Personally, I completely missed that Rue and Thresh were black in the book, but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
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Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2012 8:09:37 am PDT #19037 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
sj - Mar 26, 2012 8:12:32 am PDT #19038 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That Jezebel article makes me sick.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2012 8:13:27 am PDT #19039 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
>but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
Hee!
It took me a chapter to pick up that Buck in The Call of the Wild was a dog because I misread something.
sj - Mar 26, 2012 8:17:56 am PDT #19040 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don't usually pick up on physical descriptions in books either, but the second I saw Rue on screen I was even sadder for her death. She is one of the cutest kids ever.
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2012 8:19:50 am PDT #19041 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
She is one of the cutest kids ever.
Yeah.
(Am sad now.)
Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2012 8:20:12 am PDT #19042 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Every time she was peeking out from behind something! So adorable.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2012 8:21:22 am PDT #19043 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow. I am disgusted by those twitterers.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2012 8:55:39 am PDT #19044 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The teenage girls that were at my showing were scary.
Totally going back in time, but I will never forget seeing Glory in a theater full of high school kids (we went for class) and the cheering was horrible. It is not awesome when someone's head gets blown off!
JZ - Mar 26, 2012 9:04:12 am PDT #19045 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The flat-out racists are stomach-churningly horrible, but this comment on the Jezebel story just made me go, bzuh?
Am I the only one who doesn't assign a race to a character when reading a book? I mean, if the author states clearly that the character is, say, Indian, I will picture the character as Indian. Other than that, everyone is a race neutral character in my head.
I mean, when reading Harry Potter, I didn't even picture Cho Chang as Asian. I just don't think about race when reading books.
Entirely aside from the fact that in my mind this person sounds exactly like Stephen Colbert ("People tell me I'm white, and I take their word for it, because I don't see race"), it just feels so discouraging. Why the fuck even bother writing anything but a big long string of dialogue? Are there really and truly readers who don't just miss the nuances of extra descriptors, they regard them as pure filler and dump them down the memory hole as soon as they've passed across their eyeballs?
erikaj - Mar 26, 2012 9:12:26 am PDT #19046 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Writing long strings of dialogue would be fine with me...well, me and Elmore Leonard. I suspect everyone else would be slightly put out.(But you can still tell what race Elmore Leonard's people are, and which one will be Delroy Lindo in the adaptation so...) Somehow, I missed Katniss' olive skin, but I must confess that book bummed me out so maybe I wasn't careful about it.