Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster)'s Blog – November 2011 Archive (3)
Niel Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book"
Listen, Jena. Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book is a ghostlier, deadlier, more joyful channeling of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. An infant’s parents are murdered, and the baby narrowly escapes the killer. Not into a jungle, though: into an old English graveyard. The Bagheera equivalent here is Silas, neither living nor dead (probably a vampire). Rather than wolves, two ghosts adopt the boy. The murderer is not a tiger, but a monstrous man…
ContinueAdded by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on November 30, 2011 at 8:30am — 1 Comment
Originalists
Jena did you know Die Hard was a book first? Nothing Lasts Forever, by Roderick Thorp, renamed Die Hard later to tie in with the movie. From what I can tell, it’s a good thing the Bruce Willis flick is not a faithful adaptation.
This got me thinking about originalists, who…
ContinueAdded by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on November 29, 2011 at 6:00am — No Comments
Cities Without Their Books
Listen, Jena, after that great lunch you whipped up yesterday I showed your brother my newly organized library and talked our way into the idea that books and stories make places and experiences immeasurably better.
Phrases like “those who can’t do teach” and “get your nose out of a book” suggest that reading about some exciting place is a poor or cowardly man’s way of seeing it for himself. The idea there is that reading is a poor imitation of actual experience.
I’m…
ContinueAdded by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on November 28, 2011 at 10:30am — 2 Comments
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