"And I want to know my fate, if I keep up this way." (II)

[greygirlbeast]

This morning, I think Francis Ford Coppola (back in his Apocalypse Now phase), Lars von Trier, and David Lynch teamed up to direct the "nightmare." Come to think of it, those three are the likely culprits for most of my dreams. Anyway, yeah, bad morning. Dreamsickness. I thought, an hour ago, I would sit down here and write out as much of the dream

Comments

[alumiere]

I absolutely agree with you on the Hugo YA decision. How do you not give an award for writers who have such a big role in bringing new readers to the genre?

Confessions... is wonderful, and the physical object is incredible (although hard for me to read due to broken). I am especially in love with the texture/feel of the cover, it could almost be skin in my imagination.

[greygirlbeast]

How do you not give an award for writers who have such a big role in bringing new readers to the genre?

By being morons.

Confessions... is wonderful, and the physical object is incredible (although hard for me to read due to broken). I am especially in love with the texture/feel of the cover, it could almost be skin in my imagination.

Wait? What's broken? The book?

[alumiere]

No, me.

Small font and black on white/cream, heavier, memory problems make it hard for me to read physical books. I do anyway if it's something I want to hold in my hands, but I'm finding I like my tablet for things I don't have to own physical copies of.

I'm about 1/3 of the way in, on "The Melusine" (sp?) and loving the stories and the feel of the volume. But I hate that reading has become so hard for me.

[ulffriend]

I share your dissatisfaction with the vote against a YA Hugo. I've thought for a while that some of the best writing, in any area/genre that I've happened to read, is being done in the juvenile/YA market.

I wonder how much of this bias goes back to the fact that YA is a "newer" classification? There is some great Anne McCafferey work that would probably be marketed as YA now that was just "by Anne McCaffrey" when it was released (I have the original paperbacks and checked, just to be sure).

Time was that good writing was good writing...I feel a bit strangled as a reader, trying to navigate through all of the trendy stuff in any classification to try to find stuff worth reading. I find myself relying more and more on specific authors, but that feels unsatisfactory because I know that there has to be good new stuff out there.

I thought it was funny that "Among Others" won the best fiction prize, not because it wasn't a great book that was worthy of the recogniztion, but because it was obviously a YA novel.

[cavalorn]

I just started playing Shadow of the Colossus two days ago. It's evoking an emotional response I haven't felt since I was six years old and watched Ray Harryhausen monsters loom into the screen.

[greygirlbeast]

Oh, the wonders you have in store.