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shadowkat1. Well, tumblr is entertaining in that it has lots of pretty pictures and ahem, some incredibly not so pretty pictures. Not sure what to do with it though. Can you write on it?
Or is it mainly for collaborations and posting of pictures?
2. Good Reads is weird. Hard to really talk to people on that site. The discussion threads don't permit you to directly reply to one post, instead you find yourself relegated to the end. And it requires work to read the whole thread. Not productive at all and reminds me a lot of sites like Buffy-forums and whedoneseque. I miss voy forums - where you replied directly to the post you read or Live Journal, which has a similar construction. Much easier to follow in my opinion. OTOH...there's a hilarious thread on Good Reads right now:
Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen vs. Bella (TWilight) and Percy Jackson in the smack down to end all smack down's.
One poster was offended that Percy got stuck with Bella of all people. Bella is not well loved by anyone outside of the Twilight fandom. Can't think why. It's not like she's wimpy or anything. (I need a sarcasm icon or emoticon.)
Let me think...who do you think would win this battle? Guess it depends on whether Bella is a vampire yet?
3. Finished Sylvia Day's "I Married a Stranger" and realized Day is definitely a Joss Whedon fan. She literally names the son of her protagonists...."Lord Whedon"...which made me giggle for five minutes on the train. Sorry. A six year old..."Lord Whedon??" in Edwardian England. Bwhahhahah! I don't recommend the novel, well not unless you are in the mood for a lot of repetitive sex scenes. And I do mean a lot. Day likes to write sex scenes. The novel is innovative in regards to its characters ages and experience levels, I will give it that. The heroine is 26 and four years later 30. Which is relatively ancient in Regency Romance novels. Seriously, if you are older than 21 or 22, you are considered on the shelf. Apparently people didn't make it past 45 back then? Quite disturbing. And the hero is 22 and 26 in the book. She's experienced and jaded and has had multiple lovers. He aims to make her fall desperately in love with him - basically by shagging her senseless. You'd think after having multiple lovers...it wouldn't work, but it does. Much sexual hijinks ensue.
And now that I'm finally burned out on the trashy romance/erotica genre, I've started Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Which I've never read. My aim is to read the book, then rent the movie, assuming it is available. Next, Tess of the D'Ubervilles and then the Roman Polanski film. Then possibly Elizabeth Gatskill's North and South...we'll see what my mood is. I also want to read Under the Skin by Michael Faber - which has been collecting dust on my book shelf for some time. At any rate can already tell the difference in the writing. It is playing out like a film in my head.
Detailed and textured. I can taste it. Maybe I'll try Eugendis Marriage Plot again after I read Hardy. Might be in the mood for it now. It's all about the mood.
Or is it mainly for collaborations and posting of pictures?
2. Good Reads is weird. Hard to really talk to people on that site. The discussion threads don't permit you to directly reply to one post, instead you find yourself relegated to the end. And it requires work to read the whole thread. Not productive at all and reminds me a lot of sites like Buffy-forums and whedoneseque. I miss voy forums - where you replied directly to the post you read or Live Journal, which has a similar construction. Much easier to follow in my opinion. OTOH...there's a hilarious thread on Good Reads right now:
Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen vs. Bella (TWilight) and Percy Jackson in the smack down to end all smack down's.
One poster was offended that Percy got stuck with Bella of all people. Bella is not well loved by anyone outside of the Twilight fandom. Can't think why. It's not like she's wimpy or anything. (I need a sarcasm icon or emoticon.)
Let me think...who do you think would win this battle? Guess it depends on whether Bella is a vampire yet?
3. Finished Sylvia Day's "I Married a Stranger" and realized Day is definitely a Joss Whedon fan. She literally names the son of her protagonists...."Lord Whedon"...which made me giggle for five minutes on the train. Sorry. A six year old..."Lord Whedon??" in Edwardian England. Bwhahhahah! I don't recommend the novel, well not unless you are in the mood for a lot of repetitive sex scenes. And I do mean a lot. Day likes to write sex scenes. The novel is innovative in regards to its characters ages and experience levels, I will give it that. The heroine is 26 and four years later 30. Which is relatively ancient in Regency Romance novels. Seriously, if you are older than 21 or 22, you are considered on the shelf. Apparently people didn't make it past 45 back then? Quite disturbing. And the hero is 22 and 26 in the book. She's experienced and jaded and has had multiple lovers. He aims to make her fall desperately in love with him - basically by shagging her senseless. You'd think after having multiple lovers...it wouldn't work, but it does. Much sexual hijinks ensue.
And now that I'm finally burned out on the trashy romance/erotica genre, I've started Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Which I've never read. My aim is to read the book, then rent the movie, assuming it is available. Next, Tess of the D'Ubervilles and then the Roman Polanski film. Then possibly Elizabeth Gatskill's North and South...we'll see what my mood is. I also want to read Under the Skin by Michael Faber - which has been collecting dust on my book shelf for some time. At any rate can already tell the difference in the writing. It is playing out like a film in my head.
Detailed and textured. I can taste it. Maybe I'll try Eugendis Marriage Plot again after I read Hardy. Might be in the mood for it now. It's all about the mood.
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Date: 2012-08-10 10:26 am (UTC)You also got women marrying not just for the second but for the first time well into their 30s and 40s and even having children of the union.
I didn't much care for Faber's Under the Skin but I thought The Crimson Petal and the White was brilliant, and not just because I got cited in the endnote as helping with the research!
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Date: 2012-08-11 03:24 pm (UTC)What would happen if Philip K Dick wrote Animal Farm on an acid trip?
(ie. The Three Stigmatta of Palmer K. Eldritch meets Animal Farm.)
I'm speeding through it - because I'm trying to figure out what's going on and if I'm right. (ie. The reference to Three Stigmata of Palmer K. Eldritch meets Animal Farm with a bit of Swift thrown into the mix.)