[****] audiobook
Wonderful stuff. A space-opera, told in first person, about an actor caught up in political intrigue of galactic proportions (in a future imagined in 1956). The imagined martians are as anachronistic as the rockets. Still, I need to read more stuff like this.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
[*]
One of the few books I have started that I actually did not finish. Perhaps I would have slogged through it if I felt like I had some leisure time (that is, time to waste). But I didn't feel that way and this is certainly even more esoteric and off-beat than I was expecting. Somehow this abstract 'novel' (with no real plot, how can it really be a novel?) is referenced or related to the television show Lost. I hope I read enough to figure out how. Something about death and hell and infinite loops, but it was also supposed to be funny (in some Irish way that I didn't understand). We'll see.
P.S. I still haven't seen how this relates to Lost (11/25/06)
One of the few books I have started that I actually did not finish. Perhaps I would have slogged through it if I felt like I had some leisure time (that is, time to waste). But I didn't feel that way and this is certainly even more esoteric and off-beat than I was expecting. Somehow this abstract 'novel' (with no real plot, how can it really be a novel?) is referenced or related to the television show Lost. I hope I read enough to figure out how. Something about death and hell and infinite loops, but it was also supposed to be funny (in some Irish way that I didn't understand). We'll see.
P.S. I still haven't seen how this relates to Lost (11/25/06)
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Kong Unbound (edited by Karen Haber)
[***]
Some of these I skipped, but I read most. Several helped me with insights into the Kong myth and origins. Others were just personal ruminations that were fun, but irrelevent.
Some of these I skipped, but I read most. Several helped me with insights into the Kong myth and origins. Others were just personal ruminations that were fun, but irrelevent.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Living Dangerously: Merian C. Cooper (Mark Cotta Vaz)
[****]
This is the biography of the creator of King Kong. I had not previously known that this guy had lived a life rivaling Indiana Jones or any other adventurer. I thoroughly enjoyed this and might have to read it again. But not too soon, or I'll spoil any chance I have of writing my story about the origins of Kong.
This is the biography of the creator of King Kong. I had not previously known that this guy had lived a life rivaling Indiana Jones or any other adventurer. I thoroughly enjoyed this and might have to read it again. But not too soon, or I'll spoil any chance I have of writing my story about the origins of Kong.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
California Girl (T. Jefferson Parker)
[***] audio
Since we both attended the University of California at Irvine, I've been wanting to read something by this author for a long time. This had it's faults, which other, better critics have called out (the family relations were a bit contrived and clumsy, and the epic sweep did not sweep me up). But I thought the prose was grand and I loved reading about my old stomping grounds in Orange County, California.
Since we both attended the University of California at Irvine, I've been wanting to read something by this author for a long time. This had it's faults, which other, better critics have called out (the family relations were a bit contrived and clumsy, and the epic sweep did not sweep me up). But I thought the prose was grand and I loved reading about my old stomping grounds in Orange County, California.
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