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    Moorcock To Write Doctor Who

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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    oh my gawd. oh my gawd oh my gawd....

    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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    Image of MagnoliaX12 MagnoliaX12
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    Where the hell is my Elric movie already? #doctorwho
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/13/09

    @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
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    I am incredibly depressed that the headline made me snigger. #doctorwho
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    Image of Carrespondent Carrespondent
    11/13/09

    @Davio: It is ironic that just as the creator of "Queer as Folk" leaves, Who gets Moorcock. #doctorwho
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    Image of Davio Davio
    11/14/09

    @Carrespondent: I think I might love you. #doctorwho
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    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
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/13/09

    @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
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    11/13/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: *golf claps* #doctorwho
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/13/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Okay, you win.

    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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    Image of hangingfire hangingfire
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    I think my little fannish head just exploded. This is marvellous. Two of my favorite things together at last! #doctorwho
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    Image of Barnabus Barnabus
    11/13/09

    @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
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    Michael Moorcock fucked with my teenage head so hard when his bio in Breakfast in the Ruins said he'd died of lung cancer.

    Edited to add: Eoin Colfer can suck it.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    This can't bode well for the Doctor's companions. #doctorwho
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/13/09

    @Moff: My thoughts exactly.

    Also, it's probably just as well that The Doctor doesn't have a sister. #doctorwho
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    ah, the soul-stealing sonic screwdriver #doctorwho
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    Blood, souls and long floppy scarves for my lord Arioch. #doctorwho
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    11/13/09

    @Rasselas: I love you. Tell no one of this.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/13/09

    In reply to Moorcock To Write Doctor Who
    You want to see what Moorcock writing Doctor Who would look like? Watch this: #doctorwho
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    Image of Rumtum Rumtum
    11/13/09

    @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
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/13/09

    @Rumtum: A tasty world, indeed. #doctorwho
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    Image of dulceserenidad dulceserenidad
    10/27/09

    In reply to Are the Novel's Days Numbered?
    The packed library and adoring children at the Ray Bradbury signing I attended say this isn't true.
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    10/27/09

    In reply to Are the Novel's Days Numbered?
    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
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    Image of Brian Fowler Brian Fowler
    10/27/09

    In reply to Are the Novel's Days Numbered?
    Figures. As soon as I start to be a writer, the novel's o it's way out. #philiproth
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    Image of Merlin2008 Merlin2008
    10/27/09

    In reply to Are the Novel's Days Numbered?
    To the commenters on this board, as a true literary geek, let me just say, 'Thank you.' #philiproth
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    Image of Inkymonkey Inkymonkey
    10/27/09

    In reply to Are the Novel's Days Numbered?
    Except that YA sales are way up, and have been rising for some time. Maybe people just don't want to read PHILLIP EFFING ROTH* anymore, hmm?

    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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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/27/09

    @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
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    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    10/27/09

    @Inkymonkey: Agreed!

    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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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    10/27/09

    @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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