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Disturbing moments, and cover art.
Apr. 26th, 2007 12:45 pmI picked up Gary A. Braunbeck's In Silent Graves at the library's used book store, and started reading it the other day.
First, I was actually disturbed. (That doesn't happen often. Pleasantly creeped out, grossed out, annoyed, disappointed (all too often), mildly sad or happy, those I get a lot. Disturbed, not so much.) It was a brief scene and a relatively mild effect--nothing as intense as reading "The Screwfly Solution" or watching the end of Hannibal--but damn. I am not used to novels that can do that. I am impressed.
Second, it comes across as *intelligent*, which is different from simply smart in some way I cannot put my finger on. Very information-rich, and I am not seeing any of the talking-down-to-the-audience or playing up of shared assumptions that I usually spot in horror.
Worth picking up.
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If cropped shots of underwear models are NSFW, then so's the link. But as Leigh Walton says:
So apparently the Governor of Oregon is trying to live on $21 of groceries for a week. This has stuck in my brain as a rather neat factoid (yes I know that he's got help not typically available; I still like the idea), and I am moved to go home for lunch. The weather's nice outside[1], and the walk would be not bad, and all such small practicalities.
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Is it just me, or are there a lot more facial piercings out there this year?
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[1] Cloudy, cool, chance of rain, filthy daystar not immediately visible.
First, I was actually disturbed. (That doesn't happen often. Pleasantly creeped out, grossed out, annoyed, disappointed (all too often), mildly sad or happy, those I get a lot. Disturbed, not so much.) It was a brief scene and a relatively mild effect--nothing as intense as reading "The Screwfly Solution" or watching the end of Hannibal--but damn. I am not used to novels that can do that. I am impressed.
Second, it comes across as *intelligent*, which is different from simply smart in some way I cannot put my finger on. Very information-rich, and I am not seeing any of the talking-down-to-the-audience or playing up of shared assumptions that I usually spot in horror.
Worth picking up.
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If cropped shots of underwear models are NSFW, then so's the link. But as Leigh Walton says:
Jeez, Chris, if we wanted REALISM in our comics we’d go to Alex Ross or something.========
What? Oh.
So apparently the Governor of Oregon is trying to live on $21 of groceries for a week. This has stuck in my brain as a rather neat factoid (yes I know that he's got help not typically available; I still like the idea), and I am moved to go home for lunch. The weather's nice outside[1], and the walk would be not bad, and all such small practicalities.
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Is it just me, or are there a lot more facial piercings out there this year?
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[1] Cloudy, cool, chance of rain, filthy daystar not immediately visible.
