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[shadowkat]

1. You ever wish that you could read the spoilers for your own life - as if you were a character in a book and if you could just leap a few chapters ahead and see if...Or hop in a magical blue police phone box and whiz ahead five years, see what's up, then whiz back again?

Probably a good idea that we can't do that right? Because...spoilers.
But somedays, like today, I sort of wish I could..make life less worrisome.

2. Peeked out of mild curiousity at Scott Allie's latest and somewhat inept attempt to comedically induce folks to read the S9 Buffy comics. Dude, I wanted to say, if S8 turned them off...it's highly unlikely they are going to stick around for s9. Actually, after I read his 10 reasons...I think he knows that and has given up on those of us who got turned off by s8 (which is admittedly a gross understatement) or are no longer interested (also an understatement) and is simply talking to the fans remaining (and yes, shocking, I know, S8 actually had fervent fans - there's at least 9 who will most likely stumble across this entry.) So I read the 10 reasons and I thought, hmmm - more like 10 reasons NOT to read the comics, well except for maybe reason #2 - Whedon writes S9. (Depending of course on how you feel about Whedon and how reliable you think Allie is. I'll spare you my feelings on both.).

3. Bret Easton Ellis is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his controversial 1980s satire of privileged metrosexual Wall Street/American white guys entitled American Psycho. Which, while humorous in places - there's a nifty chapter on consumerism and capitalism gone insane with all the branding, it also has to be the most sadistic and misogynist novel that I've ever read. If you are at all curious do yourselves a favor - skip the book and rent Lizzie Borden's Mary Harron's movie of the same name, starring Christian Bale.(ETA: I keep confusing Mary Harron with Lizzie Borden who directed Love Crimes, not sure why.) It's funnier and cuts out all the nasty bits.[ETA: Basically he's just a deranged ax murderer and not a graphic serial rapist and female genitilia mutilator like he is in the book - some men are just afraid of the female vagina or maybe they just want one?] A perfect example of where the movie adaptation is 100% better than it's source material. The fact that Easton Ellis saw the book as autobiographical in some respects and identified heavily with the lead character - makes me wonder about his attitude towards women. I'm guessing being the son (or is it step-son?) or Gloria Steinman did not have a positive effect? (ETA: Per the comments, I confused Ellis with Christian Bale who merely portrayed the lead role in the film - Steinman is Bale's stepmother. Ellis is a misogynistic pig all on his own. Apologies for the confusion.) (There's a sadistic/misogynistic scene in that book that I truly wish I did not remember and motivated me to get rid of it. This scene basically defines the words squick, sadism and misogyny. I think I gave it to a former friend who wasn't bugged by stuff like that. But I considered burning it.)

4. Am considering getting Feast of Crows and Dance of Dragons for Kindle - easier to read or rather easier to lug around. Although not sure why I insist on torturing myself. You have to be a bit of a masochinist to read these books folks, either that or a sadist. Martin does things to his characters that would give Stanley Kubrick a run for his money (forget Stephen King - King is actually sort of nice in comparison, so for that matter is Joss Whedon.) Talk about your violent karmic universes. Will state, that the tv series version of Game of Thrones is actually less violent than the books, and easier to watch, not to mention a lot more enjoyable and a lot less painful - so I have hope for future seasons. Then again, of the books? Game of Thrones was the cheeriest and lightest and least violent and gory.

Okay back to work. It's sort of slow today. Can't you tell?

Comments

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

It's funny because I think some of the character arcs actually are hopeful and I find the books more bittersweet than relentlessly grim. Then again I love Joe Abercrombie and he makes GRRM look like a bed of roses sometimes. He also has a wonderful grim humor.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing being the son (or is it step-son?) or Gloria Steinman did not have a positive effect?
Actually Christian Bale was Gloria's stepson.

On September 3, 2000, at age 66, Steinem married David Bale,[1] father of actor Christian Bale. The wedding was performed at the home of her friend Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.[38] Steinem and Bale were married for only three years before he died of brain lymphoma on December 30, 2003, at age 62.[39]

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

At this point I read Allie stuff to laugh at the inept marketing.

And Re: GoT, I had to laugh in the book discussion thread when someone posted something like "And ____ happens, and I wonder about _____, and of course a 100,000 peasants are raped ad slaughtered in the background"

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Lizzie Borden's movie of the same name

I think you mean Mary Harron. Lizzie Borden, like Patrick Bateman, was an alleged axe murderer. :) Personally I love the book, though I can understand why a lot of people find it disagreeable. I'd like to think it takes on a bit of a different flavour after BEE came out, but it's definitely a pretty nasty piece of work.

Whedon writes S9

Right now, yeah. Of course, then he'll be busy and farm it out to Allie as he did with Season 8, but they'll still print his name on every cover.