I just finished Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr by Garth Nix and wanted to repost my review here:
I have 2 issues with these books. Part of my problem with these books is that both Mogget and the Disreputable Dog are basically deus ex machina. God like characters that explain nothing, know everything and fix all problems and because of that all agency is taken away from the main characters. YA books should be about giving agency to teens and Garth Nix just refuses to do that.
Great Wrap up of the lonleygirl story. I only kept watching a little after Bree died.
Wow.. this trailer makes me think I would have liked Buffy lot if it was always a cartoon. Cartoons can do absurd campyness a lot better then live action can.
Bruce Sterling gave a great talk to the Long Now Foundation (back in 2000) on how to make their 10,000 year clock stand the test of time culturally. Some of my favorite ideas are making the clock radioactive and deadly or making it unreachable in the Marianas trench.