'Help'
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."
I just finished reading True Grit. That was a fun book. I've never seen either movie, so I can't compare it, but I loved the narrative voice of the book.
You definitely want to se the Coen brothers' version as they tried to keep as much of that voice as possible. It's been so long since I saw the Wayne version, I can't remember it well, though I am sure that Kim Darby did a good job with the character (despite being significantly older).
Franken,
I didn't really like Kim Darby's take on the character, having seen the movie in January. I definitely prefer the Coen brother's version of the movie to the John Wayne version. John Wayne does a pretty good job though.
when HKF asked to see what I was reading. And now won't give it back.
The big rule growing up (I was older than HKF) was that I couldn't "borrow" a parent's book to read until they were finished. Thankfully they read quickly as well. So there was usually a book to grab and devour.
Stephen and Jake used to have cage matches to get to the newest Harry Potter first.
Heh -- I'm still the fastest reader in the fam, but not by a huge margin. My mom's the slowest -- it takes her 2 WHOLE DAYS to get through a book!
If my mom or dad was being stubborn, I'd just wait till they'd gone to bed, and stay up and read whatever I was impatient to get my hot little hands on.
So when I was in Chicago, I visited Myopic Books, which I had visited with Buffistas so many years ago, and I found all four Uglies books in great condition. And since Scott Westerfeld is going to be at Comic-Con, I've been wanting to read them before then. I'm excited!
My theoretical kid would be so sad...my current book is "The Shock Doctrine" and the screwing that's in it isn't the "read the dirty bits," kind.
Well HKF's response to Cass' family bookletting rule was a combo of "you snooze you lose" and "this is really good mom. I'd tell you more but I don't want to spoil it.". Oh child of my heart. Give me back my book.
I have to think about my top three secondary worlds.