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Re: The Land of Stories Main Thread
ChrisColferFan1 7/11/2012, 6:54 am
I also like his voice of Goldilocks.Delight wrote:^ I actually succumbed to temptation and listened to the audiobook snippet, with the book release date being less than a week away (what is wrong with me ???)
I like his voice of Goldilocks.
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tanita_mors 7/11/2012, 12:37 pm
Well, I'm resisting the temptation. Is it the same snippet as before ? I heard only a line or two of that one before I turned it off. Don't wanna be spoiled to much, especially if I can't find the audio book online fast enough.
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Kurt Hummel 7/11/2012, 6:46 pm
FanofChrisC&MaxA1 wrote:I also like his voice of Goldilocks.Delight wrote:^ I actually succumbed to temptation and listened to the audiobook snippet, with the book release date being less than a week away (what is wrong with me ???
I like his voice of Goldilocks.
I love his Goldilocks voice too.
I didn't want to listen to it either but I couldn't resist. 
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Ireth 7/13/2012, 5:43 am
Kurtsie4ever wrote:FanofChrisC&MaxA1 wrote:I also like his voice of Goldilocks.Delight wrote:^ I actually succumbed to temptation and listened to the audiobook snippet, with the book release date being less than a week away (what is wrong with me ???
I like his voice of Goldilocks.
I love his Goldilocks voice too.
Me too
. I also love his Red Riding Hood voice. I can't wait to hear the other characters now...
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Delight 7/13/2012, 8:41 am
tanita_mors wrote:Well, I'm resisting the temptation. Is it the same snippet as before ? I heard only a line or two of that one before I turned it off. Don't wanna be spoiled to much, especially if I can't find the audio book online fast enough.
From what I could gather, it's a different one, depicting a different scene entirely.
In this new snippet, we get to hear Chris doing non-Alex Bailey female voices!
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Emile 7/13/2012, 1:36 pm
A review (with a lot of spoilers) of the book from The New York Times:
Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel in the high school musical “Glee,” has written a novel that bears an unmistakable televisual stamp. In confecting this fairy-tale homage, which he began working on when he was in grade school, Colfer has written dialogue according to sitcom laws of quippery and built his narrative with an actorly sense of character motivation. Still, a kind of stern traditionalism undergirds the story. When it comes to imagining the continuing lives of our storybook legends, the author seems to side with the sixth-grade teacher of his main characters — twins lost, literally, in a good book — who denounces the Disneyfication of the classics: “Fairy-tale ‘adaptations’ are usually stripped of every moral and lesson the stories were originally intended to teach, and replaced with singing and dancing forest animals.”
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‘The Land of Stories,’ by Chris Colfer
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‘The Land of Stories,’ by Chris Colfer
Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel in the high school musical “Glee,” has written a novel that bears an unmistakable televisual stamp. In confecting this fairy-tale homage, which he began working on when he was in grade school, Colfer has written dialogue according to sitcom laws of quippery and built his narrative with an actorly sense of character motivation. Still, a kind of stern traditionalism undergirds the story. When it comes to imagining the continuing lives of our storybook legends, the author seems to side with the sixth-grade teacher of his main characters — twins lost, literally, in a good book — who denounces the Disneyfication of the classics: “Fairy-tale ‘adaptations’ are usually stripped of every moral and lesson the stories were originally intended to teach, and replaced with singing and dancing forest animals.”
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- Colfer’s Snow White has no time for bluebirds. In the prologue, she sets a pop-Gothic tone by paying a visit to her dungeon-bound stepmother, who hints at a sympathetic back story. “What the world fails to realize,” the evil queen says, “is that a villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.” When she finally explains the roots of her evil, it’s after she’s escaped her cell, just before a climactic castle-storming battle, and the payoff is as handsome as a prince. Shrewdly, Colfer leaves her behind-the-scenes tear-jerker hanging from a cliff for nearly 400 pages while our two heroes dangle from Rapunzel’s tower, fling themselves from tall trees into enchanted kingdoms and reach other heights of metamythical action during their visit to the Land of Stories.
Once upon a time, in contemporary Anytown, lived Alex Bailey and her brother, Conner. The two are passably lively variations on familiar types: she’s an energetic egghead sitting at the head of the class; he’s a jokester snoozing in the back row. Their adventure begins a year after their father’s death, and Colfer brings a light touch to describing their grief even while laying it on thick with thematic resonance. (Mr. Bailey died driving home from his bookstore.) Their paternal grandmother, twinkling into view on their 12th birthday, bequeaths to them a family heirloom, an old storybook anthology whose cover turns out to be a dimensional gateway in the tradition of C. S. Lewis’s passage to Narnia.
Stumbling through this bookwormhole, the kids plummet into a world where Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White have each married a son of King Charming; where Goldilocks is a glamorous fugitive mounted on a cream-colored steed named Porridge; and where Red Riding Hood, in a room pulled together by a wolfskin rug, overdresses to impress Jack, of beanstalk fame. Colfer, perhaps grown tired of treating his characters with gentle reverence, imagines the red-caped lass as a camped-up tart, vain — and pining in vain for the giant-killer: “She was showing too much skin, wearing too much makeup, and was dressed too well for the middle of the day.”
