your joy is my low

Okay, so remember how I was bitter at Del Rey for Legacy of the Force -- and everything after it (and yeah, I guess I still am lololol)? WELL THEY RECEIVED SOME POINTS ON MY SCALE. IT'S LIKE THEY OFFERED THIS BOOK AS AN APOLOGY TO EVERYONE AND IT FITS ME LIKE A GLOVE.

(Except I'm still bitter. I will never get over your treatment, Jacen Solo. CALL ME, ZOOKEEPER!!1 <3)

DEATH TROOPERS.

My reasons for love. Let me show you them.

1.) Two of my favorite things made sweet undead love and had a baby. STAR WARS and ZOMBIES.

2.) Dr. Zahara Cody is a medically-trained, smart, kickass female who isn't whiny and doesn't need to be saved multiple times -- not that I'm bashing any of the other Star Wars characters out there (like maybe DAIRY QUEEN FROM THE NJO? oh snap i'm just kidding except i'm not no okay maybe i liked her a little).

3.) Chapter 39 made me tear up like a little baby. I'm not lying. The shortness of it. The animalistic grappling and the emotion and JUST GUH. THE TONGUE AND THE TEETH AND THE FLESH. JOE SCHREIBER, YOU ARE A MONSTER AND I LOVE IT. fkasjkfjdkjfaskfjasj

4.) Jareth Sartoris is an EM-EFFING A-HOLE. HAAAAATE. WITH THE BLASTERS AND THE ESCAPE POD WITH M'BOYS. HAAAAAAATE.

5.) Stuff like this: That was when his toe struck something soft and yielding, and when he glanced down he saw it was a human leg.

Very slowly, he looked up.

The leg was connected to a torso, covered up by another, and another, the pile growing in front of him comprising what he realized was hundreds of dismembered corpses -- heads, arms, legs, and whole bodies, bare bones, many of them still dressed in rotten Imperial uniforms and incomplete stormtrooper armor. The bodies had been mangled like parts in an abattoir, some of them in handcuffs and manacles, others hacked recklessly to pieces, still others looking partially devoured, whole gobbets of flesh gnawed off.

GROSS. <3

6.) KALE LONGO. OH MY GOODNESS, THIS BOY. <3 This boy is Jacen Solo levels of hot. And he is pretty much the opposite of Jacen too. When he and his awesome little brother, Trig, hear things they can't explain (crying, something eating something else totally innocent, screaming, etc.) it's not Jacen's, "OH GAWD LET'S GO HELP THEM MY EMPATHY SENSE IS TINGLING WAIIIII EMO HURTZ" it's more, "It's none of our business. Let's go." He cares about himself and his little brother, which gets me to...

7.) Trig and Kale's relationship. IT'S SO NICE TO SEE A SET OF SIBLINGS WHO LOVE EACH OTHER AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER AND SHOW IT AND SHIT. There is a part where a man COUGHS BLOOD in Trig's face and then:

"Hey," Kale said, placing one hand on Trig's shoulder. "Come here." He lifted the hem of his shirt and and wiped his brother's face off, the first tears mixing with the guard's blood. "It's all right."

"This is bad," Trig said.

"We've been through worse."

Trig couldn't answer. He put his face against his brother's chest, and hugged him fiercely. Kale hugged him back. "Shh," he said, "'S okay."

SO DARLING. <3

8.) DID I MENTION THERE WERE EFFING ZOMBIES IN THIS BOOK? BECAUSE THERE ARE AND THEY ARE AMAZING. STORMTROOPER ZOMBIES. IMPERIAL OFFICER ZOMBIES. INMATE ZOMBIES. EATING THINGS.

9.) The scene with Kale and Dr. Cody and the scalpel. I... I will have nightmares about this for weeks. The descriptions are almost too much and they work so well and just -- GET RID OF IT, CUT IT OUT, GET IT OUT OF ME

10.) The chapter titles, oh my god. The ones that are standing out in my head right now are MEAT NEST, COFFIN JOCKEYS, LUNG WINDOWS, SKIN HILL and STOP.

(sjkfdaksfsdfjdfjdkfja dsf STOP is Chapter 39. D:)

11.) I read 120 pages of this book in one sitting. I think the last Star Wars book I did that with was Traitor.

12.) KALE LONGO TEARING SOMEONE'S FACIAL PIERCINGS OUT. BADASS. I LOVE YOU, KALE. <3 (Also, waking up from your snoring to tell Myss to shut up = <33333333333)~

13.) Waste is such an awesome 2-1B droid.

