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[senoritafish]

From today's The Writer's Almanac:

What's in My Journal
by William Stafford,
from Crossing Unmarked Snow © University of Michigan Press.

Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean
Things, fishhooks, barbs in your hand.
But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.
Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous
discards. Space for knickknacks, and for
Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify.
Clues that lead nowhere, that never connected
anyway. Deliberate obfuscation, the kind
that takes genius. Chasms in character.
Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn above
a new grave. Pages you know exist
but you can't find them. Someone's terribly
inevitable life story, maybe mine.

Well, I dunno if mine's that interesting...

The Great LiveJournal Outage of 2005 During the outage I went straight over to deviant art. What did you do? Brought to you by geek-foo

Well, I won't deny I haven't spent a bit of time there. But I spent some of it reading stories at While We Tell of Yuletide Treasure, a site pointed out to me by megthelegend last year. My gosh, I have not run across a bad story there yet, no matter what the fandom. Some funny Venture Brothers, a couple of absolutely gorgeous Last Unicorn stories (I swear Mr. Beagle could've written them), and a Dogma/Good Omens crossover that is just rib-tickling. Even a couple of Lamb stories (both got the comment "Are you sure you're not Christopher Moore?") And of course, Bebop and Trigun...

Oh, and I did do about 5 loads of laundry, too, while I was watching The Postman from Netflix - still haven't finished it. I loved David Brin's book - Costner seems to have rewritten it a bit.

Comments

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

Is the book better than the movie? I never did bother to watch the rest of that. I usually like Costner, too.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the book, but then I do like David Brin. He's also a professor of physics at CalTech, so if there's any science involved in a story, he's usually got it correct. My favorite book of his is Startide Rising (http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1527493/senoritafish/book_-Startide-Rising-(The-Uplift-Saga,-Book-2)-David-Brin) - which is more traditional SF.

So far what I've noticed, is the first 45 minutes, where Costner's character is captured and forced to join the Holnists is not in the book (although I did like the mule, who also wasn't in the book). He does get captured by them towards the end, but by then his postal system is more set up. He also did not spend a blizzard in a cabin with Abby, nor do I remember him being wounded.

I'd have to read the book again for more differences, but I remember the book being very moving, a feeling I am not getting from the movie. But three hours seems awfully long for a movie from a 250 page book.

I just wild-released a copy of this through BookCrossing. Maybe I should've sent it to you!

*scratches head* Hmmm, I do have a couple you might like if you liked "The Handmaid's Tale"... This one (http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1542053) and this one: (http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1693021) Shall I send them along?

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

If you wouldn't mind? They sound great!

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Sure, send me your snail mail address.