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asato_muraki) wrote2009-08-31 05:53 pm
asato_muraki) wrote2009-08-31 05:53 pm
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Never judge a book by its movie.
Things are hoppin' at GeekaChicas again! For starters, I've just got Alpha Lyra's take on The Time Traveler's Wife. Book and movie both, sort of mashed together.
I'm of two minds about going to see it, myself. On the one hand, the book put me to sleep repeatedly. I gave it an honest effort (and I admit it was well-written - can't fault the style at all), but it just wasn't for me. The dude was boring, even naked and traveling through time, and the chick was so painfully dull I wanted to bitch slap her from the beginning. Maybe I just didn't stick with it to that magical place when I would start to care what happened to them. Which it really should have done by 50 or so pages in, if it was going to, IMHO.
On the other hand, Eric Bana. Eric Bana, naked, love-sick and hurtling through time? This must give us pause. Also, I see that Ron Livingston has a part in it, too. Hmm. I might have to give the book another go, because visualizing Eric Bana might help stave off the nap attacks.
(I know -- I'm one of those weirdos who can read Victorian novels with great relish, but gets horribly frustrated with passive characters in modern novels and the modern literary tradition of writing pretty words for their own sake. But I'm a grown up now, and no one is forcing me to read anything, ever again.)
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Went on an early walk with the hubby this morning, which was lovely. Am nearly to the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in the read-aloud project with the boys. They are really digging it, too. It was a lot of fun to hear them talk about the first Harry Potter movie. "Oh, they left out..." and "Why'd they cut x or y?" It was like hearing a dramatization of the forums at the time. *g*
See, my big boy was too young to get into the Harry potter books when they started, and by the time he was old enough, he'd seen a couple of the movies and my copies of the books had been moved to storage. He wasn't all that impressed.
But now that they are actually hearing the books read aloud (this is my plot to spend time with them and re-read the books myself) they've been bitten by the bug.
"Never judge a book by its movie," quoth Wee Boy.
I'm of two minds about going to see it, myself. On the one hand, the book put me to sleep repeatedly. I gave it an honest effort (and I admit it was well-written - can't fault the style at all), but it just wasn't for me. The dude was boring, even naked and traveling through time, and the chick was so painfully dull I wanted to bitch slap her from the beginning. Maybe I just didn't stick with it to that magical place when I would start to care what happened to them. Which it really should have done by 50 or so pages in, if it was going to, IMHO.
On the other hand, Eric Bana. Eric Bana, naked, love-sick and hurtling through time? This must give us pause. Also, I see that Ron Livingston has a part in it, too. Hmm. I might have to give the book another go, because visualizing Eric Bana might help stave off the nap attacks.
(I know -- I'm one of those weirdos who can read Victorian novels with great relish, but gets horribly frustrated with passive characters in modern novels and the modern literary tradition of writing pretty words for their own sake. But I'm a grown up now, and no one is forcing me to read anything, ever again.)
***
Went on an early walk with the hubby this morning, which was lovely. Am nearly to the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in the read-aloud project with the boys. They are really digging it, too. It was a lot of fun to hear them talk about the first Harry Potter movie. "Oh, they left out..." and "Why'd they cut x or y?" It was like hearing a dramatization of the forums at the time. *g*
See, my big boy was too young to get into the Harry potter books when they started, and by the time he was old enough, he'd seen a couple of the movies and my copies of the books had been moved to storage. He wasn't all that impressed.
But now that they are actually hearing the books read aloud (this is my plot to spend time with them and re-read the books myself) they've been bitten by the bug.
"Never judge a book by its movie," quoth Wee Boy.