14.) The characters are really strong. They were all tied together very well and even the smallest characters actually get... well, character. Take Armitage, for example. We don't see him in the book that much at all. But we know where he's from (Faro), all about his doofy hairstyle from the others making fun of him, we know he's a painter and what he paints (what he's forced to paint and wants to paint) -- and we see him making one of the nastiest discoveries in the book. Yet he's in the book for no more than a total of five pages. Also, Austin. What a dick. But I loved him. The way he looks at Dr. Cody when Dr. Cody is talking to Gat makes him so not classy and so awesome. And on the subject of characters... DID I MENTION KALE AND TRIG LONGO????????

And the best...

15.) THE TWO PRISONERS WHO WERE IN SOLITARY THAT I SHALL NOT NAME FIGHTING DAMN ZOMBIES. YESSSSSSS. They aren't technically cameos cause they're in a good chunk of the book, but they don't broadcast that they're in the book either (their relationship with the Longo boys is SO ADORABLE too).

I'll give you a REALLY SPOILERY visual hint as to who they are: SHIT YESSSSSSSSSSSS.

BRB GOTTA GO FINISH THE BOOK.

(... I'm not debating on picking up Kale in the SW Dressing Room. D: I'm not, I'm not.)

("What's wrong?" Kale asked, a drowsy murmur that came out: Wussrong?

Trig cleared his throat. His voice had started changing recently, and he was acutely aware of how it broke high and low when he wasn't paying strict attention. "Nothing." <333333333333333)

"He just can't get enough," Pearson said tiredly.

"Huh?"

"Almost two hundred and fifty miles," Pearson groaned. "My feet are like lead with poison inside them. My back's burning. And that screwed up McVries doesn't have enough yet. He's like a starving man gobbling up laxatives."

"He wants to be hurt, do you think?"

"Jesus, what do you think? He ought to be wearing a BEAT ME HARD sign. I wonder what he's trying to make up for."



Time for my yearly re-read of The Long Walk! XD

So my pictures from fanmixing yesterday made me think...

Under this cut, I cast five Stephen King books (along with rambles and reasonings). These are dream-castings, obviously, since they will never happen and some of them can't happen (like casting River Phoenix or a younger Jensen Ackles). Also, The Dark Half already has a movie, yes, but I had a wacked-out dream about this casting and it flipped me out and I would kill to see it. It would be THE BEST THING EVER.

LOL, what the shit is this casting Zac Efron twice? Of all people, Zac Efron? XD And if I ended up casting Duma Key as well then I would've casted the whole Winchester family! Hehe~ I can't for the life of me think of anyone for Wireman though. IDEAS, ANYONE?

YAY FOR SEXCELLENT PEOPLE UNDER THE CUT. :O

( Lisey's Story, Bag of Bones, The Long Walk, The Dark Half & Cell )

I think that was bad cause now I want to go reread this hot, hot stuff all over again. Along with Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Needful Things... *continues to ramble off books*


<3333333333333333333333333333 WHAT.

So I'm switching between Needful Things by Stephen King and then his new short story collection Just After Sunset -- I'm absolutely loving both.

"Willa", the first story in JPS, turned me into a mushy little puddle of goo cause it was so gorgeous. It's funny, cause I read that and it was sweet and genuine and adorable and just dude (King admitted he was a romantic -- with "Willa", Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story, I see it and love it)...

Then I turn to Needful Things (which I will admit, was kind of slow for me at first) and two women have just stormed out of their houses, pissed off and in some sort of daze, met on a street corner and hacked each other to death -- one with a cleaver and the other with a knife. The Sheriff, Mister Alan Pangborn (NEEDFUL THINGS AND DARK HALF, REPRESENT), shows up and knows there's something else going on besides just, "LOL that bitch imma kill her" and suddenly I can't put this book down. LELAND GAUNT, YOU CARD.

(Leland would totally have green eyes when I went to see him. And he would probably sell me a first edition of "The Long Walk" or something -- then he would have me pull a prank and I would get killed in no time flat. SORRY, LELAND.)

KING, WHY ARE YOU SO AWESOME?


LOL: "It occurred to me that in the eighties, everything had come with a price tag, that the decade quite literally was the sale of the century. The final items up on the block had been honor, integrity, self-respect, and innocence... I decided to turn the eighties into a small-town curio shop called Needful Things and see what happened."

HEY see_aphy_be. WORD.


