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I haven't seen the first movie yet; I'll have to check it out.]]> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 02:59 PM Saturday, March 10, 2012 08:42 PM Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:12 AM Monday, July 25, 2011 08:30 AM Sunday, July 24, 2011 11:44 AM Monday, June 27, 2011 01:31 PM Monday, June 27, 2011 03:48 PM Monday, May 2, 2011 01:52 PM Thursday, April 28, 2011 09:12 AM But seriously those two guys have it totally wrong, because the whole point of the story is clearly that the various warring powers of Westeros are going to have to UNITE to defeat the undead hordes.]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2011 08:49 PM Friday, April 15, 2011 10:57 AM Monday, March 14, 2011 09:04 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2011 08:57 AM
Fun fact: I'm good friends with Cat Valente, the author of the book, and was a groomsman at her wedding. I'm also friends with the awesome Amy Houser, who is the artist on the illustrated version. Actually, Neil and SuperTarzan know her too — we all gamed together.]]> Friday, January 21, 2011 11:13 AM Friday, January 21, 2011 12:02 PM Friday, January 7, 2011 03:44 PM Saturday, January 8, 2011 08:01 AM Monday, December 13, 2010 11:42 AM Friday, August 20, 2010 10:07 AM Friday, August 20, 2010 10:17 AM You mentioned that the story of Gilgamesh seemed a bit "schizophrenic" to you because the story begins by praising him, but then continues on to recount all his failures...
I'm just wondering if you can't see the parallel here... David's life starts out pretty well, but he falls into sin as king over Israel. He has relations with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, she becomes pregnant, and then David goes on to arrange Uriah's death on the battle field...Yet even though David commits this horrendous evil, God still singles him out as "a man after (His) own heart".
You're Jewish from what I know..I believe in having a personal, saving relationship with Jesus Christ. But I don't think either of us, even though our beliefs differ, would describe God as schizophrenic..and yet I see the way God narrates the history of the Jewish people in the Bible as being quite similar to the way the author narrates The Epic of Gilgamesh (based on how you described the book, because I have never personally read it). The story of the Bible starts out with God creating the heavens and the earth..breathing life into humanity..and placing Adam and Eve in a perfect environment...they had the beginnings of a wonderful and noble life, yet, like Gilgamesh, they, like the rest of humanity to follow, are more notable for their failures than for any success they may attain.

Let me know what you think..I'd love to hear your comments! ]]> Wednesday, August 11, 2010 09:17 AM Tuesday, July 27, 2010 09:57 PM
But yeah, one does get the feeling sometimes that Miyazaki isn't very interested in endings. The ending of Howl's Moving Castle is so abrupt it's ridiculous. All the conflicts are suddenly resolved and the credits pop up almost before the last scene is over.]]> Wednesday, July 28, 2010 08:33 AM Monday, June 7, 2010 01:11 PM Monday, June 7, 2010 11:51 AM Friday, June 4, 2010 10:32 AM Friday, June 4, 2010 10:43 AM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 09:40 PM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:16 AM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:24 AM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 01:10 PM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 12:53 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2010 01:18 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2010 01:51 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2010 02:21 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:14 AM Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:16 AM Thursday, February 4, 2010 09:55 PM Thursday, February 4, 2010 09:55 PM Friday, January 29, 2010 01:08 PM Friday, January 15, 2010 04:30 PM
I think my friend William said it best: "What a great concept. A road novel with modern versions of ancient gods. Imagine if [the book] had been written by a really good novelist instead of a comic book writer."]]> Friday, January 15, 2010 04:41 PM Mike: Obviously I disagree! In fact, I disliked Good Omens so much, I couldn't even finish it.]]> Friday, January 15, 2010 06:07 PM
That's bizarre.]]> Thursday, January 14, 2010 03:11 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:47 PM
But The Name of the Wind is ludicrously overrated; the writer spends the first three quarters of the book making a bunch of promises and the last quarter proving himself unable to keep them. I'm really baffled by people who like it.

