Something bad is gonna happen, I can feel it.
Cameron on his approach to Jurassic Park: βBut when I saw the film, I realised that I was not the right person to make the film, he was. Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been aliens with dinosaurs, and that wouldn't have been fair."Dinosaurs are for 8-year-olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that. His sensibility was right for that film, I'd have gone further, nastier, much nastier."
Source: https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/07/titanic-director-james-cameron-jurassic-park-steven-spielberg_n_1864996.html
What other movies would be totally different or would you liked to have seen with a new director?
The increasingly-depraved debuts of Oreos with more stuffing indicate unstable amounts of greed and leverage in the system, serving as an immediate indicator of that the makings of a market crash are in place. Conversely, when the Oreo team reduces the amount of icing in their treats, markets tend to have great bull runs until once again society demands to push the boundaries of how much stuffing is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreo_varieties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_and_bear_markets
1974: Double Stuf Oreo released. Dow Jones crashes 45%. FTSE drops 73%.
1987: Big Stuf Oreo released. Black Monday, a 20% single-day crash and a following bear market.
1991: Mini Oreo introduced. Smaller icing ratios coincide with the 1991 Japanese asset price bubble, confirming the correlation works both ways and a reduction of Oreo icing may be a potential solution to preventing a future crash.
2011: Triple Double Oreo introduced. S&P drops 21% in a 5-month bear market
2015: Oreo Thins introduced. A complete lack of icing causes an unprecedented bull run in the S&P for years
2019: The Most Stuf Oreo briefly introduced. Pulled off the shelf before any major market damage could occur.
2021: The Most Stuf Oreo reintroduced. Market response: ???
I love Oreos. I just donβt think the flavor of traditional milk is very good. I think most people dip their cookies for the sogginess that you get, so I think water does a fine job. People always freak out when they see me dipping my cookies in water, but I donβt see the issue!
As the title says. So annoying to pick up a book, read the intro and have the whole thing ruined.
I understand things pass into common knowledge and old things get ruined on the internet but the book itself shouldn't be ruining it.
Sometimes the novels aren't even over a hundred years old and they just straight up tell you what happens. I love analysis but put it AFTER the novel not before.
The literary canon is absolutely enormous. There is literally no reason to assume everyone who's reading has done so before. There's always going to be first time readers.
Sorry about the rant but just had Brothers Kamarazov ruined by such an intro.
Edit: Some interesting discussion raised here but one thing I've responded and I want to point out about comment on how plot doesn't matter.
No novel was intended to have the foreknowledge of it being being a classic when first published. If the author had wanted it to be spoiled, they would deliberately have done so in the opening.
To use Dostoevsky as an example, I want HIM to take me through the psychogical journey and reflection of faith as HE wrote it to be so. Not somebody telling me that he does so, how he does it and change how Dostoevsky had intended for me to read the book e.g. not knowing. You definitely lose something with foreknowledge.
This isn't to say they're unreadable. It's pretty hard to avoid spoilers and I've read loads of classics where it didn't affect my enjoyment.
But there is something special about being able to enjoy a classic without complete knowledge and again, this is how the writers intended it. Just stick the analysis after the story.
It's just a ruff draught for now.
I'm a Swedish Fantasy author. My first novel got published last year, written in swedish. I'm also a big lover of fantasy books since childhood. Here in Sweden, fantasy isn't a big genre like in the Anglo-American world. Not from lack of readers, but from the lack of interest from the big publishing houses. Crime novels are king here in Sweden. The big genre. The one that every swede and their cat reads. Feelgood has a pretty big precence as well, as long with romance and non fiction. The fantasy books that sell in many copies here are mostly translated from english. Despite this a small but dedicated band of authors, book fans and small publishing houses have begun to write, read and publish swedish fantasy novels. I am one of the authors. As the scene is small, we support each other as authors, and as fans.
Having been on this scene since 2015, I've noticed that many of the swedish fantasy novels are of really high quality. I'm talking Brandon Sandersson, Joe Abercrombie, Robert Jordan, Scott Lynch etc kind of quality. I'm reading a book right now, "SkΓ€rvor av en brusten vΓ€rld" (Shards of A Broken World) by swedish author Matias Kuldkepp. His book is a 10/10 Masterpiece. Easily one of the best books I've ever read. If Kuldkepp was english/american, and famous, he would be hailed as the new Sandersson. And he deserves to become famous. His books deserves to become world wide bestsellers. Instead his books will be sold in a few hundred copies at most, and wont be translated to english, since that is expensive for a small time author to afford. And since agents only want to get the publishing rights for books that's allready famous in their home countries, that is a really hard problem. It is the same thing with another swedish fantasy trilogy I've been reading since 2016. The last part came out this year, really high quality. With an awesome story, world and characters.
I don't know what to do about this. Obviously I'm partial as an author myself. I want the swedish fantasy novels to succeed as much as possible. I dream of them becoming translated by a big, english/american publishing house some day. Not only my own novel and the sequels I'm writing, but every good swedish fantasy novel. Simply put you english/american/world wide readers good in english don't know what you are missing! I'm feeling frustrated and just want to went. If people have soutions that would be awesome. If people are understanding that's equally good.
Iβve been seeing a lot of stuff celebrating Pride month around the place lately.
For example tonight I saw a campaign on social media about the discrimination that trans people can experience.
Iβm a 40 year old Aussie bloke who grew up in a pretty conservative and homophobic environment. I definitely said a lot of homophobic things myself growing up. Many people around me did, it was normalised. I say that as a point of shame, not as an excuse.
After I watched the trans discrimination stuff tonight I had strong feeling of frustration. I had to focus for a while to understand what I was feeling before I finally realised - it hit me like an epiphany, which is a rare event in my Homer Simpson-like brain.
As an Aussie might say, who gives a ratβs ass what sexuality or gender someone else is? I mean, unless you want to date them or sleep with them. But otherwise I donβt care. Why would anyone care?
I know there are many βexplanationsβ for peopleβs hateful behaviour but when you really think about it objectively itβs so weird to care!
And not just sexuality but race or disability or whatever. Why wouldnβt your default policy be to treat everyone with the same basic decency and respect? And if someone wants me to call them βheβ or βsheβ or βtheyβ or βxeβ or anything else I will do so without a second thought. Costs me nothing!
Perhaps this comes across as self congratulatory like βarenβt I wonderful for not being hateful to particular groups of peopleβ. Iβm not looking for praise at all. Let me get to the point.
What altered my perspective so much? How did I change from being someone who casually thought and said discriminatory things into being someone who finds the idea of discrimination puzzling and immature?
After giving it a lot of thought I honestly believe all the sci fi / fantasy books I have read after getting hooked 15 years ago have played a big part.
So many books with incredibly diverse races of people / creatures living side by side.
So many books that explore ideas that I hadnβt considered in the past.
On the topic of sexuality for example, I read a book called Ancillary Justice and every character is referred to as βsheβ, and it also has some androgyny. The one that really blew my mind was The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. I admit it was a bit tough to get into at first but Iβm so glad I persisted and finished it. Itβs set on a world filled with genderless people! The whole premise and the way it discussed how gender infl
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Personally I do not enjoy Oreo cookies at all. I consider that Oreo flavour adds a great touch to cakes, ice cream, donuts and so on. It goes well with almost every sweet and you can improve the texture too, by adding crushed oreo cookie on the top of what candy you're eating.
On the other hand, the original Oreo taste is boring and bland. Even dipping it in milk won't change it that much
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