but you know, people like what they like, whatever
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
At least those people are reading something. Hey, guess what? I'm reading Sister Carrie, which Jenny lent me, which takes place here in the 1890s. It is very enjoyable. I want to be home reading it in bed.
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
that's true. i got depressed last night, listening to a teacher talk about how so many kids seem to actively dislike reading these days.
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Ahh I see. Well, I suppose it helps to have some perspective on what "really good" means, or who's telling you so. But I've never stopped reading YA so whaddo I know? :)
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Also if you think YA literature is just for kids and too simple/silly/immature/unsophisticated for adults who should really be reading Dickens or Amis or White Teeth or something, you could stand to broaden your understanding of YA. Sorry to be cranky, but it's true.
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
this is what I'm in the middle of:
http://www.amazon.com/Driver-Dangerous-Pursuit-Outlaw-Racing/dp/0061227935
Entertaining, and quite interesting at times, but wow the guy is an asshole.
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Won't someone answer my plea?
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Tell him what you want for xmas.
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's start a SVHigh revivalist movement. Bruce removed Jessica's bikini top in the pool! Elizabeth keeps finding her clothes crumpled in a pile on her sister's floor!
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Her. You racist.
xpost
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
kids books are for kids young adults books are for young adults adults books are for adults large print books are for large prince thesauruses are for dinosarauruses picture books are for illiterates internets books is for cum-muters picture pages is for bill cosbies nonfictions is for the truthees fictions is for the liars
― n/a, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Besides, all the books you listed that have been movie-fied, Jordan, aren't just middle school-level, they're also all sci-fi/fantasy specifically, and the bubble of interest in that genre should prob be considered separately from the rise of YA lately -- seeing as how historically everything but the coldest, most technical sci-fi has generally been downgraded in age by publishers and booksellers and the public opinion because of a lingering prejudice that adults "don't" read about things that "aren't real".
The upswelling of YA in the last few years should really be taken as part of the aging of a generation of readers -- there was a partic large bunch of children born about 12-15 years ago, and they've been carrying the industry with them as they aged. Five or eight years ago the surge was in picture books, and movies were made of Jumanji and that silly Christmas thing about the jingle bell (a great book but ew, TOM HANKS??), and others. Harry Potter just helped to open the way for those kids to read SF/F, but the age group was already poised to latch onto SOMEthing.
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't read fiction that is real.
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, me neither except for middlegrade and YA. I think I lose interest in people older than about 14 unless they're very good at remembering how to be 14 (or younger).
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
That all may be true, but still, I don't remember adults being aware of/into the books I was reading in middle school.
xpost, you mean only fake f1ction?
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I like reading about old people!
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
hey laurel, something you wrote about BF being offputting made me think that you would really like plexi 3. see if ian can burn you some of their singles.
xpost- I think I lose interest in people older than about 14 unless they're very good at remembering how to be 14
laurel kay letourneau.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I've seen plexi 3, oddly enough, with LiveFastDie at gl@sslands. I'm not sure they made a giant impression but maybe I was distracted and/or it was an off night? Certainly didn't DISlike!
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
how long ago was it? they haven't even been together a year yet!
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Over the summer, with Theresa and sleep...it was warm weather. The rest of the line up was LFD and Aa and a very Joy Div-y post-punk band from Paris called Frustration.
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i know the frustration, on s-s records? i still think you'd dig the plexi 3 singles.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah! And yes, you're probably right -- I like what they have on mice pace.
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
apropos of nothing, just saw it elsewhere and it made me laugh:
http://funkyimg.com/u/50442AngryGirl.jpg
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Wu-Tang is for the children.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Here come the Martain Martians, And I wouldn't be surprised if they were riding on their Martian bike. And we have to find out right now What kind of flavor do these Martians like.
Here come the Martian Martians And they're riding on their Martian bike Well, we have to find out right now What kind of ice cream do the Martians like? Here come the Martian Martians Why staying in such a cheap hotel? Maybe we should help out the Martians Looks like the Martians ain't doin' too well.
Martian time time time Well, it's Martian rhyme time We got a Martian rhyme for Martian Martian time And the Martians got notebooks in their little hand Well they're strangers in this land Martian time It's Martian Martian time
Well, here come the Martian Martains. They're trying to fight with rocks and sticks Don't the Martians know better? Looks like they're up to their same old tricks. Well, here come the Martian Martians, They got notebooks in their hand. What are they trying to write down? I guess they must be strangers in this land.
Martian rhyme rhyme Well, Martian time time Well, you got Martian rhymes for Martian Martian time. See, the Martians have notebooks in their little hand. See, they're still strangers in this land. Martian time, it's Martian Martian time.
Well, here come the Martians Baking up a Martian cake We better find out right now What kind of flavor do these Martians make. Well, here come the Martian Martians, There're Martian schoolgirls too Well, I like the Martian schoolgirls, And I hope they like me too. Martian rhyme rhyme rhyme It's Martian time time time You got the Martian rhymes for Martian Martian time.
The Martians have notebooks in their little hand Because they're strangers in this land. Martian rhyme, it's Martian Martian time. Well, here come the Martian Martians Well, they're baking up a Martian pie I hope the Martians like me And give some to I. Well, here come the Martian Martians, Well, they're setting up a Kool-Aid stand. Where's their financial advisor? Somebody should take him by the hand. Martian rhyme rhyme rhyme Martian time time time You got a Martian rhyme for Martian Martian time. And the Martians have notebooks in their little hand They're still strangers in this land Martian rhyme, it's Martian Martian time.
― n/a, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
that was after j.r. had lost his already tenuous grip on reality.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Jordan, Friday, December 7, 2007 5:00 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link this made me larf
i just finished grading one set of exams and i have some news for you. guys, just so you know these are the other ways that you can spell "Ecuadorean" (which is the NYT's preferred spelling) * ecuadoreas * ecuatidians * equatos
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
What about equator?
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
no, equatos
i cannot stop laughing
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://t-rex.hobix.com/archives/sparks.jpg
I'm reading Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision, and the narrator (who, to be fair, isn't so sharp when it comes to the world around him) calls them "Ecuadoris."
― jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha oh god
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
equations
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, FYI The ancient pyramids of the Aztecs were made 100 years ago.
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
NO. Wait, really? Can't be.
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
so THAT'S who built the pyramids!
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
100 year old Aztecs.
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
that's what my dad said
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
someone explain this crossword clue: big foot? = EEE
is that a european shoe size or something?
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
width? or maybe it's like OMG BIGFOOT EEEEEEEEEEEE
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
EEE indicates width in a shoe size. It also shows up in a lot of crosswords.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Tausig's puzzle this week was the easiest of his I've ever done: I did it on the way home the other night, and I was done before I got to Fullerton.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i agree, super easy (both the inkwell one and the one in the Onion)
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i like doing easy crosswords though :>
Yeah, I meant the Inkwell one. Haven't done the Onion one yet.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
the past couple of weekends sarah and i have taken the onion and reader crosswords with us to brunch and traded them back and forth while waiting for our food. most obnoxious cute couple thing to do y/n?
― n/a, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
y
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
no, that's a good system
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
more obnoxious than doing it: braggin on the internet about doing it
;)
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
but if i don't brag, who will appreciate the beauty of our pure love?
― n/a, Friday, 7 December 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link