In other news, UHM, BATTLE ROYALE NOVEL MUCH? I love how Stephen King is the reviewer and he's like, "BATTLE ROYALE, THE RUNNING MAN, THE LONG WALK, WHAT?" Then I spazzed cause he mentioned the Long Walk and I name-dropped Peter McVries, NATURALLY.

Shit, I would've name-dropped Peter McVries no matter who the reviewer was or who brought up The Long Walk.

And I LOLed at the comment where the person is like, "KING HAS WRITTEN LOTS OF YOUNG ADULT NOVELS LIKE IT AND CARRIE~" Did this person even read those books? Those are not young adult novels.

Also, teehehe Michael Phelps at Disney World! :D

Hahaha! In a discussion concerning the movie Step Brothers on the IMDB message board:

Person #1: Wow, that really makes me want to see this movie (sarcasm). Why does Will Ferrell think his being naked is funny? No one wants to see naked men; even women don't. You want evidence? Why do 99% of exotic clubs feature female dancers?

Person #2: Because only men will pay for nudity and sex.

HAHAHAHA, ZING. Also found on IMDB -- I watched part of the Twilight fandom explode on IMDB yesterday during my lunch break, in a bad, bad way after spoilers for their new book were floating around. I should do a study on fandoms. It was like watching a star collapse or a train wreck or something equally as insane. I saw diehard fans of the books fully renounce their fandom and complain about how the series is ruined (Loch Ness Monster, lulz).

Most of the posts looked like this -- and this is an actual example:

*cries*
It all sounds like something created by a hater or fanfiction
but it also sounds so like stephenie.

Is that supposed to be a compliment or a bash? :( I've seen a billion icons around LJ about how the last book is just one BIG FAIL, so this could take my study even further. I could include the reactions to the last Legacy of the Force (hell, NJO for that matter too -- loose ends much?) book and the last Harry Potter book for my study too. Of course, this is looking to be the most violent reaction I've seen.

AND HEY. JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS WINS. Love it. XD

Have I mentioned how much I love Terry (Nick Swardson) from Reno 911!: "I'm recording an album... it's called Terry: South Bitch: Live. Fuck you, Dad. And it drops in, uh 2009."

Terry: "I'm on wheels, yo!"
Raineesha: "Thats not the only thing you're on. What else are you on, Terry?"
Terry: "I'm on fucking crack, yo!"

Trudy: "Terry, when you're here, you're an ambassador for Reno."
Terry: "Heavy on the assador!"

Raineesha: "We got a call about lewd behavior on the boardwalk and you the only thing I see around here that could qualify as lewd."
Terry: "How is this... I'm not lewd at all... I don't even know what... lube or lewd?"

And those are only from the movie... if I started quoting Terry from the show... XDDDD Aaaaaaaand I totally didn't pick up Jim Dangle in Revelry Junction. Not at all. :|

Also, one of the best and most simple things in the world is sleeping in. HEART.

If there's one thing that can get my mind off of anything and everything, it's a good book.

And this is me professing my love to Stephen King's brain again. I finished Duma Key at 5 this morning. All I can bring myself to say is Wow. Actually, make that WOW.

(When Edgar when back to Big Pink alone right near the end and found who what he expected, duuuuuude. ;-;)

You know The Long Walk is my favorite King book ever -- but Duma Key, Lisey's Story and Bag of Bones are all trying to claw it out of the top spot. D: These three books are holycrapsomuchawesome and I love his books that are like this. The ones where there's no actual super-serious immediate visual threat (such as dog/dead pet/car/crazy ass possessed husband/clown/randall flagg/guns/alter-ego killing machine/etc., not that I don't love those, but you know what I mean) -- any immediate visual threat (such as John Dooley/"Zack McCool" or Max Devore) are by far nowhere near the worst thing that the main protagonist (Edgar Freemantle/Lisey Landon/Mike Noonan) has to face (although I would argue for Lisey and the... can opener).

The protagonists are effing incredible, but it's also the life he puts in the main supporters -- like Jerome Wireman, Scott Landon and Mattie Devore -- that absolutely kill me. Jerome and the gun and the fruit -- plus Jesus-Krispies ("Wireman, did you just say Jesus-Krispies?" -- "Don't change the subject.") -- Scott and his bools, his bloody hand, his new underwear promise and Boo'ya Moon. Mattie and little Kyra, and how damn optimistic she could be even after all the shit Max (and that hole of a town) put her through. sdjfjadkfjaskfjdsdaf MY GOODNESS.

