My Faves for Monday, December 17, 2007

Oh hell yeah. The Dark Knight.

The preview trailer for “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” looks great. Please oh please my don’t do a poor job with my beloved Dr. Seuss!

Quoted: A new CG animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of the “Ice Age” films, based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Seuss books are among the defining works of family literature, have sold over 200 million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages. The “Horton” series (“Horton Hears a Who,” “Horton Hatches the Egg”) are consistently among the top-selling of all Seuss titles — generation after generation. HORTON HEARS A WHO is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.

This post, salaciously titled “The World’s Most Dangerous Bookstore,” is a recollection of a visit to a book shop stuffed floor to ceiling with books, complete with one odd owner.

Quoted: Enduring legends are borne of disbelief: Scotland has its Loch Ness Monster, the Himalays its Abominable Snowman, and Oklahoma City, not to be outdone, has the Bookman. Joe had first heard about the Bookman from a college philosophy professor who doted on spinning myths concerning the biblio-obsessed hermit to his students.

A fair representation of the Amazon Kindle entry into the wireless reader space…

Quoted: Opinion: Despite criticism of the company’s wireless device, it’s better than anything out there today.

Quoted: Random House imprint Vintage is redesigning the paperback versions of Thomas Pynchon’s novels [...] -Design Week.