Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment.
I am a very nagging person, a fan of terry pratchett, former fan of gaiman who might come back to him after I'm done with pratchett, life-long sherlockian, and some other labels I can't remember at the moment or haven't got yet. I also read layman maths books sometimes to try to save my hopeless academic writing.
Oh yes, books will be recorded in the language I read them in.
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The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It spans …
难以置信，前一本the sea the sea是男的只有在觉得女的喜欢他的时候特别心思细腻想象力丰富，于是我决定换一下回到熟悉的Hardy, 结果Hardy: 男的给自己隔三岔五移情别恋找个理由说是我命中注定的爱人换了个躯壳；然后因为错过了一个情人转而二十年后追她女儿，没成，转而二十年后再追外孙女儿，。。。。。。。。我笑很大声，thomas hardy, everyone（clap clap）. 外孙女儿跟他订婚之后听到坦白时：你追过我妈？还有我外婆？你追过我great grandmother吗？？ 啊笑死我了thomas hardy
A novel.
Content warning just angry rant tbh
This is an extremely fun one because not only is the book very infuriating / traumatising, but I also got doubly infuriated by the analysis of the book, because WHAT are they saying are the themes of the book??? What do you mean he lived a happy and simple life before everything? He lived as the dirt at the bottom of the society before everything okay, well in fact he was not IN the society where it counts, he did not exist in the eyes of the white people, none of them natives did, and it is Intentionally Kept that way, they kept them separated to exploit them, and the only way they were integrated into the modern society was through religion, which was to make it EASIER to control them and exploit them some more, I mean.... you cannot tell me that way of living is happy, why don't you go live like that if it's happy??? If he's given a choice, well he WAS given a choice, would he live like that? Well his hopes say he wouldn't. Those rich white people tried very hard to take the choice away from him. I don't blame him for any murdering he did, I mean ... they came to kill him and his family and steal their hope, is it very wrong to kill them in mostly-self-defence? heh. I feel if anything, author was trying to say the pearl can bring evil and misfortune, which he might be doing in the last 20% of the story, but imo, the pearl just brings out more what's wrong with the society / social structure / the crowd, and less what's wrong in this individual who should have been lucky to have the pearl.
Overall, very good observation, and very good for observing the state-of-the-art.
All I remember from the book is He Really Loves Whales (x).
No, there are great social commentaries, I think that's the most fun part for me, cuz I really wasn't here for whale encyclopedia. And his cannibal friend is fun. I think the captain lost a leg to the whale and so was determined to hunt the whale, I wonder whether it has anything to do with peter pan's captain hook.
There is also a quote about artists are like gods that I really enjoyed, because one day they can make a man a wooden leg from wood and the next day they can make him a casket with the wood, they are capricious and are only concerned with aesthetics.
Dunno what happened with this book record but the title is gone. This comment is just to mark the title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
.... that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
— Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
This is literally the last sentence of the whole book, lmao.
真的很意外一个真的非常狗血家庭伦理剧的剧情最后一段搞得十分jvj，但是我感觉尽管Hardy sort of原谅他了可是我没有！也不能说我没有，就是我觉得这个人就是努力地做个好人了，但是实在是很大意，人就是一不留神自私一下就会害死别人。我觉得最后送人小鸟这个做法就非常summarising the person, it's like a good intention but that is so careless and shortsighted....
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I like it, surprisingly, considering how I didn't like ulysses last time. I'm even giving ulysses a second chance now.
I didn't think I got much out of this one, but today I went to museum and saw an end of WW2 exhibit and got reminded of one line from this: the war was not officially over yet, but the girls were already looking for new jobs that were not so related to war / more stable.
God is dead. Meet the kids.
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i finished the bbc audiodrama version of it! I like it. probably because i haven't finished the book yet so i like it. but yeah i think i stopped the book where it starts to get graphically violent, and i feel the audio version of it, despite still having that, doesn't feel as much. maybe it's more effective when I have to build the scene from text by imagining it myself.
