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Oh, and also...
May. 10th, 2007 03:50 pmI finally watched The Dark Crystal, and quite liked it. It lacks Bowie some of the tension and character depth of Labyrinth, but it was nice.
And as I believe I haven't talked about it yet, I listened to the Wuthering Heights talking book a while ago. So cool! Though I have to say I couldn't see Heathcliff as evil. Actually what made the story so cool was that evil or not didn't really seem to be the question, or rather, not the solution.
With many stories, once you pinpoint who the evil guy is, the plot unravels and everything is plain and simple. But not in this case, and that was really cool. (I know, I'm repeating myself.)
After that, I listened to Jane Eyre. And I must say I don't think the style did the plt justice. There would have been more room for the characters to develop, to flesh out, IMHO. (Yeah, this is me, criticising world literature...) But the POV made that difficult, especially if you didn't want to end up with a novel of Dickens size.
Next on my list of things I must read is Dostoyevsky. I started with the Russians a while ago, reading all our Tolstoys, but I really need to continue. And then I should put in some French authors. It's been ages since I read Camus, and I've never read Stendhal, and that really can't be.
I could read Dostoyevsky in English, somebody donated three books to the library, but if I read a translation in the first place, I might as well stick to German.
I wonder whether I should read the French in original. I started reading Merimée in French a while ago and it was not as difficult as I had expected, but I'm not sure whether I really would understand enough in a novel.
And as I believe I haven't talked about it yet, I listened to the Wuthering Heights talking book a while ago. So cool! Though I have to say I couldn't see Heathcliff as evil. Actually what made the story so cool was that evil or not didn't really seem to be the question, or rather, not the solution.
With many stories, once you pinpoint who the evil guy is, the plot unravels and everything is plain and simple. But not in this case, and that was really cool. (I know, I'm repeating myself.)
After that, I listened to Jane Eyre. And I must say I don't think the style did the plt justice. There would have been more room for the characters to develop, to flesh out, IMHO. (Yeah, this is me, criticising world literature...) But the POV made that difficult, especially if you didn't want to end up with a novel of Dickens size.
Next on my list of things I must read is Dostoyevsky. I started with the Russians a while ago, reading all our Tolstoys, but I really need to continue. And then I should put in some French authors. It's been ages since I read Camus, and I've never read Stendhal, and that really can't be.
I could read Dostoyevsky in English, somebody donated three books to the library, but if I read a translation in the first place, I might as well stick to German.
I wonder whether I should read the French in original. I started reading Merimée in French a while ago and it was not as difficult as I had expected, but I'm not sure whether I really would understand enough in a novel.
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