Green Lantern

Is not that bad.

Which I know is damning it with faint praise but it wasn't as wonderful as Thor, or as arghglarglfarb as X-Men: First Class (don't look at me in that tone of voice, you try coming up with one word for that film). It's not actually bad but it has the same problems at the first Fantastic Four, in that it's not actually good either.

Fic, films and the book meme

Final call for the X-men Movieverse ficathon -



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Semi-related RL story, a guy tried to pick me up using the word groovy. I stopped laughing long enough to turn him down, but someone really ought to tell him that hasn't worked since the 60s and right now it really doesn't work on anyone who has seen X-men:First Class.

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Film related, I got forwarded the Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy trailer (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/jun/30/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-traiker?CMP=twt_fd). Mostly it seems to be every kind of wrong (sorry wishtheworst, you might have got a lot of this on twitter), every single solid kind of wrong it could be which is annoying because I love pretty much every actor involved.

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Now that I have finished the 30 days of tv meme, and the music one and the film one, I think it's high time for the book one, as pinched from opera142.

Day 01 - Best book you read last year

I'm really bad at keeping records of what I read, plus I re-read books a lot. I've also been on a bit of a non-fiction kick and I find them harder to compare.

Probably though it would be between:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/0230748694 [other booksellers exist /bbc]) which was really interesting but maybe a bit too gonzo for my taste.

How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers - (http://www.amazon.com/How-Things-Are-Made-Automobiles/dp/1579122744) because how things are made is one of those things that interests me and has interested me for a long time.

The Panda's Thumb (http://www.amazon.com/Pandas-Thumb-Reflections-Natural-History/dp/0393308197/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8&qid=1309453534&sr=1-1) because I love the way Gould writes.

( The Other Days )