A new installment of my favorite popcorn read paranormal series was released! Kim Harrison's The Outlaw Demon Wails. I devoured it last night, and I've got to say I'm impressed. Just as high a HSQ as the last book, but in different ways.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'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."
Atropa - Mar 12, 2008 1:03:28 pm PDT #5204 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Susan W. - Mar 13, 2008 8:36:52 am PDT #5205 of 28344
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My library holds list got out of control again. I really must stop requesting anything and everything that sounds even mildly interesting. On my weekly library run this evening I will be picking up:
DAUGHTER OF YORK, by Anne Easter Smith
THE FIRST DAY OF THE BLITZ, SEPTEMBER 7, 1940, by Peter Stansky
GENGHIS: BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE, by Conn Iggulden
THE KING'S COAT, by Dewey Lambdin
NUNS: A HISTORY OF CONVENT LIFE 1450-1700, by Silvia Evangelisti
SUPERCAPITALISM, by Robert Reich
VAGABOND, by Bernard Cornwell
THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY, by A.J. Jacobs
And that's assuming that AFTER THE ICE: A GLOBAL HUMAN HISTORY 20,000-5000 B.C., which is listed as in transit, doesn't show up today. There's no way I'll have time to read them all within three weeks, especially since I still have four books from last week I haven't started yet. So I really hope some of them turn out boring. And I could probably renew the Cornwell and the Lambdin if I had to, since neither are new releases. But my eyes are always so much bigger than my stomach when it comes to books.
lisah - Mar 13, 2008 9:38:34 am PDT #5206 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
This reminds me of an NYU class called "Cinema and Literature" that I took my first year of grad school..."How do you adapt that?!? You can't. I don't believe in the concept of "cinema and literature"!
Oh! grrrrrr!!!
I had a class in film school...I can't remember which one...where the teacher told us that there are no great film adaptations of great books. There are only great films adapted from mediocre books and mediocre films adapted from great books.
Discuss!
Dana - Mar 13, 2008 9:41:14 am PDT #5207 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I think some of the Jane Austen books and movies would disprove that right out.
Tom Scola - Mar 13, 2008 9:41:18 am PDT #5208 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
So is To Kill a Mockingbird a mediocre book or a mediocre film?
amych - Mar 13, 2008 9:42:08 am PDT #5209 of 28344
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Discuss!
Hmm... how 'bout, prof is an overgeneralizing tool who's way too easily impressed by his own rhetorical tricks?
a.k.a. "the plural of chiasmus is not data"
lisah - Mar 13, 2008 10:01:53 am PDT #5210 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
I think some of the Jane Austen books and movies would disprove that right out.
Were there any good film adaptations of Austen books before 1990?
Even so:
So is To Kill a Mockingbird a mediocre book or a mediocre film?
Kind of proves professor was a generalizing ass.
Nutty - Mar 13, 2008 10:11:04 am PDT #5211 of 28344
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I read a whole book on the topic, several years ago, and the classic example disproving that thesis is The French Lieutenant's Woman, which is a film arty enough that it can't even be shot down on snooty anti-populist grounds. (The book also brought up whether Apocalypse Now is really an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, and if it is, whether it's a successful one, and in the process what "successful adaptation" means.)
meara - Mar 13, 2008 10:50:32 am PDT #5212 of 28344
Ooh, let me know if the nuns book is good, Susan--that sounds interesting.
Gris - Mar 13, 2008 11:03:17 am PDT #5213 of 28344
Hey. New board.
And Breakfast at Tiffany's - mediocre book, mediocre movie, or mediocre both? (Personally, I think it is a very good book and a very good movie. "Great" may be a word reserved for things that are less fun. At least that's how I've always seen it interpreted.)