too hot to blog
It’s pretty steamy here and I’m not feeling up to doing a real blog post, so here are some links.
As I talked about last time, Stevie One is finished. I was going to post a link to an HTML version for e-readers, but then I started spotting typos and decided to give it another week. So, now, with fewer typos, here is a link to Stevie One, a very nice novella, all in one handy file for e-readers. Or you can read it on the web here. If you do read it, I’d be very interested in your comments.
I’ve thought quite a bit about Prometheus since I saw it. Some movies you think about after the credits; some you don’t. With Prometheus, this was not so much an indication of quality but a reflection of how it was very unsatisfying on some levels, while being really enjoyable on others.
I found a couple of interesting article about Prometheus (and Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey) on Jim Emerson’s blog:
(I will point out that one thing which makes the image he talks about in the first post powerful, in the context of the movie, is that all of the human characters in the movie are in the frame, and all of them are in the middle of a situation which is – though they don’t know it yet – almost completely out of their control. They’re all wondering what they should do, but it doesn’t much matter what they do from here on in. Something is taking its course.)
I read an interesting post over at YA Indie called, “With ebooks, are novels ever finished?” One thing about electronic publishing (web and e-book) is that you can keep on making revisions pretty much forever. Which doesn’t make it a good idea, of course.
I’m now 10% of the way through Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon) and I am now approaching the place where I quit when I was reading it in paper. I intend to push through this part, at least, and see if things get better later on. I think I was really enjoying the tone of the first part, with the aeronautical adventures of the Chums of Chance, and I got disappointed when the book “grew up.” I’ll see what happens next. One advantage of the e-book format is that, when I encounter one of the thousands of characters and can’t remember who this one is, I can do a search and remind myself.
Finally, there was festive dancing all over the blogosphere (or there should have been) because Jo Eberhardt over at The Happy Logophile has started posting again. 🙂