I am about to start reading "Random Family" for my bookclub. Has anyone hear read it?

Also, I saw HP this weekend and saw a poster for the Series of Unfortunate Events movie. So Jim Carrey, who I am not generally a fan of, and the boy looked too old. As for HP. I think they did a good job about pulling lots of the extra stuff in order to keep the movie focused and moving. If I am remembering the book correctly, the only thing left out that I really missed was the explanation of the map and some discussion about animangus (sp?). Also, liked soem of the new set stuff we got to see and not sure if I liked it or not, buit so much more of this one was outside.

I'm with you, msbelle. I couldn't help but sit with a silly grin on my face for the whole movie, but I would have liked another maybe 10 minutes to further discuss the Animagi, the origin of the map, and the story of the Secret Keeper. Maybe just more time in the Shrieking Shack.

I wanted the bit at the end where Harry is explaining to the Dursleys about his escaped convicted murderer godfather who takes his welfare very seriously.

A very, very long time (probably close to two years) ago I sent my copy of Reading the Vampire Slayer out on a merry trip of the US so various Buffistas could read it. Can someone tell me where it is now? It was a fairly short list of people so I'm guessing it's vaguely near the end, and if it's sent back to the address I was using at the time, I'll never see it again.

My house.

Send me the address, and I'll send it back to you.

Thanks Plei! I sent my address to your profile email.

I'm miffed that I didn't get a Snicket trailer.

Did some people actually get a trailer? I only saw a display.

I got a Snicket trailer, with music from Edward Scissorhands, I think, which was pretty cool. I didn't recognize Jim Carrey until about halfway through it. It looked decent.

I'm reading The Well of Lost Plots at the moment (it's the third in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde) and there are some things that are really bugging me, namely the complete breakdown of logic in regards to the fictional world. I can't make any of it make sense. Are all characters Generics at "birth"? Are all books actually cobbled together in the Well of Lost Plots and them beamed out into the authors' heads, and if so, why is there still such reverence for authors if they're just taking diction from whomever it is that's actually putting the books together? Etc. etc. etc. I liked the first book largely because of the worldbuilding--the Baconian society, the Richard III/Rocky Horror Show scene, etc. But WOLP takes place almost entirely within the BookWorld, and it seems like it's just one wacky idea after another without much attempt to put them together coherently .

I got a Snicket trailer -- it was the first of 7 or 8 -- and as soon as it started, I knew what the movie was. I was by myself (though the theatre was decently full), and I clapped my hands and said "Oh, yay!"

Nobody actually switched seats to be further away from me, but I could see them thinking it.

I just finished reading Lemony Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography, and I find myself more and more annoyed, (which here means sick and tired of all the useless hints and and frustrating clues and pointless digressions but unable to stop reading the damn books despite all that), but the movie trailer did look kind of cool.