Comments on: Levar Burton Would be Proud

By: Ryan P Craven

Ryan P Craven — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:38:52 +0000

Hello Jeff,
I finally got around to checking out your site and reading some of the posts. I must say I was surprised to find much less smut-peddling and tomfoolery than expected- not sure if that is a plus or a minus- but otherwise the site is slammin’. I would dare to even call it ‘respectableish’. Not to mention you get mad props for the Levar Burton piece.
It is in that very spirit that I offer my brain and ranting services to the ‘unsquare’ cause. I must say, though, that I have no clue about a topic. Left to my own devices there is no telling what sort of tangential, winding, cacophonous sort of text I may produce. Look no further than this post for evidence of that. Anyway, I suppose I am wondering if there is anything you would like me to comment on, or whatever. Or, I could just respond negatively towards anything that you post and become your arch-nemesis. On second thought I don’t really fit the bad-guy character very well, maybe you could be the bad guy.

Sorry, anyways, site is bitchin’, Reading Rainbow’s the shit, Rockbot tambien. Will holla latron.

Ryan P

PS- all that about books and no library shout out?

By: tim

tim — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:33:05 +0000

Just wanted to talk about books for minute. Thanks to you, I’ve been reading more Pratchett and Gaiman (though I don’t tell anyone outloud how fond I am of Gaiman). While looking for a couple of books by either of them at the local used bookstore (God’s gift to Tim) I happened upon “Good Omens”, a book by both Pratchett and Gaiman, talk about a good omen! (i’m a nerd) This book was hilarious, and I highly recommend it, its a humorous take on the armageddon, and a collaboration by the two authors when they were still relatively struggling writers. I also recently read, American Gods, by Gaiman, which was great, I enjoy his writing style.

I see that you recently read Earthsea, which is great, as long as you don’t watch the made for Sci-Fi movie of it (which is actually a horrible combination of the first two books in the series) and the rest of the books in the series are ok as well. She doesn’t really change a lot as a writer throughout the books, so it may be hard to read them all at once w/o getting bored, but the books are short and are fun and easy reads.

I just got 3 more Pratchett Discworld books, and have been engorging (two books in 4 days) myself on a couple of dragon books by Mercedes Lackey, and then the new and final HP comes out in July, so much to read, so little time. I like your review/list page, and will definitely hit it up when I need some more ideas.

Stardust is definitely on my list, but I’ll probably wait until after the movie, as the book is always better, and the movie usually a disappointment after reading the book. For instance, the movie Eragon was so much of a piss poor collaboration of feces throwing monkeys, that it made me hate the book so much I didn’t continue the series.

Good luck with your goal of 52 in a year, and if you are ever in doubt on what to read next, give me a shout.

By: Heliologue

Heliologue — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:02:01 +0000

Oh dear, the form seems to have stripped the hyperlinks from my comment.

Large Hearted Boy’s 2007 page: http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/52_books_2007/

Jeff’s 26 in 52: http://www.speedkill.org/2007/01/08/1678/

By: Heliologue

Heliologue — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:59:57 +0000

I’m flattered, but I’m not the originator of the meme. I originally got it from Large Hearted Boy, who was doing it a year before me. As near as I can tell, me might be the first person with a significant readership to do it, inspired as he was by similar memes with different media.

In any case, the meme’s adherents seem to be growing every year. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they wax and wane, since some people can’t handle the load—my friend Jeff, for instance, has set the more modest goal of 26 Books in 52 Weeks.

In any case, glad to have you join our swelling ranks.