>>>>>"Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" is based on a book of the same name. Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but my husband enjoyed the book.
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>>>>>"Cowboys and Aliens" was actually a fun movie, assuming you went into it with no preconceptions.
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>>>>>>>"Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter"? Maybe I should watch it first before commenting but this seems like a new low from Hollywood.
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>>>>>>When you say "new low", you ignore or dismiss the immense corpus of truly awful work Hollywood has already produced.
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>>>>>>Mashups are a definite sign of loss of creativity, but not the worst. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies? Cowboys & Aliens, anyone? :)
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>>>>There's a whole genre of this stuff. I've read "Queen Victoria, Demon Slayer" Some of it is kind of clever.
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>>>My TBR stack is completely out of control. There are literally dozens of unread books that I bought fully intending to read, and still do. At least maybe I am confronting the problem. My purchase of more books has slowed almost to a trickle. Yesterday I got an email from Amazon recommending a new biography of Bruce Springsteen, which actually sounds pretty good, and resisted temptation. No no no....
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>>>Since I know you share my love of language, do you get as bemused as me at the serial misuse of the word "literally"? "He literally went through the roof." No, he did not literally go through the roof.
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>>I do share your love of language, though I think I you may be more bemused than I about about the use of the objective case when the implication is "more bemused than I am" ( sorry, couldn't resist, I know we've had that conversation before with Tamar )
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>I don't make those sorts of mistakes because I'm too perfect. ;)
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We already knew that, Alan ;-)