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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
I brought...you...Heineken...you bastard..."
Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!
...wait, this isn't the Movies thread, is it?
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.
That sounds about right.
And aaargh, Wikipedia reminds me that they are REMAKING it for some godforsaken reason.
They're remaking Ice Castles ferchrissakes.
They're remaking Ice Castles ferchrissakes.
They are doing that IN MY TOWN! Oh, the humanity!
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.
for CJ, I'd also recommend D'Auliere's which is probably more kid friendly than Hamilton's mythology. D'Auliere's is often in middle school libraries.
But Odysseus is such a jerk.
And SUCKED a leader.
I'm thinking of the must reads before entering my AP class next year. I think, for what I do, it's these things you need before English Lit makes sense:
1. The Bible
2. The Odyssey
3. The Aeneid
4. The Inferno.
That might be my summer reading list.