Several Things
Thing 1: I HEARD YOU LIKE HORROR STORIES SO I PUBLISHED YOU SOME HORROR STORIES
Several of the books I've been working on at Tachyon are now for sale! You should go buy them, because they are awesome and it supports me.
We've got The Best of Joe R. Lansdale which is exactly what it sounds like. Lansdale is a horror writer who's style is kinda like Mark Twain if Mark Twain killed off a lot of people in gruesome detail. His stuff has been on Masters of Horror ("Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"), and this collection also has "Bubba Ho-Tep", the novella the movie is based on. Elvis versus a mummy--you know you wanna read that.
For Horror across the board, there's Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, which is an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow. She's famous for being a horror expert, and rightly so. It's got Stephen King and Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and George R. R. Martin, and lots of others so the chances of you not finding something in this book to like have got to be in the negative percents.
And finally, there's The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, which is not horror but features lots of monsters that could kill you, so there's that. It is A) funny, B) illustrated, C) Approved by your local Rabbi, and D) only like twelve bucks so frankly I don't know why you wouldn't have this one already.
Oh! And speaking of Kosher Guide, check out this website I made for it.!
Thing 2: How to Train Your Dragon
I saw this one on a "I feel like going to the movies!" day, where I saw Percy Jackson and HTTYD at two different theaters in one day by myself because I was IN THE MOOD AND SUCK IT TO PEOPLE WHO WONT GO WITH ME.
Anyway, it was fantastic! I feel bad this movie has the Dreamworks stigma, because I know people who have dismissed it on that front, because this movie was fantastic! It was so much fun, a real adventure story, and the best movie take on dragons in a looooong time (thank God they didn't try to make them talk!). The animation was actually very impressive. The story was well pace, and the elements well balanced. They didn't try to make this a straight comedy, really its an adventure story with humor in the beginning and an appropriately serious climax. Everything comes from the characters, which are fully realized and believable. Love Love LOVE.
Thing 3: This is by far the best description of ebook readers I have ever read, courtesy of Tycho from Penny Arcade:
"When the device runs out of power your "book" ceases to exist. It retains the gaudy and absurd physicality so common with objects, but all the purpose has leaked out. The unbook you have left becomes a lady of impenetrable chastity."
Several of the books I've been working on at Tachyon are now for sale! You should go buy them, because they are awesome and it supports me.
We've got The Best of Joe R. Lansdale which is exactly what it sounds like. Lansdale is a horror writer who's style is kinda like Mark Twain if Mark Twain killed off a lot of people in gruesome detail. His stuff has been on Masters of Horror ("Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"), and this collection also has "Bubba Ho-Tep", the novella the movie is based on. Elvis versus a mummy--you know you wanna read that.
For Horror across the board, there's Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, which is an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow. She's famous for being a horror expert, and rightly so. It's got Stephen King and Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and George R. R. Martin, and lots of others so the chances of you not finding something in this book to like have got to be in the negative percents.
And finally, there's The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, which is not horror but features lots of monsters that could kill you, so there's that. It is A) funny, B) illustrated, C) Approved by your local Rabbi, and D) only like twelve bucks so frankly I don't know why you wouldn't have this one already.
Oh! And speaking of Kosher Guide, check out this website I made for it.!
Thing 2: How to Train Your Dragon
I saw this one on a "I feel like going to the movies!" day, where I saw Percy Jackson and HTTYD at two different theaters in one day by myself because I was IN THE MOOD AND SUCK IT TO PEOPLE WHO WONT GO WITH ME.
Anyway, it was fantastic! I feel bad this movie has the Dreamworks stigma, because I know people who have dismissed it on that front, because this movie was fantastic! It was so much fun, a real adventure story, and the best movie take on dragons in a looooong time (thank God they didn't try to make them talk!). The animation was actually very impressive. The story was well pace, and the elements well balanced. They didn't try to make this a straight comedy, really its an adventure story with humor in the beginning and an appropriately serious climax. Everything comes from the characters, which are fully realized and believable. Love Love LOVE.
Thing 3: This is by far the best description of ebook readers I have ever read, courtesy of Tycho from Penny Arcade:
"When the device runs out of power your "book" ceases to exist. It retains the gaudy and absurd physicality so common with objects, but all the purpose has leaked out. The unbook you have left becomes a lady of impenetrable chastity."