Ages ago, pretzelcoatl asked me for my top 5 villains! This turned out to be incredibly difficult, I picked out the top 2 right away and then got stuck. I spent a good deal of time agonizing over who to choose, and for what reasons. Eventually I decided to limit myself to completed canons (which is why Christopher Carrion of Abarat is not on here) and to stop ( Read more... )

So I just spent about a week being very involved with Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11, and will have to spend more time with it soon, but in the meantime I would like to talk about it as a book rather than using it to talk about terrorism.

I would not have read The Looming Tower if it wasn't an assignment, and ( Read more... )

So I am kind of deeply in love with Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Sayaka is totally my favorite character, because when you stop a magical fight with a fire extinguisher in episode one and bring a baseball bat to another magical fight in episode two you basically earn my love forever. But this is Madoka Magica, and Sayaka has not had an easy time ( Read more... )

Back when China Mieville's The City and the City came out, bookelfe posted a review of it, and suggested to me that it was very much my kind of book. Conveniently, this happened shortly before my birthday, and so it was the book I ended up buying with my birthday money.

Over a year later, I have finally read it, and I can tell you that it is totally my ( Read more... )

I should say more, or be on more, but is remarkable how little time (and computer time in particular) I always seem to end up with when on breaks.

THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THIS IS AMAZING AND I RECOMMEND IT TO THE DIANA WYNNE JONES FANS ON MY F-LIST.

I love Yuletide.

bookelfe knows me well, as demonstrated by her request for, among other things, my top 5 stoic cops! As this is the easiest of the lists that have so far been requested of me, it is the first one I'm putting up! ...I will let the fact that it is easier for me to think about cop characters rather than, say, pairings, speak for itself.

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Stolen from bookelfe, though I did not realize that she was doing this until the posts started up.

Ask me my Fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post. Possibly with pictures.

This may or may not be an attempt to be on my journal more. Multiple requests are allowed.

This is a completely inappropriate icon for this post, but I am in a Cronenberg starring Mortensen mood this week, so I wanted to use it. There will probably be more on that later ( Read more... )

See what I'm doing here, Del Rey? I am posting about about volume 8 of Mushishi individually! You may have only published volumes 8-10 as an omnibus, but I refuse to read or post about more than one volume at a time! Mushishi deserves that respect!

Volume 8 is...well, it's a volume of Mushishi. That normally means that it is filled with 5 ( Read more... )

As many of you know, one of my very favorite movies is Carol Reed's The Third Man. In fact, in terms of my sheer love for it, it is second only to Casablanca (though Blade Runner comes terribly close). The script for The Third Man was written by a famous and widely respected novelist, Graham Greene. A while ago, I decided that given my love for The ( Read more... )