This is no place for young children, what with its gibbering goblins and echoing wolf howls. Relying on the kindness of strangers, foremost an amphibious gentleman plainly in need of a smooch, the twins seek out relics, including Sleeping Beauty’s spindle and Cinderella’s slipper, in order to activate a “Wishing Spell” and make their escape. Off they go on a quest that combines a scavenger hunt, a breaking-and-entering spree and a tour of the stars’ homes.
“The Land of Stories” may appeal to a somewhat narrow demographic. A child who is prepared to catch Alex’s meaning when she exclaims, early on, that “ ‘Cinderella’ is . . . about karma!,” is perhaps also prepared to cock an eyebrow at such an arguable statement of didactic intent. (In fact, such a child has perhaps already talked you into letting her see Kristen Stewart play a PG-13 Snow White at the summer multiplex.) But I suspect that when this bit of genial revisionism hits a reader in the Goldilocks sweet spot of just-rightness, it will hit big with its combination of earnestness and playful poise. Heigh-ho, Porridge, away.
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Re: The Land of Stories Main Thread
BlueJazz 7/13/2012, 5:03 pm
An official TLOS website has been created 
Link: TLOS
Please note that there're minor spoilers in the main page.
Link: TLOS
Please note that there're minor spoilers in the main page.
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ladydianab 7/13/2012, 5:39 pm
I saw that website last week and there was only the book information on it. I just signed up for the chat next Wednesday. I used my facebook login to sign up and I think I may have invited all my friends! oops! I hope not. Oh well.
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Re: The Land of Stories Main Thread
Buenos 7/13/2012, 7:33 pm
A review (with a lot of spoilers) of the book from The New York Times:
All in all not a bad review. It actually makes me want to read the book more now. Especially with the spoilers about Chris's spin on some of the fairy tale characters' treatment.
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ColferInspired 7/13/2012, 10:37 pm
Wow, Chris is busy. 
And even a live chat.
Pity I can't join in. But I'm sure someone will have the live stream and the questions and answers.
I'm starting to not worry about Glee anymore, Chris's stuff is more interesting.
And even a live chat.
Pity I can't join in. But I'm sure someone will have the live stream and the questions and answers.
I'm starting to not worry about Glee anymore, Chris's stuff is more interesting.
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fantastica 7/14/2012, 12:45 am
TLOS will be NYT Editor's choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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fantastica 7/14/2012, 12:53 am
An intimate portrait of Brian the Cat:
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ColferInspired 7/14/2012, 1:18 am
fantastica wrote:An intimate portrait of Brian the Cat:
Oh wow, that is cute, amazing, incredibly talented artist, and clever at the same time.
I hope whoever did this tweets it to Chris, I'm sure he would love it.
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Delight 7/14/2012, 1:58 am
Emile wrote:A review (with a lot of spoilers) of the book from The New York Times:
I've been trying to stay from spoilers, so I won' read this review until I've read the book. It's nice to hear that the review is kinda positive though
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ChrisColferFan1 7/14/2012, 2:24 am
fantastica wrote:An intimate portrait of Brian the Cat:
Great drawing.
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ColferGirl 7/14/2012, 3:24 am
fantastica wrote:An intimate portrait of Brian the Cat:
Adding to the love for this fanart! It's so wonderful, and incredibly drawn.
I might make it my computer wallpaper.As for Chris, I'm so excited about all these interviews that we're getting and are yet to get! It's a great time to be a Chris fan, for sure. I always love it when each interview sheds even a little bit more light on Chris as a person. And the promise of a second book sometime this year has me so eager and intrigued to know more. I'm so glad that the New York Times seems to feel favorably toward TLOS.
Only three days away until it's out officially!
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valkeakuulas 7/14/2012, 4:09 am
fantastica wrote:TLOS will be NYT Editor's choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What does that mean? Does it get some sort of sticker at the cover "Recommended by NYT" or just bigger spot on the papers stories?
@Delight: Review is QUITE spoilery so better to be avoided if spoilers ruin the experience for you.
I thought the review was good, although not at all review-ery. It was written by their TV critic?
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BlueJazz 7/14/2012, 6:12 pm
^ A fan on tumblr wrote that being NYT editor's choice means that a tagline that will be attached to the book from now on, it's pretty huge. But since NYT is the biggest mainstream press for books, anything good from them is GOOD
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Buenos 7/14/2012, 7:17 pm
being NYT editor's choice means that a tagline that will be attached to the book from now on, it's pretty huge. But since NYT is the biggest mainstream press for books, anything good from them is GOOD
Why do I have the feeling that the movie rights are being negotiated by somebody as we speak...
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Emile 7/15/2012, 7:00 am
From the Sunday New York Times magazine #ChrisColfer #TLOS
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valkeakuulas 7/15/2012, 12:18 pm
Emile wrote:
From the Sunday New York Times magazine #ChrisColfer #TLOS
I know this should probably belong to the appriciation thread but I imagine him being very annoying and too wise for his own good as a ten year old. "I was nuts." a babysitters nightmare with all the intellectual comebacks and whys.
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fantastica 7/15/2012, 2:42 pm
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