"What I tell you three times is true,

It's from "The Hunting Of The Snark" anyway.

drove me bugfuck, to the point where I annotated the margins.

OMGWTFMARGINS!!>?!

You appreciate the depth of my upset, I see.

Yes. Very clearly.

I've had the discs for Wonderfalls since last April. Neener. Neener.

Me too! Though I got mine a couple weeks after you did, and I had to try very very hard to stay out of the spoiler thread here because I wanted to watch the finale unspoiled (I succeeded).

I just posted some news on SaveWonderfalls -- some of the cast and crew members will be participating in a webcast on February 1st from the FOX lots (I'll be there, too!). Details about when, where and how to watch are on the site. Does anyone here post at Whedonesque? I'd like to get this news up there, but they frown on people advertising their own sites.

I'll post for you, Cranberry.

Thanks, Allyson!

I'm trying to get more details about the webcast -- they're planning it at the last minute, as usual. Word is Tracie Thoms and Katie Finneran will probably be there. I'm not sure about the others; I know they've been invited, but they're kind of scattered all over the place.

Have lots o' fun!

I found We The Living fascinating because of the context it supplied for everything else Rand wrote. I read all her fiction in one summer (along with Huxley and Orwell). I've had the bookmarks sitting 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through The Virtue of Selfishness and The Romantic Manifesto since then. I certainly don't buy into her philosophy, but I do find some of the viewpoints interesting. I've tried to forget the sexual domination issues.

Hey! Wonderfalls! Maybe I'll have DVDs sometime next week.

You guys have been greatly entertaining me with your Heinlein hate. Probably because I never bothered to read him. And I got very bored with Asimov within a few chapters, so I never particularly read him. Siddhartha was better than I expected it to be, given how many people praised it as life-changing, and who those people were, but it still didn't move me to any great heights. Ayn Rand I remember liking, when I read Anthem, but I was bored to tears within pages of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, so I never finished those. I suppose I found the concept behind Anthem really interesting, when I read it at 13, but it never inspired me to change my life or even my thinking, I just found it interesting. I find Ursula Leguin's stuff both weird and boring. I don't get T.S. Eliot, but he certainly has a way with language. Joseph Conrad does nothing for me. Heller's Catch 22 gave me a headache. Ernest Hemingway and Herman Melville fill me with hate whenever I read a couple of pages of anything either one has written. I didn't care for The Metamorphosis at all. I didn't like Crime and Punishment at all. Edith Wharton is kind of on the boring side. 1984 was kind of over the top, as was Brave New World. John Steinbeck's writing can be incredibly boring, and boring and long winded when the book is The Grapes of Wrath. Pynchon's stuff is weird. And I really have very little use for Neuromancer. Etc.

Obviously, I don't hate all literature. But I find that very often if something is recommended, I don't care for it, and I don't think it's a matter of my simply being contrary. I think a lot of books that are read at a certain time, or written in response to a certain idea, or even in response to a certain time in history, effect many people in a big way. That does not mean, however, that everyone is going to have that same response. And that is why I can happily justify not having the slightest interest in reading The Catcher in the Rye or anything Heinlein's ever written, and why I really don't recommend anything to anyone. Or if I do, I preface it with a reason of why I liked it, and a warning about what to expect.

Hmm. I wrote that like I was arguing some point, and I wasn't. It was supposed to be just an FYI, thought I'd share.