Over the past week I've read:
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (p261, paperback)
Which is funny with the sort of absurd humor that reminds me vaguely of Ros. & Guil. Are Dead (except this is fiction, not play, and it's very, very...not-Hamlet in any sense) but with less depth. Unfortunately I don't like any of the characters, as fun as laughing at their foibles may be.(Which reminds me: what on earth does Bertie do for a living, anyway?) After one book I think I can safely conclude that this really isn't my cup of tea.
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (p55 hardcover)
Mostly because if there's a book-based movie out that I'm interested in I will want to read the book first (though time doesn't always permit this). The writing's not particularly memorable (you don't get a strong sense of the author's style the way you get with Gaiman, for instance), but the story is good and it speaks louder than the writing. Reads like a short folktale, not literature. Also: short. It won't be on my re-read list but I know I'll remember the story for a very long time, so it balances out.
Re-read:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (370 paperback)
Every bit as good as I remembered and a lot more graphic than I remembered, too (though that is probably because I forgot a lot of the details over time). It's one of those fantasy stories that the author has put magic in. It also makes me want to paint. Or at least doodle Escher-isque scenes from London Below on the margins of my to-do list.
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Starting Blind Watchers of the Sky today.
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I got roped into Shelfari, so I'll be playing around with that, too.
3 comments:
"Neverwhere" was sitting there next to "Anansi Boys" at the library and I was very tempted to pick it up. But it's been less than a year, I should forget it properly before reading it again xP I wish they'd make a movie of it. And "Good Omens", what happened to that?
Wikipedia says that NEVERWHERE is originally a TV show of some sort (it's in DVD now, apparently) but the quality isn't that good.
You know what we need? We need stuff like GOOD OMENS and NEVERWHERE done in animation. GOOD animation. Wouldn't those books make awesome animated features?
Yeah, I've seen bits of the TV show on youtube. It's pretty bad.
Animation would be good too!
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