Books, tv, blah blah blah
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vaznettiRight. Enough whining about my RL woes, which are not really all that woeful anyway. The boiler is fixed, which is all you need to know.
I do feel vaguely odd about being practically the only person I know who is involved in HP fandom (even in a tenuous way) and not planning to rush out and buy OotP first thing tomorrow, or midnight, or whenever it comes out. I figure I'll grab a copy to read in the Blackwell's coffee shop, because I have no shame, and buy it when it appears in paperback. I have enough unwieldy hardbacks in my life.*
It's not that I don't want to read it; I just don't want to own it. I resent the hysteria, as well. Which is not meant as a slap against any of you. It's just my thing. I think I may watch the Rowling interview with Jeremy Paxman, unless we go see a movie, but that's because I've never seen Paxman do a "soft" interview, and am dying to see if he will break and start interrogating her properly.
The B.H. is still having trouble coming to terms with the end of Farscape. He wants another season. I think that this is my one great chance to get him to read fanfic, but will have to tread carefully, as he remains resistant to the notion. At some point I will almost certainly come back here for suggestions, as I don't read enough Farscape fic to know where to start. Meanwhile, because I'm slow, I've only just realized that Brookside has been canceled--or so it seems. This British soap was my chief guilty pleasure for many years, although I began to lose interest after Lindsey Corkhill gave up her life of lesbian crime. As the B.H. said, no matter how miserable you were, you could always watch Brookside for the reassurance that someone out there had an even sadder life.
*Wieldy hardbacks, that is, new Dalziel and Pascoe novels, are another matter altogether. One cannot have enough Wield in one's life.
I do feel vaguely odd about being practically the only person I know who is involved in HP fandom (even in a tenuous way) and not planning to rush out and buy OotP first thing tomorrow, or midnight, or whenever it comes out. I figure I'll grab a copy to read in the Blackwell's coffee shop, because I have no shame, and buy it when it appears in paperback. I have enough unwieldy hardbacks in my life.*
It's not that I don't want to read it; I just don't want to own it. I resent the hysteria, as well. Which is not meant as a slap against any of you. It's just my thing. I think I may watch the Rowling interview with Jeremy Paxman, unless we go see a movie, but that's because I've never seen Paxman do a "soft" interview, and am dying to see if he will break and start interrogating her properly.
The B.H. is still having trouble coming to terms with the end of Farscape. He wants another season. I think that this is my one great chance to get him to read fanfic, but will have to tread carefully, as he remains resistant to the notion. At some point I will almost certainly come back here for suggestions, as I don't read enough Farscape fic to know where to start. Meanwhile, because I'm slow, I've only just realized that Brookside has been canceled--or so it seems. This British soap was my chief guilty pleasure for many years, although I began to lose interest after Lindsey Corkhill gave up her life of lesbian crime. As the B.H. said, no matter how miserable you were, you could always watch Brookside for the reassurance that someone out there had an even sadder life.
*Wieldy hardbacks, that is, new Dalziel and Pascoe novels, are another matter altogether. One cannot have enough Wield in one's life.
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Date: 2003-06-19 02:21 am (UTC)I may, however, shamelessly beg to borrow someone's copy of it in due course *snicker*.
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Date: 2003-06-19 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-19 04:05 am (UTC)Long, brilliant and complicated "What if..." In the Company of Ghosts (http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/2/inthe.html) . Only turns into adult reading matter about 5bnK in. By that time he will either have decided it's not for him or be unable to stop reading. That's how the bastards got me, after all.
Shorter, but gen and sneaky and cruel: Written on a Thumbnail (http://mouldiwarps.shriftweb.org/stories/Thumbnail.html)
This is just funny. David Hearne, Give a Monkey A Brain (http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/4/givea.html)
Brookie is on until November, I think. They're giving it a slow agonising death.
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Date: 2003-06-19 08:54 am (UTC)Bwahaha. Ain't it the truth. The night Max sent me the first file I was up until 2 am. Simply couldn't put it down.
And we got you because we put you on the beta-team, you dope. *grin*
Thanks for the rec anyway.
V, if he doesn't like the end of Season 4, steer him towards Fialka's Reflections in a Stolen "I", which takes off after "Bringing Home the Beacon" and comes up with a season ending that both explains Aeryn and keeps all the characters recognizable. Also, plenty of other recs available here.
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Date: 2003-06-19 03:49 pm (UTC)Thanks for the recs in any case, because if he doesn't want to read them, I suspect that I will!
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Date: 2003-06-19 03:18 pm (UTC)Poor Brookside. It's truly awful, but I have a soft spot for it.
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Date: 2003-06-19 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-19 04:34 am (UTC)Last night I got to the point in The Disorderly Knights where Joleta showed her hand. And then there was the nasty little altercation between the Scotts and the Kerrs, and after that I just had to finish the book to see what happened. You were right about the lack of convenient breakpoints to put the book down. I think I finally got to bed about 1.30am. And I still have three volumes to go.
I'd forgotten about the Paxman interview, darn it. And I'm out tonight so it's already too late to do anything about setting the video for it. So I shall have to rely upon you to let me know whether he reverts to his normal interview techniques or not. :-)
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Date: 2003-06-19 08:57 am (UTC)God, I'm jealous of anyone who's just reading the LC for the first time. I was fourteen or fifteen, and I thought the series ended after Pawn in Frankincense. Oy.
(*still sniffling over Will and Wat Scott, all these years later*)
Enjoy!
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Date: 2003-06-19 09:37 am (UTC)Oh yes, but it does raise the stakes. It's one of the things that I've found is impelling me to put the world on hold and read flat out to the end once I reach a certain point in each book. You just have to know how all of those unutterably damning charges getting laid at Lymond's door are going to be answered. And who's going to survive and who isn't. (And only in some cases can you cheat and look them up on the internet.)
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Date: 2003-06-19 02:54 pm (UTC)If I recall correctly, the next reasonable stopping place is at the very end of Pawn In Frankincense. But you're in for quite a ride, before you get there. And then, the fifth has some of my favorite passages.
Like Suelac, I really envy you this first read-through, when you're just finding everything out for the first time. Although the emotional punch of Will and Wat gets me every time.
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Date: 2003-06-20 04:53 am (UTC)Oh yes. Because really, I have very little interest in what questions were asked and what answers were given. It'll just be one of a million similar Q&A sessions, and JKR has been doing the media rounds for long enough that she'll have her guarded answers down pat.
It's all about the tone of voice in which the questions are asked and whether Paxman broke out the thumbscrews. :-)
(Currently under fire in Algiers, wondering about Marthe...)
Hee
Date: 2003-06-22 08:20 am (UTC)riane, who has just started up her LJ for the sole purpose of ranting about writing, but should really go to sleep now (Monday, 1:19 am, Sydney time)
lol
Date: 2003-06-22 09:47 am (UTC)