Anyway, you haven't read American Gods? That's kind of surprising.]]> Friday, December 11, 2009 01:58 PM
Yeah, I'm a little confused as to why I haven't read American Gods yet myself. In fact, believe it or not, I have never read any of Gaiman's novels - only his graphic novels and comics. I have to get on that.]]> Friday, December 11, 2009 02:07 PM Friday, December 11, 2009 02:14 PM Monday, December 7, 2009 02:07 PM Monday, December 7, 2009 02:24 PM Thursday, December 10, 2009 02:20 PM Thursday, December 10, 2009 02:25 PM
It was great. Ultraman would randomly annihilate people from his satellite with his heat vision. Owlman and Super Woman were conducting an affair behind Ultraman's back that he knew about but couldn't prove. I highly recommend picking up the various trades.

The "heroes" of the world included Alexander Luthor, The Jokester and Three Face.]]> Wednesday, December 9, 2009 10:58 PM Monday, November 30, 2009 01:22 PM Monday, November 30, 2009 08:22 AM Monday, November 30, 2009 09:27 AM Sunday, November 29, 2009 09:13 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 03:56 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 04:41 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 05:18 PM
I confess... the mental picture of you & young Griffin reading HP together made me tear up a little. :) ]]> Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:05 AM Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:06 AM Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:27 AM Monday, October 26, 2009 01:00 PM Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:26 PM Friday, October 9, 2009 07:41 PM Friday, October 9, 2009 09:02 AM
Have no fear: I will try everything in my power to convert the baby into a die-hard Trekker.]]> Thursday, October 8, 2009 09:17 AM
PS. I hope Floyd handles the news well. I know he's sensitive. ]]> Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:36 AM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:11 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:26 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:33 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:41 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:01 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:03 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:04 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:28 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:54 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 07:48 PM
And if you're taking suggestions about what you should raise the baby to love, please raise the baby to love Star Trek: TNG.]]> Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:33 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:20 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 07:52 PM
I love the contrast between Harry and Neville, and don't think it's at all coincidence, in light of the prophecy, that in a concrete way it is Neville who actually allows Voldemort to be truly defeated in the end.

Setting up Snape to kill Dumbledore becomes fully clear at the very end, but I actually never had a problem with it. I was in the Trust Snape camp from the beginning, for the simple reason that if Dumbledore had truly thought Snape was not fully on his side he never, ever, would have said "Please."]]> Sunday, October 4, 2009 12:24 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 01:29 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 01:35 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 02:07 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 02:19 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 12:33 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 12:38 PM Thursday, October 1, 2009 04:20 PM Thursday, October 1, 2009 06:47 PM
Also, I like how you troll the interwebs so I don't have to.]]> Monday, September 14, 2009 07:00 PM Monday, September 14, 2009 08:23 PM Monday, September 14, 2009 09:12 PM
s: Yeah, I was surprised to hear he lost after I watched that video.]]> Monday, September 14, 2009 10:44 PM Thursday, September 10, 2009 07:15 AM Thursday, September 10, 2009 08:46 AM Saturday, September 5, 2009 01:31 AM Thursday, July 30, 2009 09:55 AM Ahem. I do not roll my eyes at you. At least, not seriously. ]]> Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:04 AM Source: Wikipedia).

I think when I was originally reading them, I also gave up after 6 or 7. My major complaint with the last book I read was that even with a length of some 1,000 pages it had managed to not move the main plot forward whatsoever. But now that there's an end in sight, I figure I might give it another shot.]]> Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:09 AM Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:11 AM Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:44 AM
I have never encountered an atmosphere like it. An aching loneliness that gets under the ribs. Stifling remoteness.

This book must be read all at once, preferably in one day, otherwise the cloaking atmosphere is easily lost. A break in the rhythm is disastrous.

What a mind Mervyn Peake must have had. His imagination was seemingly limitless. He was an intensely lonely individual. Utter isolation inside his own head. That loneliness seems to have found its way inside of this book. There is a desolation here that is painful like claws.

Boy In Darkness is Mervyn Peake's exploration of the horror of being alone. Of the terror of the animal taking over the human. Of the fear of being hidden away in some vast, bleak, silent land, where a monster of silence awaits to crush out your life.

