I'll have to pick that up and have a read, if I can find it.
;) If you have trouble, you can take a look at the introduction - it was in my anthropology reader from last semester. Or, I could borrow it from our library.
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My reaction, also. I wonder if he'll be smothered in alien make up...
Great NYT article on HP. The bit about the romanticized public school life is especially spot-on, I think, as well as JKR's attempts to sometimes democratize it. I love HP but I feel like sometimes its fans can be too entangled with this American/bourgeois/colonial desire to become part of a more rarefied world that-- ugh. Too much Anglophilia makes me crazy.
Then again, I've tried reading a lot of more down-to-earth modern fantasy in the past, like Charles de Lint or Emma Bull, but I have to admit that Harry's rarefied world is more compelling.
Excellent post today. Russell Crowe as a Trek villain! I don't know about that one. But if it means they're trying for a more muscular, spit-and-leather sort of Trek experience rather than the coolly calculating Trek villains of the past (the Borg, btw, ARE SO BORING), I'll sign up.
That's why I love Roald Dahl. His books make childrenhood seem magical without taking the nasty bits out of it.
I don't understand the love for War of the Oaks, I really don't. Maybe I just don't "get" urban fantasy - that is a possibility. Or maybe you really have to know the place. I'd love to read urban fantasy set in contemporary Shanghai. :)
a more muscular, spit-and-leather sort of Trek experience
Oh my god! You can just imagine the costumes at Comic-Con 2008!!
I don't understand the love for War of the Oaks, I really don't. Maybe I just don't "get" urban fantasy - that is a possibility. Or maybe you really have to know the place.
Urban fantasy sounds good as a concept, but is unfailingly boring in execution.
As for War for the Oaks, I thought it was the bee's knees when I read it, but now I'm like... okay, it reads like a convention-going fan's wish-fulfillment fantasy, complete with wannabe-rockstar-dom, a bland setting (sorry, Minneapolis), and then blended together with my least favorite cliche of all, pan-Celtic faeries.
Tolkien's appendices: more compelling and less dorky.
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Sounds interesting. I'll have to pick that up and have a read, if I can find it.
Russell Crowe is top of the studio's wish list to play the villain in J. J. Abram's Star Trek movie.
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;) If you have trouble, you can take a look at the introduction - it was in my anthropology reader from last semester. Or, I could borrow it from our library.
Er?
My reaction, also. I wonder if he'll be smothered in alien make up...
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ER?! D:
Hum. I may take you up on that offer of the intro at some point.
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Then again, I've tried reading a lot of more down-to-earth modern fantasy in the past, like Charles de Lint or Emma Bull, but I have to admit that Harry's rarefied world is more compelling.
Excellent post today. Russell Crowe as a Trek villain! I don't know about that one. But if it means they're trying for a more muscular, spit-and-leather sort of Trek experience rather than the coolly calculating Trek villains of the past (the Borg, btw, ARE SO BORING), I'll sign up.
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I don't understand the love for War of the Oaks, I really don't. Maybe I just don't "get" urban fantasy - that is a possibility. Or maybe you really have to know the place. I'd love to read urban fantasy set in contemporary Shanghai. :)
a more muscular, spit-and-leather sort of Trek experience
Oh my god! You can just imagine the costumes at Comic-Con 2008!!
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Urban fantasy sounds good as a concept, but is unfailingly boring in execution.
As for War for the Oaks, I thought it was the bee's knees when I read it, but now I'm like... okay, it reads like a convention-going fan's wish-fulfillment fantasy, complete with wannabe-rockstar-dom, a bland setting (sorry, Minneapolis), and then blended together with my least favorite cliche of all, pan-Celtic faeries.
Tolkien's appendices: more compelling and less dorky.
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