@MagnoliaX12: probably never unfortuantely.hollywood is to stupid to come up with using those books for movies even though we know it would be kick-ass done right. #doctorwho
I have to admit I have never heard of Moorcock, that I can remember. When I read the title all I can think was "Porn star writing for Who?"
Many of you like this guy so I will look into his books. (please don't kill me for the Porn star reference. I didn't know) #doctorwho
@LittleDragon: Don't worry about it. I saw that they were adding Moorcock to Dr. Who and said to myself.. isn't that how they wound up with Torchwood? #doctorwho
@hangingfire: It's so perfect I just assumed it had already happened at some point. Part of me has always believed the Vanishing Tower was really a TARDIS adrift in time and space. #doctorwho
@bluehinter: Jerry Cornelius, as I live and breath. How's Frank and your mum these days? Let me warm up the Dornier DoX Flying Boat and I'll see you in Angkor Wat, you darling fellow. #doctorwho
Where exactly do all these authors get their millions of dollars from? Strange...
I can't really envision a world without literature, especially not in 25 years. I can see why latin poetry died off, probably because no one speaks latin. #philiproth
@Inkymonkey: I was a skosh more charitable, thinking "maybe people don't want to read the lit'rary kind of novel any more" as opposed to just Philip Roth, but yeah.
Maybe we're booooored with that crap and we're looking for some nice SF, mysteries, romances... #philiproth
There may be more channels on the TV but they are showing mostly crap. My daughter reads more than she watches television. Her books are her most prized possessions. She is in her early teens. In 25 years she will still love her books.
The YA section and Manga section are getting bigger at our local bookstore to meet the demand. Right now they have a buy three and get one free. She is currently writing up her wish list. #philiproth
@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I went to UC Berkeley, and graduated with a degree in English. And I can honestly say that most of the "Literary" novels written, then and now, are self-obsessed pretentious garbage. Too often writers try to create ART, all capitals, and for art's sake they forsake all the things that might have made their book actually entertaining and fun. Then they get all pissy when no one wants to read the droning dreary novel filled with self-important "revelations" and cute tricks of wordplay they've inflicted on us.
Just as the best way to kill a language is to try and freeze it, the best way to kill an artform is to declare that only certain expressions of it are actually "art". People forget that in his day, Shakespeare was considered trashy mass-market stuff, full of violence and murder and lowbrow comedy and sex. In other words, it entertained, and then brought the bigger observations along for the ride.
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dammit! You mean he's not writing a script? I want a moorcock "who" script.
i'm so psyched i've lost my capital letters. #doctorwho
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Many of you like this guy so I will look into his books. (please don't kill me for the Porn star reference. I didn't know) #doctorwho
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Captain Jack *is* Jerry Cornelius, just minus the drug habit and weird incest angle, but he does have the psychotic younger brother! #doctorwho
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Edited to add: Eoin Colfer can suck it.
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Also, it's probably just as well that The Doctor doesn't have a sister. #doctorwho
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I can't really envision a world without literature, especially not in 25 years. I can see why latin poetry died off, probably because no one speaks latin. #philiproth
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To be fair, let's see what his new book is about.
*snip* --The Humbling's hero Simon Axler, an ageing stage actor who has "lost his magic"--
Ooooh!!!! A literary midlife crisis novel. How interesting! How original! How germane! See you all at the midnight release party!!1!
*I.M. is horribly prejudiced against the literati. YMMV. #philiproth
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Maybe we're booooored with that crap and we're looking for some nice SF, mysteries, romances... #philiproth
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There may be more channels on the TV but they are showing mostly crap. My daughter reads more than she watches television. Her books are her most prized possessions. She is in her early teens. In 25 years she will still love her books.
The YA section and Manga section are getting bigger at our local bookstore to meet the demand. Right now they have a buy three and get one free. She is currently writing up her wish list. #philiproth
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Just as the best way to kill a language is to try and freeze it, the best way to kill an artform is to declare that only certain expressions of it are actually "art". People forget that in his day, Shakespeare was considered trashy mass-market stuff, full of violence and murder and lowbrow comedy and sex. In other words, it entertained, and then brought the bigger observations along for the ride.