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Mar. 6th, 2012 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. With any luck my last post didn't piss off half my flist. I don't think it did.
But I've noticed a lot of people have an odd way of looking at lj. It's probably the whole social medium blitz. Facebook, tumblr, twitter...we have no sense of boundaries or personal space. It boggles my mind how people can come at you and insist that you change your journal to cater to their needs. As if you're writing it for them. Uh no.
No one on lj is making money off their journals, guys and gals. At least not to my knowledge. Also there is this odd catch-22 scenario going on - you want to connect with people, share your inner-most thoughts but you are afraid you are going to scare them off. You want to find a way to express who you are, without them running for the hills. If that makes sense. If not...eh...don't tell me.
2. The Fault in Our Stars - okay, this book is the young adult equivalent of William S. Gibson's Pattern Recognition - although I think it may actually be better than Gibson's book. It reminds me a great deal of it. But it's less, how to put this? Pretentious? I like Gibson, quite a bit, but he is just a tad pretentious. You also get the feeling that Gibson is commenting on something he's not really in the midst of - after reading his interview in Paris Review, I'm positive this is the case. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars feels in some respects more real, and more relatable, more tangible in a way. It's about media obsession and the interaction between audience and creator, but it concerns books as opposed to film, and the emails. Also the main characters are two teenagers with cancer.
They've fallen in love with a book that ends abruptly - in the middle of a sentence.
They want to know what happens next. So they individually email the writer, who in writerly fashion refuses to answer their questions, but is touched that they wrote him. The interaction between these two teens and the writer reminds me a great deal of the Buffy fandom's interactions with Whedon and his writers and editors.
I'm tempted to transcribe the two letters for you...from the novel. But it's late and that's too much work. What I will state instead is this: if you loved William Gibson's Pattern Recognition - you should read John Green's The Fault in Our Stars - it's a lot funnier than Gibson's book. Gibson is a lot of things, but funny really doesn't come to mind. If you loved The Fault in Our Stars? You should read William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Both discuss the need to relate through cultural media, as an escape from hopelessness and despair. Or the use of an obsession with a cultural medium as a way to escape despair. Finding hope through someone else's even if it is fictional, especially if it is fictional, story.
Something I can oddly enough relate to.
Fascinating book so far. About a third of the way through.
3. Am considering buying the Box set of Game of Thrones tomorrow to cheer myself up. Some people go clothes shopping to cheer themselves up. I buy DVDs, CDs, and books, no wonder my apartment is so cluttered. What I should buy is a new armchair, couch and coffee table. But that's not as much fun. I sometimes wonder if I'm 44 going on 16.
But I've noticed a lot of people have an odd way of looking at lj. It's probably the whole social medium blitz. Facebook, tumblr, twitter...we have no sense of boundaries or personal space. It boggles my mind how people can come at you and insist that you change your journal to cater to their needs. As if you're writing it for them. Uh no.
No one on lj is making money off their journals, guys and gals. At least not to my knowledge. Also there is this odd catch-22 scenario going on - you want to connect with people, share your inner-most thoughts but you are afraid you are going to scare them off. You want to find a way to express who you are, without them running for the hills. If that makes sense. If not...eh...don't tell me.
2. The Fault in Our Stars - okay, this book is the young adult equivalent of William S. Gibson's Pattern Recognition - although I think it may actually be better than Gibson's book. It reminds me a great deal of it. But it's less, how to put this? Pretentious? I like Gibson, quite a bit, but he is just a tad pretentious. You also get the feeling that Gibson is commenting on something he's not really in the midst of - after reading his interview in Paris Review, I'm positive this is the case. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars feels in some respects more real, and more relatable, more tangible in a way. It's about media obsession and the interaction between audience and creator, but it concerns books as opposed to film, and the emails. Also the main characters are two teenagers with cancer.
They've fallen in love with a book that ends abruptly - in the middle of a sentence.
They want to know what happens next. So they individually email the writer, who in writerly fashion refuses to answer their questions, but is touched that they wrote him. The interaction between these two teens and the writer reminds me a great deal of the Buffy fandom's interactions with Whedon and his writers and editors.
I'm tempted to transcribe the two letters for you...from the novel. But it's late and that's too much work. What I will state instead is this: if you loved William Gibson's Pattern Recognition - you should read John Green's The Fault in Our Stars - it's a lot funnier than Gibson's book. Gibson is a lot of things, but funny really doesn't come to mind. If you loved The Fault in Our Stars? You should read William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Both discuss the need to relate through cultural media, as an escape from hopelessness and despair. Or the use of an obsession with a cultural medium as a way to escape despair. Finding hope through someone else's even if it is fictional, especially if it is fictional, story.
Something I can oddly enough relate to.
Fascinating book so far. About a third of the way through.
3. Am considering buying the Box set of Game of Thrones tomorrow to cheer myself up. Some people go clothes shopping to cheer themselves up. I buy DVDs, CDs, and books, no wonder my apartment is so cluttered. What I should buy is a new armchair, couch and coffee table. But that's not as much fun. I sometimes wonder if I'm 44 going on 16.