Not to mention Elizabeth Eastlake (her family), Perse (*shudder*), Ilse (._. <333333), Jack Cantori ("Jack Cantori ripped the seat of his pants. Now shut up a minute."), Amanda Debusher (Southwind), Paul Landon (oh my gawd the GROWLING), Jo (what was in her purse D:), Sara Tidwell (her fate) -- I could go on and on forever about this TRIPTYCH OF AMAZING.

But the bottom line is this. If you've read two of them, finish out the three. If you've only read one, pick up the others. If you haven't read any, go for it. They're heartwrenching and haunting and absolutely gorgeous.

("I like you, Edgar. You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass."

"Beautiful. I may cry. Listen, Wireman..." <3)



And oh my crap yo -- SK: "I think that both The Mist and 1408 from last year are really good movies and both are based on shorter works. When you get a long book it’s kinda like trying to stuff everything into a suitcase and that can be very difficult. Duma Key has been optioned for movies and it may actually become a movie but I was surprised that it happened because it’s a story that has so much plot in it, it would really have to be simplified. Lisey’s Story on the other hand would make a great TV miniseries if it was done in the right way." I would absolutely die of happy.

LOL, who the hell keyworded Gormenghast as Steampunk on IMDB? And this is the best post on the message board for that movie, "Can you honestly blame Steerpike for wanting to kill these people?" ROFL SO TRUE. Steerpike is ten kinds of awesome, in the novel and the miniseries. And he is morally gray like so many of my other favorite characters. XD

I also love Simon Cowell. Really. This is what he thinks about his relationship with Ryan Seacrest: "You know when you go around to your aunty's and the little chihuahua gets on your leg because they think it's something else? That's my relationship with Ryan. It's like: Off!" MUAHAHAHAHA <3

I STILL HAVEN'T BOUGHT REVELATION YET. :O I have been feeling crappy and haven't really made it out anywhere besides work and back. Although, I'm looking at it this way -- the longer it takes me to read Revelation, the shorter I have to wait for Invincible.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA GLITTERSTIM SUNRISE - KYP AND LUKE. <3

Luke: Kyp, I think I remembered a mission I wanted to send you on...
Kyp: Is it Mission: Crash Royal Birthday Party?
Luke: ... What does the Force tell you?

NICE.

OH MY FRICK, YOU CAN'T MAKE A MOVIE OF COIN LOCKER BABIES AND NOT HAVE IT SET IN JAPAN. HOLY CRAP. ALSO, YOU NEED TO USE YOUNGER ACTORS. AND NOT SEAN LENNON. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NOT SEAN LENNON. WHAT THE SHIT. GET EFFING GACKT AND HYDE IF YOU HAVE TO.

You cannot ruin one of my favorite books like this, dudes. D:

I need to read this book again.

Coin Locker Babies is a brilliantly inspired coming-of-age tale set in this increasingly amorphous, dark underbelly of modern Japan. Hashi and Kiku, both abandoned at birth by their mother in the coin lockers of a Tokyo train station, are rescued and sent to an orphanage where they are the subjects of an experiment that exposes them to subliminal sound and film. Eventually adopted by a family on a remote Japanese island, the boys are both guided and haunted by those subversive hypnotic impressions--the constant rhythm of a woman's heart beating accompanied by images of animals running across an opening range--as they grow up exploring the lush natural environment of their new home.

Models of rejection and alienation, Hashi and Kiku develop separate ways of coping with their condition. While working as a prostitute in Toxitown, Hashi's otherworldly voice is discovered by an unscrupulous pimp (Mr. D), and he becomes an overnight pop-star sensation. His singing actually induces the audience into a deep trance where the emotions, images, and sensations of their lives play out in languid stream-of-consciousness sequences. Hashi believes he can heal the world with his vocal cords and campy stage productions, which fall somewhere between Ziggy Stardust and Liberace.

Kiku becomes a championship pole vaulter. Outwardly, he's the strong and silent type, but beneath the surface rages the angst of a man hell-bent on destroying Tokyo as revenge for his abandonment. His quest for Datura, a poison eerily echoing the Sarin used in the Tokyo subway gassings, leads him on several adventures, finally to a mysterious government test site in a cave beneath the ocean.

I need to read this book again like mad.


HAHAHAHAHHAHA - This review on amazon:

What do you call a book about abandoned babies in coin lockers, a homicidal pole vaulter, a gay, straight, then gay again Jrocker, a drug called Datura, a filipino gun maker with missing teeth, a model who keeps a crocodile as a pet, discriptive images of blood, images of sex with men and women and prostitutes all around, a "sea" voyage, matricide, murder, weird out psycho antics, and an "end" to end it all? Well, if you guessed Coin Locker Babies then you're cool.


