must...bookblog...must...ARGGGGGG.
Aug. 19th, 2006 12:55 amWriting these up was no fun at all. But if not now, then when? NO DAY BUT TODAY.
I'm posting the two longest ones first, since they are somewhat related to each other.
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
A fifteen-year-old boy runs away from home, and a man with a mysterious mental handicap can talk to cats. Eventually, their lives intersect. I liked this one better than Hard-boiled Wonderland.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tarigwaemir said something about the writing (or translation) having more punch, but I didn't think so. It took me a long time to get used to so many stock phrases. They weren't bad, but they were distracting. ( Read more... )
Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
Janette goes away to college, where she gets along really well with one roomate (Molly) and learns to tolerate another (Tina). Additionally, there are all these beautiful, mysterious, somewhat unnerving students hanging around, many of them Classics majors. Jannette is involved with three (Nick, Thomas, and Robin). The book is a retelling of the Scottish ballad Tam Lin, in which the brave and headstrong Janet saves her otherworldly lover from the clutches of the Fairy Queen. ( Read more... )
Bookblogging would be easier if I didn't feel the need to WRITE SO MUCH. -_-;; Here, have a super short movie review:
Snakes on a Plane
SURPRISINGLY GOOD. Well, not the scenes they added to up the sex/violence/ridiculousness. But the underlying movie, the one that makes no sense but is ernest anyway? That movie's pretty good. When the passengers all rally together to fight off those pheromone-crazed exotic snakes on that airplane, you really root for them. Even the dumb motocross kid.
I'm posting the two longest ones first, since they are somewhat related to each other.
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
A fifteen-year-old boy runs away from home, and a man with a mysterious mental handicap can talk to cats. Eventually, their lives intersect. I liked this one better than Hard-boiled Wonderland.
tarigwaemir said something about the writing (or translation) having more punch, but I didn't think so. It took me a long time to get used to so many stock phrases. They weren't bad, but they were distracting. ( Read more... ) Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
Janette goes away to college, where she gets along really well with one roomate (Molly) and learns to tolerate another (Tina). Additionally, there are all these beautiful, mysterious, somewhat unnerving students hanging around, many of them Classics majors. Jannette is involved with three (Nick, Thomas, and Robin). The book is a retelling of the Scottish ballad Tam Lin, in which the brave and headstrong Janet saves her otherworldly lover from the clutches of the Fairy Queen. ( Read more... )
Bookblogging would be easier if I didn't feel the need to WRITE SO MUCH. -_-;; Here, have a super short movie review:
Snakes on a Plane
SURPRISINGLY GOOD. Well, not the scenes they added to up the sex/violence/ridiculousness. But the underlying movie, the one that makes no sense but is ernest anyway? That movie's pretty good. When the passengers all rally together to fight off those pheromone-crazed exotic snakes on that airplane, you really root for them. Even the dumb motocross kid.