Lightning Rod Gets The Zot

The Poet's Eye ^ | Lightning Rod

[sionnsar]

There’s always the library too. I found the boxed sets to be somewhat pricey; am working off used bookstore copies now. (It’s not that I can’t afford the boxed set, they just seem priced higher than I think they should be.)

[sionnsar]

G’night & sleep well!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Read them in the order written. There is one "origins" novel and one side store which causes people to try to reorganize them but I have found that with most series the order that the books were written is the best way of reading anything.

Let me look around and see if I have a extra set. I got several box lots of books when I was garage saleing this summer that I have not gone through yet.

I am doing ok. I had a nasty lung infection that lasted for about 3 weeks but I am much better now.

I am glad you have reason to think of me. :)

[Anoreth]

On the other hand, Draco Malfoy wasn’t as hot when he was 16 or 17.

[sionnsar]

Read them in the order written.

I agree completely.

HTB, sorry to hear about your lung infection but glad to hear you're better now.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The worst thing about getting old is that a couple of nights sleep and some Robitussin doesn’t fix you right up any more. :)

[sionnsar]

Sleep and Robitussin weren’t going to fix my feet anyway. *\;^)

[Tax-chick]

No, that’s true. But Lucius Malfoy is hotter every year.

[Tax-chick]

I have not read the Percy Jackson books, so I found the movie mildly cute.

I’m still not very happy with what they did for the Narnia movies. I thought the did “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” all wrong, although I enjoyed “Prince Caspian,” where the original story was so slight that it didn’t much matter what they did with it. Remains to be seen if the take “Dawn Treader” to pieces.

I’m a crank about the text, if I’ve read the text!

[sionnsar]

I’m still not very happy with what they did for the Narnia movies. I thought the did “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” all wrong.

There was a lot that bugged me about that, but to me they got a few scenes pretty much right. Hopefully they'll get "Dawn Treader" right, though the previews I saw today looked more like "swashbuckling action adventure" than I recall from the book. We will see...

[HKMk23]

One morning a few days ago, as I went to enjoy a brief devotional before work, I was verbalizing to God my weariness over a couple of persistent (non-threatening but maddening) health issues. As I picked up my Bible, cutting through the mist of my discontent came that distinct silent thunder of God. "II Corinthians 5" He said, and nothing more. Now, you bible scholars are laughing already because you know what Paul's subject is in that passage, but for the benefit of the rest, I'll quote:

1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
— II Cor. 5:1-4, NIV

In modern English: "Deal with it. It's not as if it's forever."

[Tax-chick]

There is a certain amount of action in the text. Some tournaments, a fine battle with a sea serpent.

I don’t mind when a movie leaves things out from the text, because that’s required to keep from making 40-hour epics. However, I hate it when they leave things out, but then include material - other than minor bits of dialogue - that the screenwriter made up.

If the screenwriter is so great that his material is better than Tolkien’s or Lewis’s, then why doesn’t he write his own completely original characters and plot, instead of mucking with theirs?

[Tax-chick]

Yes, quite so.

[sionnsar]

In the movie previews today, we learned about a movie for next summer that looks like a mix of gritty spaghetti western (for those who remember those) and Steven Spielberg (at his worst) called...

"Cowboys and Aliens"

Looks like a real hoot!

[HKMk23]

Read them in the order written. There is one "origins" novel and one side story which causes people to try to reorganize them...

I'd like to make a case for reading "The Magician's Nephew" first, as this story begins it all. It is in this "origins" story that we learn the background of the dear old professor who figures prominently in a few key moments in "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe." The former explains his perspective in answering some thorny questions in the latter.

Obviously "Prince Caspian" and "The Voyage of The Dawn Treader" must follow those, in order, so they aren't really in question, and "The Last Battle" simply must be — well — last.

It remains, then for the reader to decide their own preference for the inclusion of "A Horse and His Boy" and "The Silver Chair." I've set these second, and sixth in order, respectively, but others might differ.

[HKMk23]

Ooooh! MORE Thanksgiving Dinner.... Bye, now!

[Tax-chick]

From Steven Greydanus' review of HP:

Stuff happens, and later other stuff happens, and in between there’s a lot of moody standing around and angst and stuff.

Sounds like the book to me!

[ThomasThomas]

HP is a book too?

[Anoreth]

Well, considering that I slept through the last movie when I saw it in theaters, but stayed awake through this one..I would cal it more of a success.

[Anoreth]

Well, considering that I slept through the last movie when I saw it in theaters, but stayed awake through this one..I would cal it more of a success.