I don’t believe that anything lasts forever

[musesfool]

I have spent my morning so far in a tizzy of scheduling and rescheduling. I have bent Outlook to my will and all bow before me.

Or something, anyway.

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Wednesday reading meme:

What I just finished reading

Literally, this morning on the subway, I just finished This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, which is a collection of related short

Comments

[musesfool]

I feel that about most Iron Man related things. <3

I just want them to be the Nick and Nora of the movieverse. Is that too much to ask?

[magnetic_pole]

I hope that in whatever Diaz writes next, there is much less focus on someone being a player-player and more on other, more interesting things. Because he's a fantastic writer.

You always say such sensible things, V. :) M.

[musesfool]

I try. *g*

[starfishchick]

I have many of the same concerns with you about IM3 and I haven't even read the comics so I have no idea what to expect!!!

(And man did I not like IM2.)

[musesfool]

IM2 took everything fun and charming about the first movie and leached it away, replacing it with shrill action scenes and a half-baked villain. It could have been a really good movie about Tony facing his own mortality (again) but no.

I haven't read any Iron Man solo comics, mostly because I tend to want to groinpunch comics!Tony within about five panels every time. *hands* I just know the outlines of the stories from the internet.

[anutty1]

Yay! Someone who's read Diaz and gets that he's trying to show how miserable you'll make yourself if you try to live the 'player' life and not, you know, trying to celebrate that lifestyle. I loved those stories because I felt they were the opposite of misogyny from the author; Yunior is a fool, the reader knows it, Diaz knows it, it's Yunior who doesn't get it.

[musesfool]

I felt they were the opposite of misogyny from the author; Yunior is a fool, the reader knows it, Diaz knows it, it's Yunior who doesn't get it.

Exactly. I found all of the women way more sympathetic than Yunior or any of the men.