Post-apocalypse Saturday

[oyceter]

I spent most of today obsessively playing sudoku (it's a little scary that I've already gone through all of 9/05) and then reading Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It in a freezing cold Peet's while having a frozen Scharffen Berger mocha.

By the time I was halfway through, I was convinced that I was freezing because volcanoes had erupted and the temperature of the Earth had dropped, that I had to save food, and that I had to watch out for strangers trying to take stuff meant for my family or rats. Afterward, I walked to Borders in a daze and then read vols. 1-4 of After School Nightmare, which is not post-apocalyptic, but is very, very strange. Very strange.

And now I have Children of Men from Blockbuster, and I will watch it now! I just finished the Pfeffer, and most of my brain right now wants to hug my computer and electricity and frozen food and the fact that I have a car with gas! I'm sure watching the movie will further convince me that the world is going to end tomorrow.

I think I'll have interesting dreams tonight...

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

After School Nightmare is very strange! I like the dreamlike quality of it, and the lovely, lovely art.

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Afterward, I walked to Borders in a daze and then read vols. 1-4 of After School Nightmare, which is not post-apocalyptic, but is very, very strange. Very strange.

Aaaaaand this is why I'm obsessed. *grin*

I feel like it's Utena, only all the places where Utena silently screamed "JUNG!" ASN is shouting back "FREUD!"

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Once you watch Children of Men, get the book and read it too. I want to know what you think of it. (Warning: it is not a faithful adaptation. It starts at the same place and end somewhere completely different.)

[littlerhymes]

Yes, Life As We Knew It is wonderful! errr, in an all immersive scary-as-hell glad-it's-not-me way. :) I had much the same kind of reaction, just reading it in a shot and then dazedly hugging my knees afterwards.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Life As We Knew It is a wonderful book. After I finished reading it, I wanted to rush out, buy food and water, lots of blankets, and hoard it. Which isn't exactly the most rational reaction, I guess, but I wanted to be prepared for the apocalypse. Just in case.

[(Anonymous)]

I am not sure whether ASN is going to be the most subversive thing ever or just break my heart by being absolutely and foreclosingly conservative. It adds this entire extra layer of creepy.

I'm not reading the Pfeffer because everyone's descriptions of it freak me out.

--Mely

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Me too. (Just caught up at Mely's.) I am also intrigued that I have no idea where the story is going. Although I am worried that it will end up making some point that I totally disagree with on a political level, as I can't tell at all what the author thinks about the HORRIBLE, STIFLING, AND EVIL gender roles on display.

Also, [spoilers elided] I think that door is extremely sinister.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Ooh, excellent point.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The Pfeffer is extraordinarily depressing and disturbing.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Although I am worried that it will end up making some point that I totally disagree with on a political level, as I can't tell at all what the author thinks about the HORRIBLE, STIFLING, AND EVIL gender roles on display.
I also am worried, because I also can't tell whether the author's going to uphold or subvert the awful gender stuff.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It keeps dodging bullets, though-- I keep looking at the situations and going, okay, the only way out of this is something that will make me have to stop reading this series, and then there's some other way out of it. Which leaves me hopeful, because it just keeps managing to walk a very, very thin line.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I feel like it's Utena, only all the places where Utena silently screamed "JUNG!" ASN is shouting back "FREUD!"

This is undoubtedly the most delightful sentence I've read ALL WEEK.

[oyceter]

It is so odd! I love the art so much; I think this is one I will buy.

[oyceter]

I feel like it's Utena, only all the places where Utena silently screamed "JUNG!" ASN is shouting back "FREUD!"

Best. Sentence. EVER.

[oyceter]

It is great! Although it is highly traumatic! I spent most of the weekend in a daze, and I don't think I came out of it till I hit the library sale.

Because books cure all ;).

[oyceter]

I was sort of underwhelmed by the movie, but I think that's because I saw a lot of the key shots in some VividCon vids. Also, I was expecting it to be much less action-y than it was. It'll be really interesting reading the book, especially seeing the different ending...

[oyceter]

It is great! Just terrifying!

And yeah, I spent the entire time wanting to stock up on canned soup.

[oyceter]

I can't tell with ASN! Especially because Mizushiro's gender politics in 1999nen are sketchy, and because you posted on some of her other series.

The Pfeffer is good, but it left me feeling paranoid and vulnerable and unreal for about two days, so yeah. It is very freaky!