Sunday Morning Throwing Down.

[byelka58]

I promised you hot book action (not in so many words), and I am delivering - or beginning to deliver: the epic battle sequences will run into multiple posts.

2008 BOOK-OFF

The categories:

• Essay and Short Story Collections
• Colons
• Dude Books
• Ugh
• Fancy-Pants New Lit.

Comments

[gabbiana]

I always manage to mix up Horatio Alger and Horatio Hornblower, too, with maybe some Aubrey-Maturin thrown in for Russell Crowe's sake, and Horatio Nelson thrown in for reality's sake. (Russell Crowe: Not real.) Seriously, I dislike being reminded that all of British history is a mystery to me, and especially the bits involving the navy.

(Ha ha! The Ragged Dick Series. Ha ha ha ha ha.)

"I don't much like spy books, or spy movies, because when characters cross and doublecross I become confused, angry, and then bored. People like me are why Mission Impossible had to end with a man-in-helicopter-on-man-on-train fight rather than anything that made sense: we'd just realized that there were two old white guys all along, and were in no shape for a character-driven denouement."

OH MY GOD IT IS SO TRUE I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE TWO OLD WHITE GUYS UNTIL THE VERY END AND THEN IT WAS TOO LATE. Seriously, why don't movies do what Broadway plays do, and cast very different physical types for all their roles so you can tell them apart? I mean, sure, with movies you have the luxury of *close-ups* and you are supposed to be able to recognize the actors' *faces* but you know what? THAT IS A LOAD OF CRAP.

People like you make me want to quit my life and read all the time.