Creep to the meep.

LeGuin's work is truly powerful and absolutely beautiful. One of her best skills I think is her allusions to fantastical elements that never quite get explained - such as to mythical creatures, magical artifacts, and old powers. She never quite fills in all the details, and allows the reader to wonder, ponder, and…

That's fair CJA, I apologize.

Gospel.

Hear hear.

Grossman's a myopic twit, and his characters are rampant exaggerations on that theme. I've never had more considerable hatred for fictional characters, and the "event" that happens to Julia in book two is beyond disturbing - its just plain unnecessary.

The ocean is a desert with its life underground, and the perfect disguise above!

Seriously. Awkward as hell ain't it?

This sounds really interesting, but I'm hoping the excerpt above isn't terribly indicative of the rest of his writing - passive voice during an action sequence coupled with meandering tangential descriptions to round out sentences? C'mon.

Ejiofor would be kick ass. I'm totally for it. I still can't get over his performance as the Operative in Serenity.

And it's not already Paul Dano because....?

And the series shall be called "Eliens". Thank you.

But...its ELO man!

Shi'ar Empire: Lookin' Weird At Every Decade.

At the end of the world, the only type of sex, is one-afternoon-in-an-abandoned-drugstore stands.

One night I went to a heavy metal concert/Troma film festival. It was the greatest thing I have ever attended ever, ever.

This leads me to ask - why do all supposedly true literary fiction authors have a struggling writer as the main character in their work?

It's the absolute best

David Robert Jones! Great to see the good ole ZFT workin' them Fringe angles again. I went back to watch the Season 1 finale last week just to watch him.

Arrakis: Maybe YOU are the qwisatz haderach!