well i liked metamorphosis but i don't really know what i can say about it at this point. maybe later after i think about it more.
i've been struggling through this sci fi book for the last week and a half. i actually got it because i thought it'd be easy to read, but it's a little more lame than i thought. it's part of a series and a few months ago i randomly picked up the first book in the series because it was about archaeology. it wasn't great but it was an easy read so i that's why i picked up this one. the thing i hate about a lot of sci fi is that it turns things that should be mind-blowing into ordinary mundane events. in this book these people just discovered three new intelligent alien species and they're just like "yeah whatever let's move on." yeah well whatever to you too, book. i have about a third of the way to go (and honestly i'm not hating it as much as it may seem, i'm just kind of annoyed because i'm taking forever to read it). also these people trample over alien remains wantonly and it makes my long dormant inner-archaeologist queasy.
kafka on the shore was okay, probably my favorite murakami book so far but i'm really sick of him so i'm not going to go looking for his others now. the book is way too long and could be much better if it cut out a lot of the boring, pointless details that litter the story (i don't really need to know exactly how the character cooks his spaghetti).
in movies, i saw kick-ass recently and thought it was really stupid. it's weird because I really expected to enjoy it, but it was so poorly executed i couldn't. it got off on the wrong foot from the very start with the not-as-clever-as-it-thinks monologue voice-over thing and it never really recovered. it was more violent than i expected, but apparently that's because it was being faithful to the comic book, and if the story weren't so poorly told i'd probably be able to live with it. nick cage was pretty cool in it though, for what that's worth.
i also saw the curse of the golden flowers, which apparently a lot of people hated but i found decent enough. visually the movie was great. some people complained that it was excessively colorful or whatever but i thought it worked. it wasn't a real mind-blowingly original story but as a shakespearean sort of royal family tragedy it was enjoyable. the fight scenes were pretty crazy and i wish there were a few more of them (but spaced out because if there were any more at the end it would have been too much).
i've had The American sitting at my desk for over a week, but i keep putting off watching it. this is especially timely because someone in od just made a thread about it. also i'm planning on watching Let Me In soon. i loved loved the swedish version so i hope this version is great as well. i also bought the book for cheap at the borders closing sale, but i have a lot of books to read now so it might be a while until i get to it, especially if this silly sci fi book takes any longer.
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