Finally, watched Avatar last night and I LOVED IT. I love the animation, I love the action sequence and all things considered the plot is pretty good. (Ahem I give you 2012 as comparison.)I only wish one day in the not too distant future I can watch it in 3-D. At home.
Going to be sacrilegious and just go ahead and say it. I don’t get nor, particularly enjoy Murakami. As in I know, he’s the Japanese Wonder boy and I’m super un hip if I don’t like him but like… whatever. :POkay, maybe its just a half-truth. I don’t think any of the short stories in After The Quake connected with me even though it really did try to take my time and read each one slowly and take post-story analysis breaks to extract meaning.I really liked “The Little Green Monster” which is part of The Elephant Vanishes collection, but I heard it on select shorts podcast so I think hearing a actor say the story make all the difference.Final query: Why do Audiobooks generally have the most monotone-voiced person telling the story? I recently heard The Tell Tale Heart on Selected Shorts and man, I’ve read the story before but it was AMAZING having heard it. And also the reason why David Sedaris audio books are so fun to listen to over and over again. Alright, that’s my rant of the day.
Finally finished – Breaking The Curfew by Emma Duncan.Yes, so it’s an old book about Pakistan and reading a book about politics in history written in 1989 fully 20 years later in 2009 is a little weird. What is surprisingly un-weird is how much the class, political, tribal and ethnic breakup (and alliances, affinity, identity) that the writer describes (with clarity, sharpness and openess) is still so valid today.Most of the key players in the book in Politics, Tribal Power, Feudal Power, Business Power are the same people from 20 years ago, or at least from the same family. The army and its power play is the same. All you really have to do is replace soviet threat with Tabliban and whamo – you gotta book for 2010.