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alobear Bringing Up Baby is one of the most bizarre films I've ever seen. Considering it involves perhaps the most annoying and irrational character in film history, I'm surprised I enjoyed it as much as I did, but Cary Grant and leopard more than made up for Katherine Hepburn's nonsensical and machiavellian actions.
Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde was another very pleasant suprise. After reading The Eyre Affair, I wasn't planning on bothering with the rest of the series, but failed to remove them from my Amazon wish list and so got two for Christmas. The first book was rather too clever for its own good, relying on puns and literary jokes rather than characterisation, which made it rather shallow. The first 50 pages of Lost In A Good Book looked to be going the same way but the main plot turned out to be much more personal and emotional than before, which meant the main character of Thursday Next was much more sympathetic. Also, once the story got going, the clever-clever stuff took a welcome back seat and it actually turned into a really good book. It helped that Thursday visited several books I like a great deal more than Jane Eyre, which made the book-jumping much more entertaining.
My favourite lines were:
"This is preposterous!" cried Hopkins.
"No," replied the magistrate with a smirk, "this is Kafka."
The conclusions of the various major plotlines were a little anti-climactic and also a little contrived, but overall an excellent read, and I'm looking forward to the next one.
Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde was another very pleasant suprise. After reading The Eyre Affair, I wasn't planning on bothering with the rest of the series, but failed to remove them from my Amazon wish list and so got two for Christmas. The first book was rather too clever for its own good, relying on puns and literary jokes rather than characterisation, which made it rather shallow. The first 50 pages of Lost In A Good Book looked to be going the same way but the main plot turned out to be much more personal and emotional than before, which meant the main character of Thursday Next was much more sympathetic. Also, once the story got going, the clever-clever stuff took a welcome back seat and it actually turned into a really good book. It helped that Thursday visited several books I like a great deal more than Jane Eyre, which made the book-jumping much more entertaining.
My favourite lines were:
"This is preposterous!" cried Hopkins.
"No," replied the magistrate with a smirk, "this is Kafka."
The conclusions of the various major plotlines were a little anti-climactic and also a little contrived, but overall an excellent read, and I'm looking forward to the next one.
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Date: 2008-01-09 03:12 pm (UTC)Was it just me or was it right after Katherine Hepburn has destroyed his career, the last four years of his work and his wedding that he decided he was in love with her?
What's for encore? At least she's rich enough...
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Date: 2008-01-09 04:09 pm (UTC)Still, as you point out, she did give him a million dollars...