Weekend

[altariel]

The friends planning to visit us had to cancel at the last minute, which left us with a clean house and an unanticipated empty evening. We used it semi-profitably watching The Bourne Identity and then the end of the Sly remake of Get Carter which ends with Sly killing Michael Caine, saying a fond farewell to the daughter, and driving off into the sunset. Abominably wrong.

In town on Saturday I had book binged, picking up (on 3 for 2) Life of Pi (my reading group's next choice; anticipating ambivalently), The Lovely Bones (recced by kathyh; anticipating greatly), and Eats, Shoots and Leaves (quick read, enjoyable enough). Also Le Guin's new book about planes, and Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium. Welcome to the pile. At the moment I'm reading a bunch of crime books by David Peace, set in Yorkshire during the 1970s - pretty bloody brutal and depressing, to be honest; Get Carter is invoked in one of the reviews on the blurb.

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[manna]

the end of the Sly remake of Get Carter which ends with Sly killing Michael Caine, saying a fond farewell to the daughter, and driving off into the sunset.

Nooooooo!

{weeps}

On the plus side...

[(Anonymous)]

...we have 400 kilos of beef stew in the freezer which will keep us going in the event of a new ice age or similar global catastrophe.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Sly remake: Aaaaaaargh. I knew there must be a reason I hadn't watched it. It's just... Wrong.

I think a mutual RL friend has been recommending The Lovely Bones, as well. Hope you enjoy it.

I read a few snippets of Eats, Shoots and Leaves in Borders, but I couldn't work up enough enthusiasm at the time to buy it. Is it worthwhile? I do like a collection of her weekly columns from a few years ago, called Making the Cat Laugh.

[kathyh]

The Lovely Bones (recced by kathyh; anticipating greatly)

I used to make it a policy never to rec books, but since I've been on LJ that seems to have changed. Hope you enjoy it (though I'm not sure enjoy is quite the right word).

and Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium.

That gets a recommendation as well.

At the moment I'm reading a bunch of crime books by David Peace, set in Yorkshire during the 1970s - pretty bloody brutal and depressing, to be honest;

I don't know those. The DH is a big Reginald Hill fan. Is there any similarity apart from the Yorkshire setting?

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

the Sly remake of Get Carter which ends with Sly killing Michael Caine, saying a fond farewell to the daughter, and driving off into the sunset. Abominably wrong.

Oh, I don't know. I saw a print of the Mona Lisa with a scrawled-on Groucho Marx moustache, and I thought it was a vast improvement over the po-faced original.

death by biro

[catalyst42.livejournal.com]

How'd you like "The Bourne Identity"? I loved it, although my enjoyment may have been enhanced by never having read the book. Refreshing to have a film of this type without the clutter of vast numbers of special effects obscuring the story.

OT

[akanthis.livejournal.com]

Completely oft topic, but have you heard of Keith Hopkins´death? Cantabrigian classical historian, sociological approach?