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Jan. 24th, 2005 09:49 amNo school again. This means that I will be able to go see National Treasure and get extra credit for history. ( Cut for Elitist Ranting about Grades )
Jan. 24th, 2005
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Jan. 24th, 2005 10:03 amNow that school rant is over lets move on to the Alias rant. ( Cut for irrelevance to anyone who doesn't watch Alias. )
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Jan. 24th, 2005 10:34 amFinally, the fun entry. Today, after reading the latest chapter Laocoon's children I was inspired to actually get around to reading Dorian Grey. Naturally I gravitated to the appropriate shelf upstairs. I didn't find it. I did find several rather interesting things.
1. The Never Ending Story, the book version.
2. The Idiot, which I may have to read because it looks less depressing than Crime and Punishment.
3. Enough P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, and Rex Stout to last anyone a lifetime. Or at least a year or two. (We have the Nero Wolf cookbook. I'm in awe.)
4. Roald Dahl's Omnibus. I was a dedicate Dahl fan when I was little. I was pissed off when I was ten because Matilda got to keep her powers in the movie when the whole reason she had them was that she wasn't using enough of her brain. Nuff said.
5. Vanity Fair. I've been meaning to read this ever since I read reviews of the movie.
6. Horrifying numbers of Micheal Chriton books. I wouldn't be worried, except that the people who bought these laughed at me for reading Tom Clancy.
7. My mother's secret romance novel collection. Naturally this consists of lots of Francis Parkinson Keys and Auntie Julia and the Script Writer. But still. My mom having romance novels would be like President Bush having Maurice on his favorite bookshelf. (Also found that btw, and I fully intend to read it.)
Other amusing literary thoughts:
Davalyn is reading a book about gay kids in highschool that made me realize that people are writing ridiculous romances about gays and lesbians and targeting it to a highschool audience. I guess the whole 'controversial topic' is the new marketing angle since most original plots in those books were used up decades ago. Although now that I think about, I swear one of the kids in the book that Katie's mom had from when she was in highschool had a gay kid in it...The more I think about the less I know why I'm suprised by this.
Megan is reading the Star Wars novels. Aniela read them over the summer. As someone who read them all in about sixth grade I'm slightly amused. (And snobby again.) But anyway this is bringing back memories of the days when Boba Fett was my favorite character ever and I confused some lady who interviewing me for something in school when I told her that Timothy Zahn was my favorite author. I have since realized that the Star Wars movies are the best bad movies of all time, not the best movies of all time. It was kind of heartbreaking.
1. The Never Ending Story, the book version.
2. The Idiot, which I may have to read because it looks less depressing than Crime and Punishment.
3. Enough P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, and Rex Stout to last anyone a lifetime. Or at least a year or two. (We have the Nero Wolf cookbook. I'm in awe.)
4. Roald Dahl's Omnibus. I was a dedicate Dahl fan when I was little. I was pissed off when I was ten because Matilda got to keep her powers in the movie when the whole reason she had them was that she wasn't using enough of her brain. Nuff said.
5. Vanity Fair. I've been meaning to read this ever since I read reviews of the movie.
6. Horrifying numbers of Micheal Chriton books. I wouldn't be worried, except that the people who bought these laughed at me for reading Tom Clancy.
7. My mother's secret romance novel collection. Naturally this consists of lots of Francis Parkinson Keys and Auntie Julia and the Script Writer. But still. My mom having romance novels would be like President Bush having Maurice on his favorite bookshelf. (Also found that btw, and I fully intend to read it.)
Other amusing literary thoughts:
Davalyn is reading a book about gay kids in highschool that made me realize that people are writing ridiculous romances about gays and lesbians and targeting it to a highschool audience. I guess the whole 'controversial topic' is the new marketing angle since most original plots in those books were used up decades ago. Although now that I think about, I swear one of the kids in the book that Katie's mom had from when she was in highschool had a gay kid in it...The more I think about the less I know why I'm suprised by this.
Megan is reading the Star Wars novels. Aniela read them over the summer. As someone who read them all in about sixth grade I'm slightly amused. (And snobby again.) But anyway this is bringing back memories of the days when Boba Fett was my favorite character ever and I confused some lady who interviewing me for something in school when I told her that Timothy Zahn was my favorite author. I have since realized that the Star Wars movies are the best bad movies of all time, not the best movies of all time. It was kind of heartbreaking.
