Comments | cleolinda: Where IS the Advil?

cleolinda

Where IS the Advil?

Aug 21, 2007 20:32

You know how you see a movie when you're very young, and you kind of remember key parts but not much else, so when you see it as an adult it's like you've never seen it before? Yeah. One of the Encore channels has been having a Dirty Dancing marathon today. ( I carried a watermelon? )

cloverfield, batman, conversations with my mother, movies, star trek, books, the golden age

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kismeteve August 22 2007, 02:48:01 UTC

Man, first Michael Dibdin a few months ago, now Magdalen Nabb. :(

annlarimer August 22 2007, 14:39:59 UTC

Michael Dibdin?!? Aw, nuts. He wrote the bestest, scariest Sherlock Holmes pastiche ever.

scornedsaint August 22 2007, 02:49:11 UTC

As You Like It : * * * 1/2, but not in theaters. It's on HBO instead--was it made for HBO? I thought it was going to theaters, but maybe not...

I believe it was supposed to be in theatres a year ago; there was something about it in The Reduced Shakespeare Company's book. As You Like It has never been my favorite Shakespeare comedy, so I'm not really that upset I'll be missing it.

falco_conlon August 22 2007, 02:57:53 UTC

(Hell, I just love how, at the end, Kelly Bishop's just like, "Sit down, Orbach, and let your daughter shake what I gave her.")

Me too! I'm always like "Woo! Go Emily Gilmore!"

squishysquidgy August 22 2007, 03:00:44 UTC

One in four read no books last year. Jigga WHAT?
I'd be one of the one in four, which is weird, because I used to read A LOT, but over the last couple of years, I just can't get into it at all. I have a couple of books that I've read the first few chapters of, but then I start thinking about all the other things I could be doing on the internets and do that instead, and kind of forget about the book. I keep meaning to put more time aside for reading, but I just never get around to it.

cleolinda August 22 2007, 03:34:42 UTC

I don't know, though--a lot of people quoted in the article seemed to be chronic non-readers. I went through a couple of years in college where I didn't crack a single book outside of class, and since I was taking language classes, I wasn't necessarily reading actual narratives as it was. So, I mean, I understand dry periods. But--seriously, one in four?

particle_person August 22 2007, 04:32:08 UTC

The poll data says 73±3% of adults read a book last year, and around 68 to 70% graduated high school in 2004 and 2005. As awful as that figure sounds, it probably says more about our school system then it does about how much people who can read do.

particle_person August 22 2007, 04:38:33 UTC

A nice map I found of high school graduation rates.

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komalow August 22 2007, 03:06:22 UTC

I've been getting really giddy-stupid-happy recently, too. I understand what you mean. I'm pleased about it, but also kind of like. . . what the hell am I hyped up and grinning over?