This is an existential novel of the finest purity. By the time you finish reading it, you will have been somewhere else entirely. Not in your world. If find such abstraction beautiful. Like cold mathematics in words. And the the language of it all is imaculate. Mervyn Peake's icy prose in all its glory in the shadows.

What an achievement. ]]> Monday, March 21, 2011 03:28 AM Saturday, December 13, 2008 03:20 PM Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:42 PM Thursday, November 27, 2008 09:38 AM But Mom is so exhausted she keeps nodding off and the daughter has to wake her up (which is kind of weird. Is she high or what?).

Yeah, this is not uncommon in our house. Four years of not sleeping through the night, and I regularly nod off anytime I sit down for more than five minutes. So, no, it's not weird, and she is probably not high.

And now I am going to become one of "those" parents and tell my friend with a fair amount of glee- just wait and see when you have kids:)
]]> Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:52 PM Sunday, November 23, 2008 09:27 AM Monday, June 9, 2008 09:56 AM I couldn't disagree more.]]> Monday, June 9, 2008 10:13 AM Tuesday, June 10, 2008 09:10 AM IHasAHotDog would be a good remedy, too.]]> Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:29 PM Friday, April 25, 2008 06:45 PM Sunday, April 27, 2008 09:22 AM Monday, August 4, 2008 09:50 AM Titus Awakes were you reading? My version, the Tusk edition from 1992, begins on page 355 and concludes on page 363 (nine pages). It has the single chapter and the list that you mention, plus an introduction and a preadventure that you do not.]]> Saturday, August 2, 2008 03:57 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2011 03:53 PM
I've just finished reading Titus Alone myself (my review here: http://tinyurl.com/6cpqxq8) and have mixed feelings about it. Certainly it's a departure from the first two works in the series. ]]> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 09:41 AM Wednesday, January 30, 2008 02:44 PM clever bloody bastard. ]]> Wednesday, January 30, 2008 04:00 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:28 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 12:07 PM like the Looney Toons, wink wink, nudge nude). But taken all together, the preponderance of evidence starts to shift and, well, I just don't want to have to have an intervention down the road, OK?]]> Friday, December 28, 2007 08:44 AM
Now I am both excited and frightened to see Yongary.

No, not a furry. Unless anybody who likes stories starring animals is a furry. Which would mean fans of Looney Tunes and Watership Down would be in trouble.

ST: Quiet, you!]]> Friday, December 28, 2007 12:08 AM Thursday, December 27, 2007 03:20 PM
Re. Mr. Beer: Why would you want to take the science out of it? Why would you want to take the science out of anything?

Re. Yongary: Stay alert for the utterly confusing dance sequence. I'm not sure, but I think that there might even be two.

Re. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: I did not previously know that this existed, but now I will have to come to your house in the night as you sleep and take this. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Re. Mouse Guard: I think... I think you're now officially a furry. I'm so very sorry for you.]]> Thursday, December 27, 2007 03:25 PM Poppy demanded that I play it last night while she watched...

*snickers* Dirty!]]> Thursday, December 27, 2007 04:55 PM
]]> Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:54 AM Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:49 PM Ender's Shadow does indeed sound intriguing...]]> Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:58 PM Friday, October 12, 2007 10:37 AM Thursday, October 11, 2007 09:19 AM Thursday, October 11, 2007 09:57 AM Monday, December 27, 2004 11:51 AM Saturday, December 25, 2004 01:39 PM intervention.]]> Saturday, December 25, 2004 06:56 PM
bloginator, lol. Also, you missed the nipples. It's all over now. That bus has sailed.]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 02:47 PM Thursday, September 30, 2004 07:18 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 07:22 AM and nipple together constitutes full frontal nudity, and that's just totally unacceptable!

I'm sorry. Somebody had to make that pun, so I decided to jump on that grenade myself.

Also, I want to point out here that I'm kidding, and that I am strongly in favor of full frontal nudity.]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 07:23 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 09:55 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:00 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:21 AM now, what was that about nipples?]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:20 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:26 AM
How come they give raging, delusional psychotics book deals?]]> Thursday, September 16, 2004 08:15 AM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 03:12 PM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 03:20 PM