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bugshaw at 03:22pm on 01/05/2009
bugshaw at 03:22pm on 01/05/2009Where did the month go?
I have read 3 books:
* Scepticism, Inc., Bo Fowler: Satire on religion, told through the viewpoint of a self-aware shopping trolley. Fun, but I wuold have appreciated it a lot more in my early twenties.
* Brasyl, Ian McDonald: Three linked story threads, set in Brazil decades or centuries apart, slowly the links between them come out. Beautifully written, lush wordage. Characters with complicated motives. Shiny futurism and historical Jesuits. VG.
* The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut: I forget how funny he is, though the 1950s culture is receding further and further from me into startling anachronism. More satire on religion. And what free will does a man have, if he's born lucky and acquainted with a man who has seen his future? I want the next book I read to be a Vonnegut.
and only seen one film, and that on DVD rather than the cinema!
* Stage Beauty: Edward Kynaston, a male-playing-female actor in the Restoration era, called a great beauty by Pepys. But these are times of change. An interesting look at the theatre of the time, with a remarkably saucy Nell Gwyn and Rupert Everett does a good turn as King Charles.
I have read 3 books:
* Scepticism, Inc., Bo Fowler: Satire on religion, told through the viewpoint of a self-aware shopping trolley. Fun, but I wuold have appreciated it a lot more in my early twenties.
* Brasyl, Ian McDonald: Three linked story threads, set in Brazil decades or centuries apart, slowly the links between them come out. Beautifully written, lush wordage. Characters with complicated motives. Shiny futurism and historical Jesuits. VG.
* The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut: I forget how funny he is, though the 1950s culture is receding further and further from me into startling anachronism. More satire on religion. And what free will does a man have, if he's born lucky and acquainted with a man who has seen his future? I want the next book I read to be a Vonnegut.
and only seen one film, and that on DVD rather than the cinema!
* Stage Beauty: Edward Kynaston, a male-playing-female actor in the Restoration era, called a great beauty by Pepys. But these are times of change. An interesting look at the theatre of the time, with a remarkably saucy Nell Gwyn and Rupert Everett does a good turn as King Charles.
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