I am too attached to paper books, I think. For instance, I know I'm getting this monster 700-page fashion history book from the Kyoto Costume Institute.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Holli - Dec 08, 2010 7:24:00 am PST #13119 of 28272
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Tom Scola - Dec 08, 2010 7:24:22 am PST #13120 of 28272
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Absolute Sandman.
Barb - Dec 08, 2010 7:28:25 am PST #13121 of 28272
“Not dead yet!”
My book!
Or, barring that, I suggest picking up The Sherlockian. Excellent debut.
DavidS - Dec 08, 2010 7:29:55 am PST #13122 of 28272
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You should get a Criterion box set of some kind. Maybe something out of the Eclipse series.
And then The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
DavidS - Dec 08, 2010 8:47:05 am PST #13123 of 28272
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Charles de Lint's new novel gets an intriguing review at IO9.
I wonder how that'll play in fandom after the RaceFail discussion since it features an Asian-American lead and it's set in a Latino barrio and uses elements of both Asian (dragons) and Southwestern (skinwalkers) lore.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2010 8:48:50 am PST #13124 of 28272
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, if the review is accurate, I hope it will just be the appropriation loonies bitching.
Uh, I don't have too much patience for some of the louder components of the fandom social justice brigade.
Connie Neil - Dec 08, 2010 9:14:50 am PST #13125 of 28272
brillig
I wonder how that'll play in fandom after the RaceFail discussion since it features an Asian-American lead and it's set in a Latino barrio and uses elements of both Asian (dragons) and Southwestern (skinwalkers) lore.
Is the argument that no one gets to use folklore unless they're a member of the group that originated the folklore?
Laga - Dec 08, 2010 9:32:06 am PST #13126 of 28272
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
This might be the wrong thread, but does anyone want to recommend good graphic novels?
In case it wasn't obvious: definitely not the wrong thread. Other Media is also appropriate and I'm interested to see if the recommendations differ much from there to here.
I recently read and loved The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar.
Mockingjay came in last night and I'm about halfway through. I spent the first few pages literally shouting in alarm. Collins is getting better at torturing me. The part of Katniss is now played in my brain by Kaya Scodelario. I'll be so disappointed if she doesn't get cast in the film. Hamish is sometimes played by RDJ (and I think he'd nail it) but mostly he's still the way I imagined him as I was reading Hunger Games. If I were to cast that Hamish I think I'd go with Brendan Gleeson.
Steph L. - Dec 08, 2010 9:35:59 am PST #13127 of 28272
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hamish is sometimes played by RDJ
Wow. I pretty much only picture W.C. Fields. Seriously. Though now that you say it, I can map RDJ onto Haymitch, more or less.
But then, I also somehow got it in my head that Peeta was all plump and pasty, like a teenage Hummel. And I just don't think he could have survived the games as well as he did (and I know, part of it was teamwork, but a lot of it was him kicking ass) if he were all round and soft. I think it was the idea that he's a baker's kid that made me think "oh, doughy!" Go figure.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2010 9:39:04 am PST #13128 of 28272
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
RDJ as Haymitch works for me, because I can stereotype him easily. He's good at that. But I had imagined someone more over the hill than his fine prime self.