Themewise, ah it is indeed an American Gods. AG the book has touched on that theme of being a shadow of a man, but I think that theme got amplified in the show, and Anasi boys the audiodrama made it very central, the naming, the finding yourself. Supposedly, the other thing is about the story. I feel the audiodrama made it a bit secondary and I suspect that may be what I'd pick up more from reading the book. …
i finished the bbc audiodrama version of it! I like it. probably because i haven't finished the book yet so i like it. but yeah i think i stopped the book where it starts to get graphically violent, and i feel the audio version of it, despite still having that, doesn't feel as much. maybe it's more effective when I have to build the scene from text by imagining it myself.
Themewise, ah it is indeed an American Gods. AG the book has touched on that theme of being a shadow of a man, but I think that theme got amplified in the show, and Anasi boys the audiodrama made it very central, the naming, the finding yourself. Supposedly, the other thing is about the story. I feel the audiodrama made it a bit secondary and I suspect that may be what I'd pick up more from reading the book. But Pterry has done a LOT on stories, which, well, I will just borrow it to use on your friend.
I can't help comparing it to Thief of Time, because of the twin thing. ToT did touch on the feeling incomplete, but i don't think ToT is a clean split like this. .... actually i don't remember what happened with the other twin of Time's, .... and it actually is not so happy-ending as this audiodrama, this one is... so wholesome? why is gaiman being wholesome? Is this changed by the adapting? probably is, considering what they did to pterry's. ehm.
The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent …
uh. I think the best thing about it is it brought back more DS9, and the worst of it is ...... the series is set out to kill off the novel-verse? I mean... if you've got that in mind, everything is just sort of... done. It doesn't feel intriguing, and I don't think this is the sort of doomed hero arc I like.
and you know, you always kill someone important then bring them back, that would make killing them less significant an act if you don't really do it well, and well, I think what with ezri and miles is pretty disappointing to me. idk. it's a bit bland. the only unpredictability probably comes with julian, but .... i also don't like what you did with julian, and i realise the why is because you alana-bloomed him, you broke him. and what was so precious about julian is the …
uh. I think the best thing about it is it brought back more DS9, and the worst of it is ...... the series is set out to kill off the novel-verse? I mean... if you've got that in mind, everything is just sort of... done. It doesn't feel intriguing, and I don't think this is the sort of doomed hero arc I like.
and you know, you always kill someone important then bring them back, that would make killing them less significant an act if you don't really do it well, and well, I think what with ezri and miles is pretty disappointing to me. idk. it's a bit bland. the only unpredictability probably comes with julian, but .... i also don't like what you did with julian, and i realise the why is because you alana-bloomed him, you broke him. and what was so precious about julian is the guy is infuriatingly unbreakbale, like, the bad guys relied on him being unbreakable to actually make their evil plan work. that's how unbreakable julian bashir should be, but... i'm now just curious what could possible happen in that section 31 book that broke julian bashir.
one of the stars is for the bickering between julian and quark: quark: i took the liberty of seperating your latinum from your pocket when i transported you, and Julian: this plan doesn't work, i want my money back and one star for quark: they rebuilt DS9, it looks like the original DS9 from outside, but the inside is now all round things. that's federation for you - take away sharp edges, leave you with all the .. round ... things. uh, is bickering only existing between DS9 crew because. i thought i didn't see it as much in TNG because i haven't watched enough TNG, but... now in the books? it's also like DS9 crew bickering a lot more than when we are seeing the TNG crew.
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I suppose this should be categoried as adventure / action, it is far from what I like about DS9. This is pretty much completing tasks - mystery solving - dashing everywhere to complete new levels, not really a genre I like. It's .... underwhelming that the authors wrote it out of the motivation to reconcile the continuity issues brought up by doing new ST series after the 15 years break. Stability of time-space continuum is overrated, stop your 3D-creature-centred point of view! (?
An all-new novel based on the landmark TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from …
everyone is still adorable. More Dax backstory esp the details of Joran, painful hinting of Julian's unrevealed secret, Worf being worf and Kira being Kira, Trill symbiosis commission being a terrible organisation ( so adorable, Dax gets best versed in creole/cajun food among all earth food because of Sisko! Julian introduced pizza to colleagues! Dax: you don't have a pot of gumbo waiting for me? I feel so unwelcomed.
(I wonder if I start with TNG novels, maybe I can learn to like the people better, then I would be able to watch the series (
