#murmurandshout

[taekwonjew]

murmurandshout replied to your post “After the latest Netflix additions, I was happy to find both Deceptive...”

Magician-related book rec: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, if you haven't read it already

Ooh, I have read it. I was also thinking about re-reading Kavalier and Clay (not the only reason, but part of it). Actually, (strange for me, I know) I was thinking more along the lines of non-fiction.

s0lid replied to your post “After the latest Netflix additions, I was happy to find both Deceptive...”

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2013/07/08/mixing-business-with-pleasure-johnnie-tos-drug-war/

Ooh, I had saved that article when he posted it, but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder! I wish there had been some discussion about two major set pieces/plot points and their similarities to versions we've seen in recent Hollywood movies, and how much better and more elegantly they were handled here. But I did love the points about how he doesn't hold the viewers' hand with too much (or hardly any at all, really) exposition. One of the many things I love about Johnnie To.

everythingsgonegreen replied to your post “After the latest Netflix additions, I was happy to find both Deceptive...”

The Ricky Jay doc was fun. No more having to look up YouTube clips. They're all in one place now

I want to watch it again already.

everythingsgonegreen replied to your post “After the latest Netflix additions, I was happy to find both Deceptive...”

I was already digging Drug War a lot, and the ending just put it over the top for me

...I want to watch it again already =)

[ricktimus]

murmurandshout replied to your photo: Click-through to read So I have this little annual...

RICK. That story is amazing. Isabelle is a very lucky little girl. (P.S. You made me cry, you jerk.)

Tears. That is my gift for you all. Happy Christmas!

[ricktimus]

It's not coming there at all??! :((((

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz never came out here, either. I figured after Scott Pilgrim, which did come out, this last one had a good chance, but that was totally me forgetting that we can’t have nice things.

[misterphilips]

The man is a menace and a blessing.

Sarah being right about Tom Hiddleston

[ricktimus]

murmurandshout replied to your post: American Gods de tu Gaiman va a ser una serie de HBO. Él puede que esté involucrado. Reactions?

It’s still fairly low on my list too but after reading it a second time, I was able to see more of what he was trying to do and get more of the incredibly subtle references. There are some things going on in that book that are very very easy to miss.

That's what I keep thinking, reflecting on the book. I read it back when I was... 19, I think? And that was the period where I was just plodding my way through most of Gaiman's bibliography, so I'm pretty sure there must be things that flew right past my brains. And it's not the book's fault that it was overshadowed by things like Sandman and precious, perfect pearls like Stardust. So I do need to read it again, sometime. Still think Shadow's a silly name, though.

Also, related: I just finished reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane about an hour ago and I just want to wrap that book around me like a warm blanket on a cold winter night.

[harperperennial]

What's the difference between The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything? Both by Simon Winchester, both about the genesis of the OED. Is one a sort of re-release of the other, or did Winchester manage to write two entirely different books about how a dictionary started?

We published The Professor and the Madman in August 1999, and in it Winchester focused on the strange case of one of the most prolific contributors to the first edition of the OED: W. C. Minor, an American who sent most of his quotation slips from an insane asylum. Oxford University Press (natch) published The Meaning of Everything in October 2003, and this was a fuller, beginning-to-end history of the OED. After we published The Professor and the Madman, OUP asked Simon to write a more complete history and he obliged; The Professor/Madman story is included in The Meaning of Everything, but briefly.

[ricktimus]

murmurandshout replied to your quote: People couldn’t become truly holy unless they also...

One of my favorite books of all time ever

Yes it is.

[ricktimus]

murmurandshout replied to your photo: At my godmother’s house. Finding old treasures...

That’s the printing I have!

I knew I had seen them on Tumblr before! How shiny. I totally brought them home with me.