Rapaciously Reaping Red Riotous Rage

[joiless]

I'm back like I forgot somethin', I'm somethin', rick rollin' rage runnin' miles like I got a... never mind.

Hey there, livejournal. I'm not dead. I'm not retired. I was just... elsewhere. Miss me? Of course you did. I can dodge bullets and cancer like Neo in a wind tunnel.

So what's bothering me today?

Comments

[wikinger_elfe]

The ideal Sherlock Holmes movie would be any of the live action Death Note movies. Okay, not really... but weren't you the one who noted that L is kinda close to the S-man? He's amazing in the movies. You should watch "L Save the WorLd". A lot of it is kinda jumbled and over the top, but L himself is brilliant. Especially the scene where he has to actually run after a plane that's taking off, and he's just like, -_- It's so pathetic and amazing. I love an action movie hero that can only run about as far as I can before he's completely winded. XD

PS: Sorry to ruin the new SH for you!

[joiless]

I keep trying to get into Death Note, but I fail miserably every time. There's got to be an easier way.

And Guy Ritchie ruined it for me. This was just arsenic icing on the sawdust cake.

[wikinger_elfe]

Hehe. I was completely obsessive over Death Note for the first half, until like 50 chapters in. I think I powered through all of it in one day, and it was amazing. Then... I stopped caring. And never really started again. I kept up on what happened and how it ended, and I still love L and Mello and Near, and I'm still in love with the art... and the movies are really good too. But yeah. It's like, I like it on the surface, but in-depth it kind of lost me forever.

[joiless]

I guess my take on it is that I had trouble being interested after they killed off the one character I cared about then tried to get me to root for a sociopathic douche bag and a bunch of other characters that I couldn't be bothered to care about either.

[asscollection]

I like your complaints! So far, my only one had been that I think it should have been a British film. I hadn't thought about it beyond that, though.

[joiless]

I don't mind it not being a British film (aside from having a director who's from England, anyway) because I doubt they'd do any better a job than the American actors will.

[jorisu]

I can't believe your sister is knocked up again. She really wants to have to waddle after a newly-bipedal child while all fat in the belly with spawn?

Thanks for the nod. [glorified] cheese slicer, indeed. :)

[joiless]

I have no idea. She's out of her mind, I think.

It's a deadly weapon... or not.

[denelian]

i admit that i don't have *all* of these problems - most of my Holmes-lore was ingested via Heinlein. so i missed someof it. not most of it

[denelian]

they do. and a short wait only 4 requests...

Sherlock Holmes
the complete novels and stories
Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle

Material type: Book
Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Books
Physical description: 2 v. 18 cm.
Year: 1986
Call number: Fiction Doyle
ISBN: 0553212419 (pbk. : v.1)
0553212427 (pbk. : v.2)
9780553212419 (pbk. : v.1)
9780553212426 (pbk. : v.2)
Annotation: Bantam Classic ed.

if you want to check out or get your own.

[joiless]

Fortunately for me, my classical literature comes to me, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is a collection of books transcribed word for word and available online for free; if its copyright has expired, it's likely to be found there. They've got nearly all the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Heinlein's take on Holmes via AI in the 26th Century is hella confusing sometimes. Incidentally, Mycroft was Sherlock's older, even more brilliant brother. Mycroft had none of Sherlock's energy or drive, but instead served as a living super computer for the British government.

[denelian]

!!! there was actually a "Mycroft" in the Holmes' stories!
i did not know that. and the living computer...

i swear, Heinlein is actually God.

i know a lot of theoretical "Holmes Lore" - so much that it wasn't until i read your post, and replied, that i realized i had never actually read any of the original Doyle. (which i might have already said...) i will be fixing that as soon as it comes into the library.

i can't stand trying to read books on a computer screen. i know i *should* - but, no, doesn't work. hence the checking out the actual book...

i've been thinking about a Kindle or something similiar, since they are almost book-sized and most of my issues (portability, being able to read and walk at the same time, etc) would go away, but they are thus far too much, for the (comparatively) small number of available titles.