>>>>>"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 find my TBR stack doesn't bother me as much if it is on my Kindle rather than my nightstand where there was some danger of it falling and killing me in my sleep.
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>OK, you got me. I do have grammatical blind spots. For instance, I couldn't define objective case to save my life, not without looking it up. It's misused words or phrases that get me. "I could care less" is another one. Not trying to defend my error. Same church, different pew. So I will take your gentle admonition, ahem.
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>Do you have any feel for the reaction in Cleveland to LeBron and the Heat winning the championship? Any softening at all?

Sports writers pretty much encouraging people to get over it. Saying stuff like this takes a burden off everyone. Personally, I am dazzled when anyone is that good at anything. Heard on the news that he is now among about 6 people in all NBA history to score over 700 in a playoff series. ( and the other names are all folks even know-nothings like me know of :-)

Basketball is a pretty cool game but having never played at any competitive level I'm increasingly aware I don't know what is going on so while I can watch for a while and be dazzled by the athleticism I find I can't focus for a whole game ( especially toward the end when there is so much strategy about fouls and timeouts etc that really slow things down but aren't very meaningful to someone as ignorant as I ) ( albeit someone who is a wizard with objective case :-)