Since I’ve been reading a lot lately, I decided to buy myself yet another book - Jasper Fforde’s The Well of Lost Plots - third in a series about a detective named Thursday Next who hops into books and solves literary crimes - for example, in the first book, Jane Eyre gets kidnapped and it’s Thursday’s job to save Jane and restore her to her rightful book. It’s very British in humour and thoroughly enjoyable. If you’re reading ralenth and Owen, you’d love the series if you don’t already know about it.
Last night I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and it was great. To be honest I can’t really remember well enough to judge whether it’s faithful to the book (I confess they all begin to blur into one big conglomerate entity). I’m really looking forward to the seventh book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - it’s probably going to be massive as J. K. Rowling has a lot of loose ends to tie up. I’ve heard some rumours that it’s going to be a bit of a deathfest…Rowling seems to be fond of killing off people that readers get attached to.
At the moment I’m reading The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It’s early days yet so don’t know quite what to think but it’s definitely interesting. Another confession - at the moment I’m preferring escapist reading… might halt on it for Eragon.
Seen a few films lately - last week I saw the second Pirates of the Caribbean film, yeah, late I know I know. And yes, just like everyone else I agree it’s nowhere near as good as the first one. Hoping to watch the third one soon. I also saw Marie Antoinette and was thoroughly disappointed. There’s a lot of eye candy, but not much else. Bit insulting to one’s intelligence, really. So yeah, avoid it or you’ll be crying for those hours of your life back, I swear it.
Violent_Kitten | 21-Jul-07 at 5:49 pm | Permalink
I was going to see Harry Potter today, but the trains are off and I just couldn’t be bothered getting a bus in the cold! That and I got up at midday after going to bed at 4am thanks to jetlag! I can’t remember most of the plot either…one day I might read them all again. I haven’t even read the 6th book yet…I’m going to have to walk around saying “Lalala…can’t hear you!” re who dies. I wonder if I can avoid finding out?
Grace Notes @ Snarkattack | 23-Jul-07 at 10:11 pm | Permalink
Ugh, jetlag, yeah remember that old buddy. It took me two months to get over it when I went to the UK which was as long as I spent there, oddly enough.
The first few Harry Potter books all blur a bit into one another for sure. I’m so annoyed, I just read a blog that really spoilt the last book for me…I might actually unsubscribe from it as a result. Don’t worry hon, I won’t spoil any of it for you.