I had expectations. I can only say that probably because I didn't like Alice in Wonderland anyway, so I didn't like this much either. But I can feel that a nice stage version of this may be good. It would be the difference between the obc spring awakening and the deaf west revival of spring awakening (mentioning spring awakening because of the author(s))
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.
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.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like …
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.
