On the subject of various books
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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Earlier, I was secretly using the library computer for an hour longer than I was supposed to and got kicked off by the next person on line. Oops. ::innocent grin::
Anyway, I also wanted to mention that instead of watching The Way Home on Wednesday, my parents and I rented Yeopgi jeogin keunyeo and Miseulgwan yeop tongmulwon (yes, I really can't romanize, I think the official translations are: "My Yupgi Girl" and "The Zoo Next to the Art Gallery."). Both were actually quite funny and not sappy, though they do belong to the genre of--::dramatic pause::--the romantic comedy. ::gasp:: But they were well written and really amusing, and I actually followed the dialogue completely. Although I have a feeling that Tryo-chan might have missed the jokes in My Yupgi Girl when she saw it, because a lot of them require cultural context. Oh well. "Yupgi" by the way means "strange" or "bizarre" and is normally used in the context of "a most bizarre murder case," i.e. something along the lines of serial semi-cannibalistic dismemberment...O_O
I finished The Biographer's Tale, which was pretty strange, but I enjoyed it. I don't know why I enjoyed it, but I did. Not quite as much as Possession, which it paralleled in some ways, but it was an engrossing story, with flashes of humor and a slightly surrealistic tinge to it, i.e. occasionally events would slowly slip over the edge until you weren't quite sure whether you both as the reader and as the character weren't dreaming everything. So yes, liked it and would recommend it. (Not that recommending ever does anything...)
Started re-reading the LotR and realized how absolutely different the movies were from the books, though I still say that Peter Jackson couldn't possibly have done a better job than he did. There were some significant differences in mood and style, but let me just mention some of the trivial cases, like characters. Before the movie, when I read the book, I actually thought of Sam as rather young, almost like the gardener boy--older than Pippin, but still younger than Merry or Frodo. Correspondingly, I thought of him as dark-haired and sort of on the thin side--lithe, you know? Now, I have this odd shifting hybrid of Sean Astin as Sam and my former image. It's sort of settling down into former Sam with Sean Astin's voice, which works. I also realized that I never thought of Merry as a comic character. I mean, he's light-hearted and funny, but he has an air of authority (as future Master of Buckland, I presume) in the books that didn't really come out in the FotR movie, although it's starting to show in the TT. Oh, and Gandalf had been very different in my mind as well, though now I can't think of anyone except Ian McKellen's character as him.
Random note: I never pictured Frodo as old, just middle-aged, and I now have the justification for it! Hobbits come of age at thirty-three, which I presume is equivalent to the human age of eighteen. So the conversion factor from hobbit age to human age is 6/11. Frodo is about fifty (fifty-one, perhaps, like Bilbo in The Hobbit?) when he sets out on his quest. So by my conversion factor, he's about twenty-seven in human years. Of course, I never pictured him as pretty, youngest-of-them-all Elijah Wood either.
What else was I going to say? Oh yes. Welcome to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lianara, who has now succumbed to the LJ fad as well! Mwahahaha!
...Tari
Earlier, I was secretly using the library computer for an hour longer than I was supposed to and got kicked off by the next person on line. Oops. ::innocent grin::
Anyway, I also wanted to mention that instead of watching The Way Home on Wednesday, my parents and I rented Yeopgi jeogin keunyeo and Miseulgwan yeop tongmulwon (yes, I really can't romanize, I think the official translations are: "My Yupgi Girl" and "The Zoo Next to the Art Gallery."). Both were actually quite funny and not sappy, though they do belong to the genre of--::dramatic pause::--the romantic comedy. ::gasp:: But they were well written and really amusing, and I actually followed the dialogue completely. Although I have a feeling that Tryo-chan might have missed the jokes in My Yupgi Girl when she saw it, because a lot of them require cultural context. Oh well. "Yupgi" by the way means "strange" or "bizarre" and is normally used in the context of "a most bizarre murder case," i.e. something along the lines of serial semi-cannibalistic dismemberment...O_O
I finished The Biographer's Tale, which was pretty strange, but I enjoyed it. I don't know why I enjoyed it, but I did. Not quite as much as Possession, which it paralleled in some ways, but it was an engrossing story, with flashes of humor and a slightly surrealistic tinge to it, i.e. occasionally events would slowly slip over the edge until you weren't quite sure whether you both as the reader and as the character weren't dreaming everything. So yes, liked it and would recommend it. (Not that recommending ever does anything...)
Started re-reading the LotR and realized how absolutely different the movies were from the books, though I still say that Peter Jackson couldn't possibly have done a better job than he did. There were some significant differences in mood and style, but let me just mention some of the trivial cases, like characters. Before the movie, when I read the book, I actually thought of Sam as rather young, almost like the gardener boy--older than Pippin, but still younger than Merry or Frodo. Correspondingly, I thought of him as dark-haired and sort of on the thin side--lithe, you know? Now, I have this odd shifting hybrid of Sean Astin as Sam and my former image. It's sort of settling down into former Sam with Sean Astin's voice, which works. I also realized that I never thought of Merry as a comic character. I mean, he's light-hearted and funny, but he has an air of authority (as future Master of Buckland, I presume) in the books that didn't really come out in the FotR movie, although it's starting to show in the TT. Oh, and Gandalf had been very different in my mind as well, though now I can't think of anyone except Ian McKellen's character as him.
Random note: I never pictured Frodo as old, just middle-aged, and I now have the justification for it! Hobbits come of age at thirty-three, which I presume is equivalent to the human age of eighteen. So the conversion factor from hobbit age to human age is 6/11. Frodo is about fifty (fifty-one, perhaps, like Bilbo in The Hobbit?) when he sets out on his quest. So by my conversion factor, he's about twenty-seven in human years. Of course, I never pictured him as pretty, youngest-of-them-all Elijah Wood either.
What else was I going to say? Oh yes. Welcome to
lianara, who has now succumbed to the LJ fad as well! Mwahahaha!...Tari
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Date: 2002-12-28 12:24 pm (UTC)Though I did watch a little of the beginning, and that whole part with that guy dragging this random girl who he keeps bumping into, into this motelroom, muahahahaha..
Yeah...
O.o