My girlfriend is currently reading The Three Musketeers for the first time, which naturally fills me with delight. That she is reading the most swashbuckling of all novels, by my favorite author of all time, and reading the same beaten copy that began my love for Dumas, is wonderful. It’s also a great way to [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Done aaaaaaand… Done.
Posted in Administrative, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff, Rants, Swashbuckling on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have, so far, done my best to avoid talking much about my own writing. After all, what’s the point of being so self-indulgent, especially when I don’t actually have anything published which I can shamelessly shill? Nonetheless, the feeling of a weight off the shoulders is incredible right now, as I just finished editing [...]
Lensman Movies? Really?
Posted in Doc Smith, Movies, Sci-Fi on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Howard in Talks for the Lensman Series
Huh, not sure how I feel about this, but chances of it happening are still pretty slim anyway. They’d have to write pretty much all new dialogue, that’s for damn sure… but would that ruin the charm?
Twenty Thousand Leagues Beneath Comprehension
Posted in Rants, Sci-Fi, Verne on January 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(I found these great pictures at The Annotated Jules Verne, a website that collects lots of beautiful and fun old artwork from Verne’s works. There’s a ton of stuff there, and I highly recommend browsing it.)
I hate translation problems. Part of this probably comes from growing up the son of a film buff (and a [...]
Bullets Fear Me
Posted in Pirates, Reviews, Salgari, Swashbuckling on January 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So, I know that I have already rambled a good deal about the insanely-popular, but virtually unheard-of to English-speakers, series character known as Sandokan. (For your edification, I previously discussed him here and here.)
Having now read the first book, Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem, I must say that I can see what all the fuss [...]
Come Out! We Want To Kill You!
Posted in Horror, Reviews, Sci-Fi on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know it’s been covered, but I felt that I should say a little something about I Am Legend, which I just read (and which only takes a few days to breeze through, at the longest).
I first heard of the story, and its bizarre title, when some of the new version was filmed outside my [...]
Sandokaaaaaan…. Sandokaaaaaaan…
Posted in Pirates, Salgari, Swashbuckling on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry I’ve hardly been here, but I needed recuperative time back home with the family. On both plane flights, however, I amused myself with the first book in the aforementioned Sandokan series. It’s quite a lot of fun in an adolescent sort of way, and I don’t mean that as a [...]
…replied Aramis, raising his hat with one hand, and drawing his sword with the other.
Wherein a fledgling author looks at literary (and a smidge of cinematic) fiction, mostly of the adventurous variety, accompanied by a smattering of musings on his own burgeoning body of work--but not so much as to be overwhelming, or more self-indulgent than the average blog.
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