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Feb. 4th, 2008
There's a new movie coming out, only JUST saw the trailer for it, called Jumper. It has an interesting premise to it but BEST of all, dudes, it's got Samuel Jackson in it! With a gun! Going after Hayden Christiansen (one hopes, for revenge, Jedi-style).
Although I admit I don't go see *every* movie Jackson has done, I DO love him in every movie I have seen him in. Especially in Jackie Brown, Long Kiss Goodnight, Unbreakable, Die Hard 3, Star Wars (tho the movies themselves sucked), as Frozone in The Incredibles, Kill Bill...and surely some others I don't remember off-hand.
And you know what? He looks a helluva lot better than his Die Hard 3 partner Bruce Willis, who is also still totin' a gun and doing the action hero thing. I'd love another movie featuring Zeus Carver. Please, producers of sequels? Can we have a story featuring Zeus? Pretty please?
Although I admit I don't go see *every* movie Jackson has done, I DO love him in every movie I have seen him in. Especially in Jackie Brown, Long Kiss Goodnight, Unbreakable, Die Hard 3, Star Wars (tho the movies themselves sucked), as Frozone in The Incredibles, Kill Bill...and surely some others I don't remember off-hand.
And you know what? He looks a helluva lot better than his Die Hard 3 partner Bruce Willis, who is also still totin' a gun and doing the action hero thing. I'd love another movie featuring Zeus Carver. Please, producers of sequels? Can we have a story featuring Zeus? Pretty please?
This book was for real?
Feb. 4th, 2008 11:17 amI was in the grocery store early this morning, doing some quick shopping for both of my sick kids. Yes, BOTH my kids are home today. Little Guy had a fever of 100.4F, and Mermaid still has a murderous sore throat and headache (well, the throat I'm sure about, the headache? I think is purely mine).
But anyway. I'm at the grocery store and could not resist passing by the paperback rack in the back. The cover that caught my eye happened to have a girl with white wings flying against a blue background, with the title something like, "Saving the World". Pretty much said it all. However, I'm a sucker from WAY back for people with wings (not angels, but winged characters).
This book was one huge stack of cliches and tropes. Evil scientist creating genetic supermen/girls/children. Not only wolf-human crosses, but bird-human crosses. All the bird-humans are under 14. I skimmed through it, wondering if it could get any worse but honestly, it had nowhere else to go. I don't remember who the author is; I'll have to note it next time I'm there (which will probably be tomorrow).
What REALLY killed me about this book? I had to keep from laughing out loud. On the back was a blurb written by who-knows-who, a housewife? quoted as saying that as busy as she was driving an SUV, doing homestuff, and being an adult, she LOVED this story. Um.
What I got out of this skimmed book in the grocery store was, damn, here's the book that PROVES to me that yes, I could write a better book (but I'll feel ashamed if the writer of this book turns out to be a 15 year old, in which case, that's nothing to be proud about). I just have to take it seriously. And not flail over rewriting.Or just give it up and keep mocking bad books that make into print.
But anyway. I'm at the grocery store and could not resist passing by the paperback rack in the back. The cover that caught my eye happened to have a girl with white wings flying against a blue background, with the title something like, "Saving the World". Pretty much said it all. However, I'm a sucker from WAY back for people with wings (not angels, but winged characters).
This book was one huge stack of cliches and tropes. Evil scientist creating genetic supermen/girls/children. Not only wolf-human crosses, but bird-human crosses. All the bird-humans are under 14. I skimmed through it, wondering if it could get any worse but honestly, it had nowhere else to go. I don't remember who the author is; I'll have to note it next time I'm there (which will probably be tomorrow).
What REALLY killed me about this book? I had to keep from laughing out loud. On the back was a blurb written by who-knows-who, a housewife? quoted as saying that as busy as she was driving an SUV, doing homestuff, and being an adult, she LOVED this story. Um.
What I got out of this skimmed book in the grocery store was, damn, here's the book that PROVES to me that yes, I could write a better book (but I'll feel ashamed if the writer of this book turns out to be a 15 year old, in which case, that's nothing to be proud about). I just have to take it seriously. And not flail over rewriting.Or just give it up and keep mocking bad books that make into print.