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Any House fans on my friendslist who happen to have massive amounts of money available and don't already read her journal,*

tightropegirl, who is a writer on the show, has posted about a charity auction for Hugh Laurie's cane, used in the pilot and first season.

* I looked at her friendslist and, amazingly, I think there are a few of you I see squee about House regularly who don't read her journal. It's rarely updated, but still interesting.

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Wow. That is an awesomely entertaining and informative journal. I don't watch television anymore! And it's still a good read!

When I worked on Dark Angel I created a character, one of Max's missing siblings, who as a child was the mythmaker of the group. He kept them from losing faith in themselves by telling stories in the darkness of the dormitory, stories with heroes and spirits and demons, and now that Max is all grown up and the group is scattered and in hiding, she finds that people are being murdered according to the mythological details of those childhood stories. Her beloved storyteller has grown into a serial killer.

This is almost exactly the plot of 20th Century Boys. (1st arc -- 2nd is set in a cult-run dystopian future society, what I keep saying would be cool to see in Death Note.)

In other news, I've wandered over the Web, and like everyone I read Ursula LeGuin's account of her displeasure with the Earthsea production....I tuned in for a little while, and thought how lightly it had gotten off. It at least was turned into something meaningless and forgettable, offensive only to those who knew what might have been.

When I heard Ghibli was doing the remake I thought it was good that someone with a larger stake in selling to story was doing it, because they'd do a better job than some minor adaption for television. I never considered that the higher level of exposure could be a bad thing. (By the by, I read the Wizard of Earthsea, but with great difficulty. I don't think I've liked any of LeGuinn's novels, though if I reread them now I probably would.)

I've read several LeGuin novels, and the Earthsea novels are the only ones I've liked or reread. ISTR her short stories were better, but they still all fall into that 1960/70s sociological SF genre that I just don't like, for the most part.

Wait, I take it make. I did like A Ring of Endless Light because it had a protagonist my age (just older) and telepathic dolphin communication. I didn't like that sequel, though, that was set in Antartica. My parents stole a book from me to prop up their dresser -- completely ruining it in the process -- and I remember asking them why they had chosen to use a Ring of Endless Light (before that, Dragonquest) and not a book I didn't care about, like Troubling a Star or A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

I also liked Catwings, which I did not associate with her for until much, much later.

...take it back. I don't know where "make" came from.

Nah, those are Madeleine L'Engle, not LeGuin. :D

I read the first three Wrinkle in Time books over and over, although I didn't really understand what was going on. The description of the tesseract in A Swiftly Tilting Planet intrigued me, because at the time I was totally into anything that smacked of teleportation or telepathy. Then I read the fourth book, and was confused and not in a good way and haven't gone back since. But Charles Wallace might have been where I got a taste for quirky geniuses.

I remember reading A Ring of Endless Light and liking it for the telepathic dolphins, but I don't remember anything else. And I was sorely disappointed at reading other of her YA novels and finding them to be boring because they didn't have telepathy or teleportation or anything like that. :)

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