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Shelke14
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TOP PAGE. I rock. All kneel to me! | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
I can now feel the blood pumping through my veins. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On April 03 2014 01:39 Shelke14 wrote: I'll look into it cancer sheep TOP PAGE. I rock. All kneel to me! I plug Diana Wynne Jones literally every chance I get. She is criminally underrated, partly because she gets pigeonholed into a "non-serious YA writer" even though her prose is effective, her stories wildly imaginative, creative, and fresh (not to mention ahead of her time), and I suspect well over 90% of successful sci-fi and fantasy authors working today were exposed to and heavily influenced by Jones in their childhood, whether or not they admit it. Her themes are straightforward and she doesn't work in epic high fantasy with vast landscapes and world-building (minus Dalemark Quartet, which is a gem in its own right), but goddammit if she's not a good storyteller. Orson Scott Card himself has a nice little piece on Jones + a few of her works here if you're interested http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/f&sf/92-02.html Excerpt (emphasis added), and keep in mind this was penned all the way back in 1992! Diana Wynne Jones has been around, if not forever, then at least longer than I have. But her works in America remain strangely invisible to many readers, I suppose for the same old reason: Her books are marketed to the young adult audience. Thus many of you may well remember her books from junior high or high school. But you won't see them in many of the speciality science fiction stores, and in others her books are scattered here and there -- Howl's Moving Castle in the adult fantasy section; The Lives of Christopher Chant and Dogsbody in YA; and, far too often, many of her titles nowhere at all! But go to any junior high school library, and there you'll find her work missing from the shelves for another reason -- the good reason. The books are checked out. The books are read. And so it is that as with William Sleator and Daniel Pinkwater -- some of the best sf and fantasy of our generation is well known to kids and ignored by most adults. Just look at the YA adult stuff that's popular today - Jones did it all, and better (less formulaic and trite) decades earlier. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 03 2014 01:46 jcarlsoniv wrote: I wish Orson Scott Card wasn't such a tool of a human being, cuz his books are awesome T_T just separate his work from himself. | ||
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Kyrie
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are there other ghibli works based on western source material? porco rosso was an obvious suspect but it was originally a manga | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 03 2014 01:36 Shelke14 wrote: Lol yup. Why I loved it. I'm a huge nerd for series that deal with god like individuals being portrayed as more causal like. Anything with Nordic and Greek gods or even characters like Michael, Gabriel, lucifer in a sort of struggle of angel vs demons way. Probably why i loved supernatural season 4 or 5 where they were a heavy source of the plot Or Dresden Files! (I feel like a broken record) Norse mythology, Native American mythology, the Fae, Judeo-Christian angels and demons, and all other monsters and gibblies show up. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:02 Kyrie wrote: i had no idea howl's moving castle was adapted from an english novel are there other ghibli works based on western source material? porco rosso was an obvious suspect but it was originally a manga How fucked would your mind be if I told you Spirited Away was adapted from a 19th century French novel? Howl's Moving Castle the anime, from what I was told, was awful. The original was great however. Confusingly, Castle in the Sky (anime) has nothing to do with the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle (book), Castle in the Air (book). Similarly, Tales of Earthsea the anime was based on the Earthsea series by Ursula K. LeGuin, also fantastic novels with a horrid adaptation. Arrietty is from some random English kids' book IIRC. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:10 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: How fucked would your mind be if I told you Spirited Away was adapted from a 19th century French novel? It's not BTW in case you were wondering. | ||
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
in the end they're all very distant adaptations of source material though. | ||
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Kyrie
1594 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:10 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: It's not BTW in case you were wondering. wow | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23335 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:18 Slayer91 wrote: what about over the sun That's why we need to go to space. Lots of uncharted fiction out there. | ||
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Nos-
Canada12016 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:18 Slayer91 wrote: what about over the sun asking the real questions | ||
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
How do you think people would feel about a general cooking thread? I've seen some blogs, but I'd like to make for more for people to ask questions about cooking, maybe recipe tips, etc. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:32 Dark_Chill wrote: Darn I missed the food talk. How do you think people would feel about a general cooking thread? I've seen some blogs, but I'd like to make for more for people to ask questions about cooking, maybe recipe tips, etc. It would probably get some good traffic. Nerds love food. | ||
AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
I still had to be like "... Team Liquid fan?" and she was all "This is my son's." Wasn't really expecting a different answer, and now I feel like a creeper. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 03 2014 02:52 jcarlsoniv wrote: It would probably get some good traffic. Nerds love food. where would you put it? imo just group it in this offtopic thread, spontaneous food talk is always appreciated. On April 03 2014 02:53 AsmodeusXI wrote: First TL sweatshirt I've seen in the wild and it was on a soccer mom at the YMCA. I still had to be like "... Team Liquid fan?" and she was all "This is my son's." Wasn't really expecting a different answer, and now I feel like a creeper. I have to ask. Hot? | ||
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