I have that CD. I don't listen to it anywhere near enough.
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
§ ita § - Oct 04, 2007 6:12:02 am PDT #4143 of 28222
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Emily - Oct 04, 2007 6:23:14 am PDT #4144 of 28222
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, I know. I'd happily listen to him read the phone book. But I can't listen to it without a bit of "yeah, but..."
On the other hand, I can't find anything on the Web to give evidence of what Jen was saying, and I can't remember it well enough to repeat it. So never mind...
Aims - Oct 04, 2007 6:58:25 am PDT #4145 of 28222
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She had a rant about it in her LJ, didn't she? I remembered it after you mentioned it.
Anne W. - Oct 05, 2007 2:59:09 am PDT #4146 of 28222
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I wasn't sure whether to put this in Literary or Movies, but I am pleased to report that The Seeker, the movie once known as The Dark is Rising (but apparently the title of the book it was based upon was jettisoned along with 90% of the plot and 100% of the characterization), is getting panned.
sumi - Oct 05, 2007 4:20:04 am PDT #4147 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
You know, I wish that the BBC had made a nice mini-series out of it instead of this movie stuff.
Anne W. - Oct 05, 2007 4:15:41 pm PDT #4148 of 28222
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Oh, very much so, sumi. A miniseries would have been perfectly suited for the pace of the book and would have allowed us to wallow in its mood and atmosphere.
Strega - Oct 05, 2007 5:26:02 pm PDT #4149 of 28222
Normally I understand when changes made for movie adaptations of books. But in this case, it really does sound... well, awful. Some changes for crass commercialism are to be expected, but when I actually went and read about some of what they're doing... Yeesh. It sounds like a really bad movie, quite apart from it being an adaptation only in the loosest sense.
I'm tempted to tell my mom all about it, because she loved the books too (and probably reread them more recently than I did) and I find it adorable when she gets her righteous indignation on.
Polter-Cow - Oct 07, 2007 9:27:54 pm PDT #4150 of 28222
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
New book recommendation: I Am the Messenger.
Hil R. - Oct 08, 2007 10:10:51 pm PDT #4151 of 28222
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Alan Rickman reads Sonnet 130
Gah.
collapses
revives a bit to ask question
Anyone have recommendations for good spy novels? I've just given up on Daniel Silva -- I liked the first bunch of books in the Gabriel Allon series, but the last few have been way over-the-top in the political anvils, and the "lesson" of this latest one seemed to be "Anyone who doesn't think that Muslim radicals are going to take over Europe in the next few decades is hopelessly naive." And, well, no. I've been wanting to read the James Bond books. Anything else you'd recommend?
And on a similar note, I'm in the middle of The Big Sleep and really liking it. Where should I start for more mysteries from that period?
DavidS - Oct 09, 2007 5:21:21 am PDT #4152 of 28222
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where should I start for more mysteries from that period?
There are a lot of Red Harvest fans around here.
Spy novels: I'm sure ita has a long list. Depends on whether you want to go towards the literary end with LeCarre or Graham Greene or the pulpier Bond end. I think the Frederic Forsyth books are very good: The Odessa File, Day of the Jackal.