New Show...

Surprise…I was on Google and I typed in The Diamond Age and up pops a page about it being a new show on Sci-Fi…with George Clooney! It says it will be a long form series…no idea what that is. It also says it is only in the plans but still I wonder how they will do it…

They could do maybe a couple scenes a week, like how in the book there are different scenes. Or I could see them focusing just on Nell and having the other characters just be secondary ones, and we really only see the show/book through Nell’s eyes.

I think it would be interesting to see who they get to play the characters; Clooney I could see him as either Hackworth or Finkle McGraw.  He would be good playing a lord, or a well-rounded engineer, that recites poetry. I am sure whatever he plays, and if it actually makes it to TV or a movie even, my mother will be all over it, she LOVES him! As for the other characters I am not sure…especially since the characters age and the book time jumps.

Anyways I think it would be an interesting show/movie to see; just because it has so many things going on, and different points of view. I wonder how they would do the whole aspect of the primer!  Well if it happens cool if not oh well….

Thoughts?

Here are the pages I got it from

1.       http://io9.com/5280607/george-clooney-brings-diamond-age-to-syfy

2.       http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=422

3.       http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/upcoming-movies/the-diamond-age-coming-to-the-scifi-channel/

Primer...the gift i want. :)

The primer is one gift I wish I would get. I like that it teaches you what you need to know about life and in a sense yourself, to make it through and how to adjust to new experiences and you know what is required of them to make the most of the situation. I think Stephenson did a good job at explaining and showing the different primers and that everyone doesn’t experience the same thing, and that we do not all have the same reactions to them. Like on page 318, when Elizabeth is acting like a brat (that we already established in class) and taking out her frustrations on the primer. While Fiona creates her own world and is having a breakdown. Nell on the other hand seems to find herself with the help of the primer. She starts to help herself; she isn’t relying on others to help her.

I think that in the way they react to the primer; shows how they want to act like they do in the primer but the larger society doesn’t allow them to, Elisabeth’s family is to rich and bratty; Fiona’s is to angry and dysfunctional. It seems like that the experiences in the primer are changing them but then they are caught up in what their society wants. Nell grew up suppressed and the book taught her what she need to know, she didn’t know it was right or wrong until she got to school. The primer is what she knows; she doesn’t get caught up in society because society wasn’t there for her before so she doesn’t have to unlearn anything. The other two have to unlearn which is usually more difficult than learning in the first place. Making the reactions reasonable because they are caught in-between, where Nell, even with her frustrations, knows where she stands.

So even with all the complications, and hoops Nell and the others have to jump through, I still think the primer would be the coolest gift ever. What about y’all? Is the primer for you?

So far so good.

I surprisingly like Deerskin. I think that because a lot of the book in mental, there is just a bit of dialog, but it is to really set up the story, of give you a bit more to the character.  Example in the beginning the dialog really sets up the story of the King and Queen and the fact that Lissar is so excited and in a hurry to the story really sets up the ‘fairy tale’ aspect of it, it also give the King and Queen a very glossy, and glamourize start. Some of the dialog is with her first friend Viaka, and her presence seems to add a bit more to the book, we see a bit more of Lissar and how she thinks, in regard to her new friend.

As for the mental regards to the book, it just seems to grab my attention, I like seeing how people think and I think McKinley did a good job at capturing it. Telling how one would react to events, and how the memory takes time to heal and accept these events.  I liked how it was set up when she was running away, and how she slowly heals, mentally and physically.

I admit I am excited to find out what happens next. I hope the ending is different compared to that of Donkeyskin.

Check out this video, I think it is pretty good!

March 23... I can't wait!

I loved the Hunger Games novels! Since we had to read the last one for class I thought I would read the first two just to get the background on the world, and that third one would make more sense then. I went out and bought the first one and I have been hooked ever since. It was addicting, I read the first one in day and then I had to wait a whole 5 hours to go home and start the second one.  The next day I had to restrain myself from bringing the second one to school, because if I did, I wouldn’t have worked on any homework.

I think out of the three, that the first one was my favorite, it just opens everything up and I love how she laid out the characters and how she has memories, intertwined with what is happening now.  I liked the games part, one because I had never read anything like it. Two because she does a good job at making you feel like you are there in the game. Katniss goes from knowing the cameras are there to just trying to make it to the end, and the fact that the world is watching her doesn’t really matter, and she doesn’t really play for the camera….except for when she is in the cave with Peeta…one could argue there that it is to save his life, or get food.

Just overall I really liked the series and I am upset that there isn’t another one for me to devour.  I was at Barnes and Nobel a couple weekends ago, and they had all the Huger Games stuff; posters, books, shirts. I wanted to go crazy and get it all, I had to refrain and I will just buy the movie tickets instead. I heard that they are expecting that premier weekend it will break all the records previously set, by Twilight, Harry Potter.

Here are a couple interesting websites:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hunger_games/ - It got good reviews from the critics….wow!

This one is for the major fans: http://shop.cafepress.com/hungergamesmovie

Right or Left?

I was reading for tuesdays class in Text and Contacts and they have a whole paragraph donated to the explanation of left handness. Now two of my three brothers are left handed....so i personally find this very funny.

" Right means 'correct' as well as the oppisoite of 'left' while left in Latian is 'sinister,' which has come to meant 'evil'; the Irish word ciotage, used to discribed left-handed people, also means "a very strange person"; the Portuguese word for a left handed person, canhoto, also refered to the devil at one time, and canhestro means 'clumsy' in Mandarin..." (TC, 32)

This paragraph just stood out to me, one because I found it funny but also because 'Left-Hand' is in the title of the new and interesting book we are reading in class. Left means all these crazy, different thing than what i think of when I see people write left handed, or do anything with their left hand, but i thought it was humorous in the book just because the book is so far from my normal style of reading, that the book just seemed to be very left handed, not 'sinister' or anything just very strange and it took me a bit to get into it.

I wonder if Ursula Le Guin wrote left handed???

You can also follow this link to findout more....I thought it was pretty cool...

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/famous.html