Maybe I over-identified with Joy-Hulga in college...it's hard not to, if you're me, even down to the hovering relatives saying "Honey, if you'd just *smile* more." Because I thought I had a good grip on the analysis of that story, but the things Hecubus posted...I'm not sure I remember it that way, but I'm not sure if I have a real dispute with his views or if my analytic impulse got flooded under my thrill of "OMG...She Knows What It's Like." I should read it again, now that I'm(snicker) older and wiser. Maybe I should "modernize" that one someday...make Hulga a babygoth that wears a button that says "Don't Tell Me What Kind of Day To Have!"

"OMG...She Knows What It's Like."

No doubt!

Maybe I should "modernize" that one someday...make Hulga a babygoth that wears a button that says "Don't Tell Me What Kind of Day To Have!"

Oh, that could be fun!

I'm currently reading World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks, and I have to say that it is one of the most believable speculative fiction/future history books I have ever read. I'm about half-way through, and the book hasn't hit a false note yet.

I didn't think I was creeped out by anything in it; I didn't feel uneasy or wary while reading it last night. But as I was trying to fall asleep, I kept thinking about scenes from the book, and then would try and figure out how secure our place would be during a zombie uprising. (The answer was not very comforting, let me tell you.)

Jilli, thanks for reminding me about that book! I meant to pick it up a while ago, but it slipped my mind.

Do you know if it's related to Zombie World News, or just a similar concept?

Do you know if it's related to Zombie World News, or just a similar concept?

I don't think WWZ is related to ZWN. But wow, I need to take more of a look around ZWN. Very cool!

But wow, I need to take more of a look around ZWN. Very cool!

Yes, this -- it's fabulous! I love consensual realities...

Re WWZ, I was just talking the other day with a historian friend about just how perfectly it works as an oral history.

Re WWZ, I was just talking the other day with a historian friend about just how perfectly it works as an oral history.

Apparently the audio book is fantastic; there are different people for each report/history, so it really does come across as an oral history record. I'm probably going to get it to go along with the novel.

There are 45 people in the LAPL area who've put a hold on the district's 20 copies of that book.

Darn.

Apparently the audio book is fantastic

I've heard that too. I normally don't like audiobooks, but the voices are such a big part of the book that if they got them right (and when Mel Brooks is your dad, you can make a few calls to good actors...), I can see it really adding something to the experience that just having a book read aloud doesn't usually do for me.

Loved WWZ