Twitter Digest: 2009-03-08
Woo hoo. Free Watchman matinee and very cool Majestic Bay theater. # Watchmen so-so. Don’t see the fuss. Nice effects, but the scenes and story progression disjointed. Book better. Odd soundtrack. # OS X...
Tagged: book
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country is my third Bryson read after A Walk in the Woods and A Short History of Nearly Everything, and I have to say his work is really growing on me. ...
50 Classics: Madame Bovary
If I was looking for a pick-me-up after the likes of The Sound and The Fury and Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary was not it. The novel is definitive Realism, polishing no edges and...
50 Classics: The Sound and The Fury
While I acknowledge that Faulkner successfully experimented with a very unusual technique in creating this book, I do not think the novel is all that compelling as a work in itself. So little in...
50 Classics: Watership Down
Although work had all but eaten my brain yesterday, I did manage to eventually unwind enough to sit down and finish Watership Down from my slowly shrinking list of 50 Classics. I’d seen the...
