You should watch the film adaptation of "Name of the Rose"; it's not much better, really, but it does have Sean Connery and Christian Slater in it. I believe there's even some boy-bum nudity.
Oh, come on - it's begging for SC/CS fanfic. There's even a lot of Slater calling Connery "Master." And this is old, 80s, "Kuffs" Slater - before he, um, "filled out."
Ooh, I shall make note of the ones you like and perhaps add them to my list of books that hope to eventually get around to reading.
I think you'd like "The Hunger Games" by Susan Collins, which I think I've told you about. It's YA and a good antidote to Twilight because the young heroine is awesome!
Just staring at my bookshelf now and choosing a fun rec. "A Year at the Movies" by Kevin Murphy (he goes to at least one movie every day for an entire year)
Yay for awesome young heroines, and "A Year at the Movies" sounds too fun. You'll have to let me know if you get around to reading one from my list and what you think of it!
You also read Gail Giles' What Happened to Cass McBride? And it was awesome. At least watching you read it was.
And, ooh Helen Fisher. I'm conflicted on her. You'd think I'd like her more because she's so clinical about her topic, but she's such a biological determinist.
Also, recs: - Kindred by Octavia Butler - The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold (this and Kindred are my two favorite time travel novels) - Damage by Josephine Hart - The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson - Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker - The Girl on The Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes by Carolyn Kitch - Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood - Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett - Kurt Busiek's Astro City (I think there's like four trade paperbacks out now) - Naomi Novik's Temeraire series - I think most of the translated Love Mode tankoubons are out
That's off the top of my head. Oh, and Andrew Lang's Custom and Myth is up on Project Gutenberg, and it's really interesting.
This is a great list! Good mix of genres, fiction/non-fiction, etc. Curious for an elaborate opinion of the Stephanie Meyer novels. Claire tried to explain it last summer, and it just didn't seem that interesting. Then again, I'm not in the target demographic. :-)
May I steal your list idea (without the micro-reviews--may do something else instead)? I haven't posted in, um, six months, and this is the most logical/interesting thing about which to post that doesn't involve some variation of "I'm cold and hate winter."
Heh, "steal" away. At any rate, post something! We like knowing you are alive and well, after all!
(Also, I like this calling them micro-reviews; makes me feel much cleverer! ;D I may have to steal that from you!)
Oh Twilight. They're. Oh Chris, they're just so ridiculous. I mean, I read them. I didn't pitch them across the room in disgust or anything. But they're so. And he's so obsessed with her and it's all grand, epic, doomed passion and possession and what nearly every high school girl secretly, desperately longs for a boy to think about her, and it's so very wrong, icky wrong, and frightening, too, in ways. And the dialog is a joke--all of the writing, really, is mediocre at best, and yet it is such a loved love story and it's just. Ridiculous and bewildering, with a touch of ironic awesome.
I've heard there's very little justification for his obsession with her, and that the reason his 300-year-old self is still in high school also isn't covered terribly well.
I really heartily recommend at least flipping through them. It's like...one almost becomes fond of them afterward--like you would a retarded puppy that you've watched fling itself time after time into a sliding glass door and eventually you stop wincing and just laugh fondly and condescendingly.
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I think you'd like "The Hunger Games" by Susan Collins, which I think I've told you about. It's YA and a good antidote to Twilight because the young heroine is awesome!
Just staring at my bookshelf now and choosing a fun rec.
"A Year at the Movies" by Kevin Murphy (he goes to at least one movie every day for an entire year)
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And, ooh Helen Fisher. I'm conflicted on her. You'd think I'd like her more because she's so clinical about her topic, but she's such a biological determinist.
Also, recs:
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold (this and Kindred are my two favorite time travel novels)
- Damage by Josephine Hart
- The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
- The Girl on The Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes by Carolyn Kitch
- Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
- Kurt Busiek's Astro City (I think there's like four trade paperbacks out now)
- Naomi Novik's Temeraire series
- I think most of the translated Love Mode tankoubons are out
That's off the top of my head. Oh, and Andrew Lang's Custom and Myth is up on Project Gutenberg, and it's really interesting.
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And, yes, Helen Fisher, yes. This is why she made my reread list, because just. *ponder*
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May I steal your list idea (without the micro-reviews--may do something else instead)? I haven't posted in, um, six months, and this is the most logical/interesting thing about which to post that doesn't involve some variation of "I'm cold and hate winter."
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(Also, I like this calling them micro-reviews; makes me feel much cleverer! ;D I may have to steal that from you!)
Oh Twilight. They're. Oh Chris, they're just so ridiculous. I mean, I read them. I didn't pitch them across the room in disgust or anything. But they're so. And he's so obsessed with her and it's all grand, epic, doomed passion and possession and what nearly every high school girl secretly, desperately longs for a boy to think about her, and it's so very wrong, icky wrong, and frightening, too, in ways. And the dialog is a joke--all of the writing, really, is mediocre at best, and yet it is such a loved love story and it's just. Ridiculous and bewildering, with a touch of ironic awesome.
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I'm just saying.
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20. Stephenie Meyer. New Moon. f, ...
LOL I've heard terrible things about the series and the movies, but I feel like I have to read at least one so I can fairly criticize them.
Hopefully I can give you some recs later! :)
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