Just a quick post to say that "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" won the Hugo for Best Novel.

I am about 3/4 through with Halfway in the GraVe by Jeaniene Frost. New author to me, but I like it well enough to have already downloaded the sequel for reading tomorrow night.

Her main male character, Bones, is engaging, but is...well, kinda Spike with a conscience. I mean, really.

It gets off to a shaky start, but the prose and characterization firms up and it starts to move nicely. We shall see. I'm not in love, but it's certainly entertaining.

I'm reading cleolinda's recap of "Twilight" and I'm dying. Man, that's some funny shit.

Now I really have no interest in reading the book.

le nubian, I have to admit that I read Cleolinda's recap of the most recently released Twilight book, and despite how back the book sounds from her recap, I put the first one on hold at the library.

I feel dirty.

it has got to be a more entertaining read AFTER cleo's recap though.

Steph, if it makes you feel any better, I own the first three Twilight books. Because I consider them comedy reading now. Brainless and sparkly comedy reading.

(oooh, I should check Half-Price Books tomorrow and see if any copies of Breaking Dawn have turned up yet.)

he he ... the Sunday Washington Post had a review of Breaking Dawn that included a synopsis of the entire series. Made some good points (at least, without reading any of the books, they sounded good to me) about the "heroine" being infantalized. Said that the last book is dreadful. Also pointed out that the childbirth scene might scare some people into lifelong abstinence.

You know...I tried.

I mean, I knew Orson Scott Card and I didn't see eye-to-eye on every little thing, but I thought..."That doesn't mean Ender's Game isn't kickass, still." Just because I don't agree with a guy's political views doesn't mean I can't enjoy his works, right?

Right?

Well, until now.

In a July 24th, 2008 op-ed piece in the Mormon Times OSC has officially announced he has gone so 'round the bend, he's actually coming back from the other side...except crazy and stupid.

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I especially love the paragraph that says:

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Is it just me, or is he saying "If they let the gays marry, we should stage a bloody coup"?

I think I'm done. I may even go so far as to take all my OSC books and junk 'em. Not give them to anyone, not donate them...junk 'em.

Which is something I had previously thought I was actually physically incapable of doing.

I understand that the author is not the story and that the author's wackaloon actions should not affect my enjoyment of their works...but I just don't know that I can ever read OSC again without a foul, slick taste of "What a colossal fucktard asshat" at the back of my throat. I resent any money he ever got from my purchasing his works.

I'm so disappointed.

That's exactly what he's saying.

So as long as the marriage is between male and female - even if it's one man and 32 women (some of them underage girls who didn't want to marry) - it's OK, but if two people of the same sex want to marry it's grounds for a revolution? sigh.