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Feb. 12th, 2019 08:57 pm1. Every new TV pilot in the works
Hmmm...outside of the fact that I don't think we need any more television shows at the moment, and wow that's a lot of them..I got tired and gave up mid-read -- the following ones leaped out at me:
*Triangle
What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.
Jumped out at me -- because it sounds like a remake of Fantastic Journey which was this weird sci-fi series that aired on NBC from February - June 1977.
The series concerns a family and their associates who charter a boat out into the Caribbean for a scientific expedition. After an encounter in the area of the Bermuda Triangle with an unnatural green cloud, the group find themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious uncharted island from which they are unable to escape.
Anyone else remember it? Probably not. My parents were into wildly obscure television series in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, I got used to series I loved being cancelled very quickly.
Also...
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2. I'm with oursin, can't find a common thread in Good Reads 200 Most Difficult Novels List either. For a bit, I thought it was the books you want to impress others that you read list...that is until Stephen King's Gunslinger and Gone with the Wind popped up. I can't really imagine bragging about reading either. Or Atlas Shrugged for that matter.
Good Reads is admittedly diverse in age, gender, demographics, nationality, pretty much everything. And I'm guessing they probably polled people on what their most difficult book was and tallied the points? (shrugs) People do define reading difficulty differently. Not everyone defines it in regards to the writer's style, sometimes it's the subject matter, or in the case of Little Women having seen one too many adaptations...and thinking, eh, bored now.
Sometimes I struggle to finish a book because the subject matter doesn't engage me or the style puts me off or the story irritates or annoys me to such an extent that I want to burn the book in effigy. I mean there are other reasons why I couldn't finish a book or get through it or found it difficult -- outside of just an incomphrensible writing style that would require a degree in linguistics to figure out (I'm looking at you Foucaul't Pendalum, Finnegan's Wake and well anything by Gaddis, really).
But...
IT is admittedly an odd list.
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3. It snowed then it sleeted, then it rained. Snow will be gone by tomorrow -- I hope, otherwise it's a slushy mess to walk through to and from various trains. Days like these, I envy people who drive. I much rather drive in the crap them walk in it...although definitely feel safer doing the walking. And on Thursday it will be 56 degrees again. Meanwhile Seattle got 10 inches of snow. And there are polar bears invading a Russian Fishing Village.
Hmmm...outside of the fact that I don't think we need any more television shows at the moment, and wow that's a lot of them..I got tired and gave up mid-read -- the following ones leaped out at me:
*Triangle
What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.
Jumped out at me -- because it sounds like a remake of Fantastic Journey which was this weird sci-fi series that aired on NBC from February - June 1977.
The series concerns a family and their associates who charter a boat out into the Caribbean for a scientific expedition. After an encounter in the area of the Bermuda Triangle with an unnatural green cloud, the group find themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious uncharted island from which they are unable to escape.
Anyone else remember it? Probably not. My parents were into wildly obscure television series in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, I got used to series I loved being cancelled very quickly.
Also...
( Read more... )
2. I'm with oursin, can't find a common thread in Good Reads 200 Most Difficult Novels List either. For a bit, I thought it was the books you want to impress others that you read list...that is until Stephen King's Gunslinger and Gone with the Wind popped up. I can't really imagine bragging about reading either. Or Atlas Shrugged for that matter.
Good Reads is admittedly diverse in age, gender, demographics, nationality, pretty much everything. And I'm guessing they probably polled people on what their most difficult book was and tallied the points? (shrugs) People do define reading difficulty differently. Not everyone defines it in regards to the writer's style, sometimes it's the subject matter, or in the case of Little Women having seen one too many adaptations...and thinking, eh, bored now.
Sometimes I struggle to finish a book because the subject matter doesn't engage me or the style puts me off or the story irritates or annoys me to such an extent that I want to burn the book in effigy. I mean there are other reasons why I couldn't finish a book or get through it or found it difficult -- outside of just an incomphrensible writing style that would require a degree in linguistics to figure out (I'm looking at you Foucaul't Pendalum, Finnegan's Wake and well anything by Gaddis, really).
But...
IT is admittedly an odd list.
( Read more... )
3. It snowed then it sleeted, then it rained. Snow will be gone by tomorrow -- I hope, otherwise it's a slushy mess to walk through to and from various trains. Days like these, I envy people who drive. I much rather drive in the crap them walk in it...although definitely feel safer doing the walking. And on Thursday it will be 56 degrees again. Meanwhile Seattle got 10 inches of snow. And there are polar bears invading a Russian Fishing Village.