Game is good. Very very good. And they're making a movie, and David Benioff is writing the script (he's the guy I mentioned when we walked past that DVD rental place -- brilliant author). Tis the Alvin Maker series that had me engrossed, though, possibly because I read them in French, and it was one of the best translations I've ever read, from a French Canadian guy -- I love the Quebec jargon.
I was 11 when I met him, and he left me with a very strong impression. I admired him. And still do, in a certain way. I didn't read about certain of his views until much later. Still, he's only ever been kind to us, and got me into sci-fi which I probably wouldn't have otherwise, so it would be foolish and ungrateful of me to condemn him on all levels.
Tis like one of my favourite French writers from the 19th century: a friend of mine became outraged when she saw me reading his work, claiming he was a child molester and that if I didn't put the book down immediately I could only be supportive of that sort of hideous thing.
Why? Why attempt to ruin the pleasure of reading such beautiful, uplifting, inspirational poetry? Why should everything be black or white? Isn't what we produce just as much of a contender for defining who we are as the ideas we choose or not to expose?
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Date: 2007-Sep-13, Thursday 12:52 (UTC)I was 11 when I met him, and he left me with a very strong impression. I admired him. And still do, in a certain way. I didn't read about certain of his views until much later. Still, he's only ever been kind to us, and got me into sci-fi which I probably wouldn't have otherwise, so it would be foolish and ungrateful of me to condemn him on all levels.
Tis like one of my favourite French writers from the 19th century: a friend of mine became outraged when she saw me reading his work, claiming he was a child molester and that if I didn't put the book down immediately I could only be supportive of that sort of hideous thing.
Why? Why attempt to ruin the pleasure of reading such beautiful, uplifting, inspirational poetry? Why should everything be black or white? Isn't what we produce just as much of a contender for defining who we are as the ideas we choose or not to expose?