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Whistle-stop reviews
Nov. 9th, 2014 01:17 pmGreat Britain:
New show at the Haymarket - overall, not really my thing, though some of the recurring jokes (the idiot police commissioner and the mock rival newspaper front page) were quite funny. Certainly worth the entrance fee (we got the tickets free...)!
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scalzi:
I really enjoyed this compilation of entries from Scalzi's blog. It covered a broad range of topics in his straight-forward style, unconcerned with possible offence and very entertaining. I agree with a lot of his views, which is probably why I enjoyed it so much.
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara:
A random audiobook I found on my ipod one day - first in a trilogy, telling the story of a young woman who works for a sort of law agency in a fantasy city. There were different races (based on various animals - lions, eagles, dragons), magic and intrigue, but it wasn't good enough to make me want to listen to more in the series.
One Soul by Ray Fawkes:
This is a very ambitious graphic novel - an excellent idea, mostly well executed, though a little difficult to follow. It has eighteen panels on each double page, each one telling the story of a different person, being born, growing up, living and dying in eighteen different time periods and locations throughout the world. It took me a while to get the hang of it, and I had to flip back a lot to remind myself of who was who. It also wasn't very jolly, as most of the lives described didn't involve a huge amount of happiness - but it was very clever and a really interesting reading experience.
Interstellar:
What do say about Interstellar? Well, I really liked the robots!
Um... It was very long. I think my brain melted about two thirds of the way through - and I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the direction the film took after this point. It had previously all been based in hard science and empirical analysis, and then it all went a bit wibbly.
Still, I really liked the robots!
New show at the Haymarket - overall, not really my thing, though some of the recurring jokes (the idiot police commissioner and the mock rival newspaper front page) were quite funny. Certainly worth the entrance fee (we got the tickets free...)!
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scalzi:
I really enjoyed this compilation of entries from Scalzi's blog. It covered a broad range of topics in his straight-forward style, unconcerned with possible offence and very entertaining. I agree with a lot of his views, which is probably why I enjoyed it so much.
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara:
A random audiobook I found on my ipod one day - first in a trilogy, telling the story of a young woman who works for a sort of law agency in a fantasy city. There were different races (based on various animals - lions, eagles, dragons), magic and intrigue, but it wasn't good enough to make me want to listen to more in the series.
One Soul by Ray Fawkes:
This is a very ambitious graphic novel - an excellent idea, mostly well executed, though a little difficult to follow. It has eighteen panels on each double page, each one telling the story of a different person, being born, growing up, living and dying in eighteen different time periods and locations throughout the world. It took me a while to get the hang of it, and I had to flip back a lot to remind myself of who was who. It also wasn't very jolly, as most of the lives described didn't involve a huge amount of happiness - but it was very clever and a really interesting reading experience.
Interstellar:
What do say about Interstellar? Well, I really liked the robots!
Um... It was very long. I think my brain melted about two thirds of the way through - and I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the direction the film took after this point. It had previously all been based in hard science and empirical analysis, and then it all went a bit wibbly.
Still, I really liked the robots!
