That movie was pretty bad. I recommend reading the play instead.
Thanks for the link to the Annotated Tam Lin on the wayback machine! I couldn't help but notice that for some reason the line "Without gold and women, there would be no damnation" is missing its annotation. That's from Revenger's Tragedy! I played the Duchess in college... I was excited to audition for the play because I knew of it from Tam Lin. ;)
This might be a good time to read Fire & Hemlock if you haven't already. I know a ton of DWJ fans for whom that's exactly the kind of book you describe, something they find something new in every time they read it. And it's a Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer retelling! It keeps getting mentioned in DWJ tributes and I feel like I should pick it up again myself.
Books I love to reread -- Gullstruck Island by Hardinge (in the US it's The Lost Conspiracy), the Hunger Games Series, and The Book Thief are three that I was compelled to return to and suspect I will be again. But really it's more authors I love to reread, choosing whichever text I'm in the mood for; DWJ, Lloyd Alexander, Bujold, Austen, Dickens. For all, they have the pleasure of familiarity when I reread them, yet I also discover something new in them every time.
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Thanks for the link to the Annotated Tam Lin on the wayback machine! I couldn't help but notice that for some reason the line "Without gold and women, there would be no damnation" is missing its annotation. That's from Revenger's Tragedy! I played the Duchess in college... I was excited to audition for the play because I knew of it from Tam Lin. ;)
This might be a good time to read Fire & Hemlock if you haven't already. I know a ton of DWJ fans for whom that's exactly the kind of book you describe, something they find something new in every time they read it. And it's a Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer retelling! It keeps getting mentioned in DWJ tributes and I feel like I should pick it up again myself.
Books I love to reread -- Gullstruck Island by Hardinge (in the US it's The Lost Conspiracy), the Hunger Games Series, and The Book Thief are three that I was compelled to return to and suspect I will be again. But really it's more authors I love to reread, choosing whichever text I'm in the mood for; DWJ, Lloyd Alexander, Bujold, Austen, Dickens. For all, they have the pleasure of familiarity when I reread them, yet I also discover something new in them every time.