These days you can get away with a lot of violence in a PG-13 movie as long as there's no nudity or swearing. As a parent, I dearly wish it were the other way around.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Jessica - Mar 20, 2012 2:38:18 pm PDT #18259 of 28287
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jesse - Mar 20, 2012 2:44:38 pm PDT #18260 of 28287
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You can say the F word once in a PG-13, as long as it's not about sex, I believe. Like maybe my favorite single moment from X Men: First Class.
Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2012 2:50:56 pm PDT #18261 of 28287
brillig
War Horse was PG-13. Not a lot of gore, but they went to brutality places I was surprised by.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2012 4:15:43 pm PDT #18262 of 28287
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
sigh ... reminds me of the YouTube video of the Twilight fan who was sobbing uncontrollably because another writer had not been sufficiently appreciative of the books. She attributed it to jealousy - after all, who is this Stephen King guy?
To be fair, at this point it's probably a toss of the coin whether Meyer or King has inflicted more horror upon the world. He might be jealous.
Toddson - Mar 21, 2012 5:02:23 am PDT #18263 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
'cause Stephen King's an obscure, struggling writer, envying her her success? I was amused that the distraught fan never seemed to have heard of him.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2012 6:03:30 am PDT #18264 of 28287
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
On a tangential note, we finally have an answer to the question of just how bad a horror-themed book would need to be to NOT get the ubiquitous complimentary quote from King that appeared on the cover of just about every genre book I read in the 80s and 90s.
erikaj - Mar 21, 2012 8:16:49 am PDT #18265 of 28287
Always Anti-fascist!
is that the same one who finished off talking about men and strong women and made me feel all "You say that word a lot...I don't think it means what you think it means." Matt, I finally read "On Writing" and it appears that possibly over-blurbing, while not a symptom as such, coincides neatly with his cocaine and heavy drinking days...maybe he'd like to take some of them back, too.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2012 8:23:15 am PDT #18266 of 28287
brillig
There's a scene in a Castle episode where Rick Castle has been shipped a box full of books to review, and he's sitting at the kitchen counter holding them to his forehead a la The Great Carnac and saying things like "A tour-de-force of terror" and "A fabulous page-turner."
askye - Mar 21, 2012 9:03:52 am PDT #18267 of 28287
Thrive to spite them
I was at the weekly library book sale yesterday and I saw Blue Adept and another Peirs Anthony book. You can get a whole bag of books for $3, so I found a bunch I wanted and got those 2. And then went home and threw them in the trash.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2012 9:26:14 am PDT #18268 of 28287
brillig
There wasn't a recycling place nearby?