Jack's death--waaah!
Stick with the book, megan, because you next get the thrill of Laura's first train ride and then the fun of meeting Lena.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'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."
Kathy A - Jul 06, 2008 6:01:28 pm PDT #6612 of 28379
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Steph L. - Jul 06, 2008 6:20:25 pm PDT #6613 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jack's death--waaah!
I did a total double take here, because one of the characters in Superpowers is named Jack.
And for how long are we whitefonting plotty stuff in Superpowers, or really any new release? I disremember.
BECAUSE IF JACK DIES (or any of the Superpowers kids) I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
Hil R. - Jul 06, 2008 8:04:23 pm PDT #6614 of 28379
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Stick with the book, megan, because you next get the thrill of Laura's first train ride and then the fun of meeting Lena.
And watching them build the railway!
Sometime in high school, I remember reading a poem about an Arab girl named Leila. (At least, I think that's what her name was.) Something about her sitting in a garden, maybe? It was by a well-known poet, and I think from sometime around 1920 or so. Anyone know what poem I'm talking about? Google is giving me no help.
Kathy A - Jul 07, 2008 6:40:21 am PDT #6615 of 28379
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
And watching them build the railway!
Don't forget the scariness when the railroad workers decide that they want their pay earlier than contracted and try using mob force to get Pa to fork over the money, which Ma has hidden in the flour barrel.
megan walker - Jul 07, 2008 6:49:39 am PDT #6616 of 28379
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hil, is it this? [link]
Hil R. - Jul 07, 2008 8:26:06 pm PDT #6617 of 28379
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
No, that's not it. Thanks, though. I think the poet was British, but maybe American.
meara - Jul 08, 2008 1:57:46 pm PDT #6618 of 28379
Hmm. I just read Three Men In A Boat...and I must say, it's....incredibly random? i should've thought to bring "To Say Nothing of the Dog" (Connie Willis) and see if having read the former now informs the latter at all, but I guess that'll have to wait (I'm on a trip). I can certainly see the similarities, but must ask--is it just my edition, or is it random, or what on earth does the ghost stories at the end have to do with the rest of the book?? Good grief, man!
So bizarre.
Steph L. - Jul 08, 2008 2:16:43 pm PDT #6619 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just finished Superpowers, and I think it broke me a little. Man.
Really good stuff. Of the reviews I've read, I'm surprised that none of them mention how, just like in comics, some of the action that I consider important actually took place "between the panels." Nicely done.
And I'd say that the book stopped being about superheroes (if it ever really *was*) about halfway through.
One of the only things I didn't like -- and this is really no fault of the book -- was that knowing that the timeline of the book encompasses 9/11 gave me this inexorable sense of dread. Because I knew (and surely this is no spoiler; we *know* the author, and he wouldn't pull such a hackneyed trick) that nothing corny like the superheroes *stopping* the terrorist attacks would happen. And that meant that the alternative was big pain coming right at them.
amych - Jul 08, 2008 2:18:17 pm PDT #6620 of 28379
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And that meant that the alternative was big pain coming right at them.
::nodnodnod::
And at us, oh ye gods.
Steph L. - Jul 08, 2008 2:32:26 pm PDT #6621 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And that meant that the alternative was big pain coming right at them.
::nodnodnod::
And, see, in the run up to Nightwing #93 (was it 93?), when I could see all the pain gathered ready to whammy Dick, and I knew there was no other way it could have gone down, it still didn't give me the *dread* it did with Superpowers. Which is a credit, I think, to Knut. Because I don't worry about Dick Grayson, but I do worry about the All-Stars.