Book meme

[sabotabby]

"To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?"

My responses:

Currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch and Sashenka by Simon Montefiore.

Most recently finished reading The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman.

Next up: The Dark Side of the Earth by Alfred Bester. (No, not that one.)

On hold: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.

Should you generally be interested in my reading material, I log everything because I'm a nerd that way.

In other news, I miss wouldprefernot2's "What are you reading?" posts. And. Well. I miss wouldprefernot2 in general.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I remember Michael Boatman talking on a panel of race and horror literature (or something like that) and besides the irony of the fact that he and John Edward Larson were the only black people at the entire convention (although there were less than 100 people there - but still) and how the general prevailing belief was that white writers should be very careful when writing from a non-white character's perspective.

His perspective is that people can be too careful and as an actor, he gets offered a LOT of roles which basically come down to Black Judge with Three Lines.

So that's bad too. (a side note - he was so pissed off at a Joe Lansdale story that was basically "black people get chased down and killed by white rednecks" that he wrote Bloodbath at Landsdale Towers which is the first story I read by him - the white people don't fare very well in it - in fact, some reviewers called the story overtly preachy which is weird. I thought it was hilarious.)

I was thinking about thsi when watching Django Unchained. Particularly Samuel Jackson's Uncle Tom character who is a different person depending on who is around him. It was cool writing that managed to use those cliches and comment on them at the same time.