“excellent movies” you say? You mean there’s a third set of movies, neither Bakshi’s bad animation nor Jackson’s travesties with snowboarding elves and comic relief dwarves that we can watch?

I saw the second it came out and I came out of it feeling like I liked it, but I needed to digest it more. Here are my digested thoughts:

Punch Drunk Love is criminally underrated as a film. I wish it wasn’t because that film resonated with me so much.

That’s a great argument to centuries of murder and oppression due to an overly zealous relationship with your imaginary friend.

Just finished watching it. Wow, what a turd. I can see why it was delayed and then dumped on Netflix.

I grew up in a conservative Christian household, so there were lots and lots of things that I wasn’t allowed to watch. I couldn’t watch the Thunder Cats or the Smurfs or He-Man because they contained magic. Disney movies were okay for some reason though. The aforementioned Carmen was definitely okay. I still have…

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I’m still furious the Nobel committee ran out of eligible male writers to give it to and lobbed one at Bob Dylan instead.

Damn. The term “literary titan” cannot be applied any better than to her. Indisputably one of the greatest, most influential SF/Fantasy authors of all time. I’ve read quite a few of her works and count The Dispossessed as one of my favorite novels.

This one really hurts. I was hoping she might get the Nobel in Literature in the next couple of years.

I remember the first book I ever got out of my old school library was this slim, slightly tattered, green hard back. No dust cover, no blurb. No idea why I choose it but I can safely say school, and life in general, would have been a lot harder if I had never read A Wizard of Earthsea. That book and the sequels kept…

Nope. It’s probably far too poignant a time to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. Not going to do it.

Not only one of the great sci fi and fantasy writers but an excellent essay writer, too. I used to give my students selected essays from her collection The Language of the Night, which is a collection of book intros, reviews, lectures, and standalone essays with some of her very best writing.

This is heartbreaking, I can’t verbalise how important A tale of Earthsea was for me growing up.

This is a huge, huge bummer. She was a tremendously gifted, visionary writer. The Left Hand of Darkness changed the way I looked at the world, what more could you ask for from a novel?

Well, shit.

She is one of my very favorites. Her Earthsea series is one of the ones I reread as often as I can. And her short stories are masterful. RIP to an incredible writer.

No Children will always be associated with that particularly brutal sequence in Moral Orel. Say what you will about that series, but it knew how to effectively use its soundtrack to the nth degree.

Six notifications and a Netflix series.

At least he only grabbed his genitals and not hers, unlike The American President.