This book is by the same guy who wrote the book, Audition -- which I know some of you have seen the movie. XD That should tell you what the book is like, and in turn what Ryu Murakami's style is like. Heeehehe~ I've read a few books by him, but Coin Locker Babies is easily my favorite.

I finished the book in the car in the parking lot today on my lunch break. Dude.

FJKHDhajkhsdjfhasjdfh j hajsdfh THIS BOOK.

Here is my spoiler-free gush of Stephen King's Lisey's Story! Just for you! And you all know how much I love spoilers for everything, so that is how bad I want anyone and everyone to pick this book up -- I'm keeping spoilers away! NO WAI!!111 XD

First off, here is your spoiler-free summary that is more professional than my gushing (maybe cause it's a publisher's summary, hurrr)! Just so you know what the book is actually about. ;D

Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey knew there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.

Book = Wow. I don't really know what else to say. D:

All the shit that Scott Landon went through and all the ways he shared it with Lisey and the actual Lisey's Story, I can't even fangasm enough. They way everything fit together and meshed was great. I also love all the little tidbits here and there on the words they use to/for each other and the little idioms Scott and Lisey had (SOWISA, Scott's hair, "Reality is Ralph!", the "african" blanket, bool!, etc.) -- at first you're like, "What the shit...?" And I know a lot of people couldn't get over all the things like that thrown in because they must not know how to immerse themselves in a book. :P I love the fact that Scott got Lisey saying "smuck/smucking/smuck this" in place of "fuck/fucking/fuck this" -- I find myself using "smuck" now.

Also, the way Lisey calls back to all these moments in their lives. Germany where "anything and everything that could go wrong went wrong", Nashville where Deep Space Cowboy GAC pulled a gun on Scott (not a spoiler! XD), the childhood recollections from Pennsylvania, and I don't even want to get into Kentucky. ;-; Then the trips to Boo'ya Moon. Holy crap. Gorgeous. Don't even get me started on the insanity that is the Debusher sisters either. Lisey, Amanda, Darla and Cantata (and even Jodi XD) are like the epitome of sister. It is perfect. XD

And this wouldn't be Stephen King without blood and the crazy, yes? Yes! (Which is why we love! <333) Let's just say there is Lisey, a fucker smucker "named" "Zack McCool" and a can opener. I could totally feel her pain just by reading about it. kdfjl;asklfjdaksjdf It still makes me hurt. And it fits in with the story, yessssss. Pain. D:

Of course, it also wouldn't be Stephen King without all the crazy, raw human emotion -- much like that found in The Body (which later was adapted to become Stand By Me. LEECHES!) and The Long Walk, which is another reason I'm in love with this book. It's about love, loss and the beauty of the human imagination. Stephen King's version of a love story. And GOOD LORD what a story it is. LOOOOOOOOVE.

(OMG and when you get to that flashback, the one you know is coming throughout the whole book and you're dreading it and dreading it but you still want to know how it happened... damn. I felt like stupid Whiny Amber from Big Brother cause I was bawling, yo. I was reading the book in bed laying down, and there was like a puddle of tears pooling at my collarbone. D: I WAS ALL WIBBLY. And then of course, the next day I go to work with huge ["Puffickly huh-yooge" -- as Scott Landon would say] puffy eyes and all the while I'm thinking, "MOOOOORE. I WANT TO READ MOOOOOOOOORE. GIVE ME THE BOOOOOOOOOK~")

So yeah, when I get back from D*C, expect a fanmix for this book -- as well as the one for The Long Walk. The songs are all finished for both, I just need all my quotes from Lisey's Story. And to finish all the covers. The Long Walk cover only needs 19 more boys! 19! I have 81 on there and it's taking fucking smucking FOREVER. BUT... LOVE. XD

SCOTT + LISEY = OTP, AMIRITE. They are the definition, yo. And again, husband like Scott, plz.

P.S. I am totally getting married on November 19th. And since the first Saturday that is November 19th is in 2011, that will be my wedding day. OKAY. SET. (I totally feel like Elliot from Scrubs with all her wedding plans a billion years before she needs them. XD)

P.S.S. The reason Scott and Lisey wouldn't have kids made me cry like a bitch. D:

OKAY SERIOUSLY I'M SPENT. I HIGHLY RECCCCCOOOOMMMMMEND THIS BOOOOOK LIEK WOOT. Yo.

(P.S.S.S. Everything the same. I love you. OMG ;-;!)