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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:46pm on 01/09/2013
We read Rivers of London for Book Club and I enjoyed it - it's a cop novel, a (not quite coming of age but a bit after that where you get your first job, is there a phrase for that?) novel, a humorous novel, with magic (which I'm less keen on) and chock full of London references and history and odd supernatural creatures that inhabit it in a way that makes me think OMG, how much more is there to London I didn't know? Fast and fun read with lots of good bits.

You could read The Sheltering Sky as being a tiresome film of irritating people who are wandering aimlessly around not quite divorcing, never getting anywhere. But I saw it on the big screen from a 70mm print and will use words like "stunning", "hypnotic", "hallucinatory", and "you can almost smell the camels". I do not want to be any of the people, know them, or share their journey in real life, but I got quite immersed in them living out their story.
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posted by [identity profile] unwholesome-fen.livejournal.com at 08:03pm on 01/09/2013
Yes, basically you have to abandon any notion of working out what the characters' motivations are, and just sit back and enjoy the ride. Also I never did work out why John Malkovich's character has the same name as the capital of Papua New Guinea - perhaps the book explains it.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 08:10pm on 01/09/2013
They're rich, they don't need motivations :-) His name is Porter, shortened to Port, though Porter is still a pretty unusual forename.
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