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Pumpkin56 wrote:Forgive me if I'm showing my ignorance, but American history always bored me to tears--wasn't Theodore Roosevelt a big game hunter? Perhaps he could be a werewolf hunter...

Yes, he was. And he went on a bear hunt in Mississippi (my home state), but the only bear he found to hunt was old and hurt, so he wouldn't shoot it. That's why the toy makers invented the "Teddy Bear" and named it after him.

American history is fascinating, Pumpkin. You need to give it another try. I'd recommend some of the good narrative histories aimed at the general public, like McCullough's John Adams or Ambrose's Undaunted Courage (about the Lewis & Clark expedition). Both books read like novels. I read a really good book about Lincoln a few years ago called Redeemer President, can't remember who wrote that one. But it was an intellectual biography, focusing on Lincoln's education and social milieu, and I learned enormously, not only about him, but about what the American frontier was like in his youth.

As for graphic novels and their influence on movies--I think film makers like them because they are already "story boarded," so to speak. You know, the way movies have to be imagined scene by scene before they can be filmed. Also, of course, there seem to be quite a few imaginative and even thought-provoking graphic novels nowadays, although I myself have never gotten into that genre.

I'm still looking forward to seeing it when it comes out on disk.

I'm looking forward to The Cabin in the Woods. It's coming sooooon!!!

Rising Dead Man wrote:I'm looking forward to The Cabin in the Woods. It's coming sooooon!!!

That's where Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter lived, right?

NeverMore wrote:

Rising Dead Man wrote:I'm looking forward to The Cabin in the Woods. It's coming sooooon!!!

That's where Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter lived, right?

In a log one yes. I wonder how that turned him into a badass?

And going in a smelly outhouse and a smelly chamber pot.

I'm waiting for the next book. Truman Capote: Zombie Slayer!

Truman Capote was quite a character. Oddly, though you'd never believe it of him, I read that he did actually beat a guy up once, outside a restaurant, when he was young.

I didn't know until a few months ago that he was a neighbor of Harper Lee's, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. He was the model for the little boy in that novel that Scout hangs out with, not her brother, of course, but the other little boy.

I believe it was Philip Seymour Hoffman who won the Oscar for portraying Capote in the movie about him a few years ago. I didn't see the movie, but I saw scenes of it and was stunned by how well Hoffman had captured that eccentric character.

Murfreesboro wrote:Truman Capote was quite a character. Oddly, though you'd never believe it of him, I read that he did actually beat a guy up once, outside a restaurant, when he was young.

I didn't know until a few months ago that he was a neighbor of Harper Lee's, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. He was the model for the little boy in that novel that Scout hangs out with, not her brother, of course, but the other little boy.

I believe it was Philip Seymour Hoffman who won the Oscar for portraying Capote in the movie about him a few years ago. I didn't see the movie, but I saw scenes of it and was stunned by how well Hoffman had captured that eccentric character.

DILL!!! I love To Kill A Mockingbird

I think Catherine Keener played Harper Lee in that movie that you're referring to.