Was there a movie about an everyone-for-themselves fight set in a prison, also called Battle Royale?
Andersonville! (/joke for Civil War historians)
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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."
DavidS - Nov 16, 2011 2:57:55 pm PST #16867 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 2:59:06 pm PST #16868 of 28288
brillig
I don't think there were as many women slinging automatic weapons in Andersonville.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2011 2:59:52 pm PST #16869 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't think there were as many women slinging automatic weapons in Andersonville.
Maybe one nurse with a gatling gun? Okay, probably not.
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 3:02:46 pm PST #16870 of 28288
brillig
Well, alternative history is a valid genre . . .
Jessica - Nov 16, 2011 3:37:38 pm PST #16871 of 28288
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't have usually have a problem with a story that is all male, if it would be untrue to the period or written in an era when it wouldn't occur to the writer to include a woman in, for example, a combat scene. What I dislike is women whose only roles are screaming, fainting, helplessness and being rescued.
Ditto. I also prefer books with no women to books with terribly-written women. (Neither of which applies to Tolkien, but Kindle keeps telling me I'd like Ready Player One and I have to keep telling it OH FUCK NO so the topic's been on my mind.)
Aims - Nov 16, 2011 4:01:19 pm PST #16872 of 28288
Shit's all sorts of different now.
OMG HUNGER GAMES!!
That is all.
Fred Pete - Nov 17, 2011 4:32:55 am PST #16873 of 28288
Ann, that's a ferret.
There were nurses in Andersonville?
Okay. To be fair.
There were Confederate nurses in Andersonville?
I'm not a fan of war books/military history as a genre, but when I fall in love with one, I fall hard. And few, if any, war books deserve love more than McElroy's memoirs of Andersonville.
Hayden - Nov 17, 2011 8:44:52 am PST #16874 of 28288
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
In the deadly games arena, there's also that movie called Series 7: The Contenders, in which the protagonist is a pregnant woman.
Polgara - Nov 17, 2011 10:10:13 am PST #16875 of 28288
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Jessica, why no to Ready Player One? It's on my maybe list, but I don't remember hearing anything bad about it.
Jessica - Nov 17, 2011 10:28:59 am PST #16876 of 28288
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, I ranted about it right when it came out (DH got an ARC) - the main character is such a self-involved asshole, and it's written in the first person (and written terribly - if I were being charitable I'd say it's written accurately in the voice of someone who is very immature and very shallow and not very good at thinking) and The Girl Character is a two-dimensional fanboy wet dream and then there's a thing at the end where something is revealed about another character which made me literally (yes, literally) throw the book across the room. Such a MASSIVE clusterfuck of fail.
I also couldn't figure out who the book was being written to. As in, it's first person POV with a lot of asides by the main character, and I couldn't figure out for the life of me who he would be telling this story to in this way. There's a TON of exposition about the world that anyone living in that time/place would find condescending and ridiculous - he explains in excruciating detail every single fucking made-up sci-fi slang term in the book, and there's also a ton of exposition about pop culture in the 80s that I found condescending and ridiculous. So it makes no sense.