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May. 4th, 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quidditchgrrlI did manage to watch a movie and finish a book. It's weird to be home on a Thursday night (I've worked Thursday nights since 1998, aside for the 18 months I worked at Bowels of Hell). Spoilers behind the cuts, uh-huh.
This movie was roundly panned when it came out, but I don't understand why. Typically I'm a comic-book purist, but this movie's plot didn't bother me. Maybe it was because they cast Trevor as an extremely attractive villian/hero...or maybe because Charlize looked smoking hot with that black hair.
I have always loved the premise of cloning people and especially the idea of what to do with an increasingly infertile population. One of the things I loved about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madlori's Third was that fertility was spontaneous and very rare; this is one of the Darwinian premises: that the most beneficial traits in selectivity are the least heritable. That is, things like longevity are highly heritable (because it really doesn't matter how long you live), but fertility/litter size is a crapshoot across the board. Science!
At least the gorram plot made sense. But god! when she was pulling off her own skin to graft to his...*shudder*
This book is original, I'll give it that. It's told from the point of view of the younger brother of an anorexic teenager. This is the first page:
These are the things you think when you come home to find that your sister has starved herself to death and you have dropped to your knees to revive her:
1. My sister is flat like a board. There's fat guys in the locker room with bigger boobs than she has.
2. When I scream my sister's name into her face, I can hear my father's voice in my own.
3. Where is it you're supposed to press? In the middle, on the side? Left or right?
It does drag in places, since Donnie, in typically teenagerish fashion, makes a lot of the story all about him. Which it is. Both he and his sister Karen try to disappear, each into themselves. Donnie gives up his personality, Karen gives up her body.
It's a quick read, compelling subject matter.
Now, to watch TDS/TCR and go to bed.
This movie was roundly panned when it came out, but I don't understand why. Typically I'm a comic-book purist, but this movie's plot didn't bother me. Maybe it was because they cast Trevor as an extremely attractive villian/hero...or maybe because Charlize looked smoking hot with that black hair.
I have always loved the premise of cloning people and especially the idea of what to do with an increasingly infertile population. One of the things I loved about
madlori's Third was that fertility was spontaneous and very rare; this is one of the Darwinian premises: that the most beneficial traits in selectivity are the least heritable. That is, things like longevity are highly heritable (because it really doesn't matter how long you live), but fertility/litter size is a crapshoot across the board. Science!At least the gorram plot made sense. But god! when she was pulling off her own skin to graft to his...*shudder*
This book is original, I'll give it that. It's told from the point of view of the younger brother of an anorexic teenager. This is the first page:
These are the things you think when you come home to find that your sister has starved herself to death and you have dropped to your knees to revive her:
1. My sister is flat like a board. There's fat guys in the locker room with bigger boobs than she has.
2. When I scream my sister's name into her face, I can hear my father's voice in my own.
3. Where is it you're supposed to press? In the middle, on the side? Left or right?
It does drag in places, since Donnie, in typically teenagerish fashion, makes a lot of the story all about him. Which it is. Both he and his sister Karen try to disappear, each into themselves. Donnie gives up his personality, Karen gives up her body.
It's a quick read, compelling subject matter.
Now, to watch TDS/TCR and go to bed.
