I read Clash of the Titans in elementary school. It was a trip and a half. I saw the movie years later and it wasn't at all how I imagined it would be.
THERE WAS A BOOK???
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2009 2:20:28 pm PDT #8728 of 28427
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Miracleman - Apr 07, 2009 2:20:45 pm PDT #8729 of 28427
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
It'd be like MM and Pete and Sean and ND moved onto your couch for a decade to play Halo. You'd lose it too.
1) I cook and clean. Ask Aims.
2) I suck at Halo.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2009 2:40:59 pm PDT #8730 of 28427
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You want to point at the asshole in that story, point at Agamemmnon.
::points at Agamemmnon. points behind back at Achilles::
I cook and clean. Ask Aims.
Yes, but would you cook and clean at Dana's house?
I suck at Halo.
But you play it, right? So my belabored analogy still holds.
Really it's more the ten years than the players, though.
Miracleman - Apr 07, 2009 2:47:50 pm PDT #8731 of 28427
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I suck at Halo.
But you play it, right? So my belabored analogy still holds.
Actually, no I don't.
Because I suck at it.
Steph L. - Apr 07, 2009 2:49:49 pm PDT #8732 of 28427
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I brought...you...Heineken...you bastard..."
Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!
...wait, this isn't the Movies thread, is it?
le nubian - Apr 07, 2009 2:58:13 pm PDT #8733 of 28427
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
P-C -
yes! There was a book!
although, now that I've spent some time googling this very issue, I think it was a novelization of the movie. Alan Dean Foster (author of the book) is a well known novelator.
Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2009 3:04:10 pm PDT #8734 of 28427
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That sounds about right.
And aaargh, Wikipedia reminds me that they are REMAKING it for some godforsaken reason.
Barb - Apr 07, 2009 3:05:12 pm PDT #8735 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
They're remaking Ice Castles ferchrissakes.
Sue - Apr 07, 2009 3:09:15 pm PDT #8736 of 28427
hip deep in pie
They're remaking Ice Castles ferchrissakes.
They are doing that IN MY TOWN! Oh, the humanity!
Kate P. - Apr 07, 2009 5:06:21 pm PDT #8737 of 28427
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Can y'all give me titles of young adult novels where the lead character is either just out of high school or in college proper?
Two that came to mind right away are both about guys in the summer after high school: Catch by Will Leitch, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You by Peter Cameron (both very good, btw).
A few of Ellen Wittlinger's books are in that age/time period. I forget which one I'm thinking of, but one of her more recent ones is sort of a sequel/follow up (focusing on different characters) and the main character is taking a year off after high school/before college.
That's Love and Lies, the sequel to Hard Love.