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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2017-06-21 08:34 pm

Reading, Listening, Watching

Reading: Still Crime and Punishment which should be no surprise. However I had anticipated being further in than Chapter 5 by this point.

Listening: Stuff you Missed in History Class on William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman. So far he's invented a lie detector and is investigating women's emotional responses to bondage - suddenly Wonder Woman's lasso takes on a whole new dimension. He appears to have been both a feminist of sorts* and a polygamist. The former of which is, I gather, very evident in the early Wonder Woman comics (particularly his belief that the world would be a better place if run by women) the latter somewhat less so.

Watching: We have discovered Stanger Things. Very reminiscent of E.T. (it opens with a D&D game, is set in the 1980s and much of it is short from a child height viewpoint (a characteristic of E.T. according to B.))

*neither of his partners got suitable credit for their, in some cases considerable, input into his work.
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[personal profile] liadt 2017-06-22 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Big novels can have that go slow effect! The podcast sounds interesting even though I'm not a comic character expert.
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[personal profile] liadt 2017-06-28 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I was strictly Beano and Dandy as a child:)