Hearts of Ink
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kerravonsenToday I saw "Inkheart" with my nieces. Good film. I've had "Inkheart" on my to-read pile for ages and ages, so I feel all guilty that I still didn't manage to read it before watching the movie. Well, I shall just have to read it now.
Brendan Fraser was cool. Also the girl playing Meggie was really good.
As for the story... just the right blend of spooky and heroic, with some really good supporting characters.
Meggie's Aunt was delightful. Well, delightful in a very snarky way, of course.
I liked Dustfinger; he was sort of a blend of... Strider and Vila. Dark and grim and charismatic one minute, a selfish coward the next. But in a good way.
The thief was fun; I loved how he was so eager to learn things.
One of my nieces had read the book, the other two hadn't. She said it was a pretty faithful adaption, except that the ending was different. Not too different, but still some things were different.
After the movie, I wandered around the shopping centre, looking for bookstores to see if I could get the next two books in the trilogy (since I already have the first one). Alas, no joy; in one store they only had Inkheart (but they also had Knife! So I bought a copy to have a copy ready to give someone as a present). The other store had Inkheart, Inkdeath, and a all-three-books-in-one-volume tome, which I didn't want to buy because I didn't want to have to lug around such a big book, and since I already have a copy of Inkheart, it would be wasting money to pay for two copies of the same book.
Then I went looking for a new watch. My previous watch still works, but it has no strap (cheap plastic, it broke, and then broke some more, and then it broke a bit more after that). Normally I carry it in my pocket, but this morning I couldn't find it, and it was a bit stressful being without a watch, particularly when one is wandering around a shopping centre and have to meet people at a particular time.
So I went to one jewelery store, and they were not much good. I looked in the window of another, but they didn't have much range either. Then I looked at the Information screen, and found other jewelers, and went to Bevilles. They turned out to have a very large range of watches, so I looked at them all in the window to see what subset of same I would be most interested in. No plastic straps for me this time. Leather. And a digital watch. With 24-hour time. A simple set of requirements, yes? No, apparently not. But the shop assistant was really helpful, and I was laughing at our predicaments (such as not being able to find any instructions for the watches we were looking at) rather than getting cross, and that made it all pretty pleasant. The shop assistant reminded me a bit oflizbee, actually - pretty, young, thin, friendly, helpful.
I now have a new watch. I guess it will take a little while to get used to it; it is much bigger than my previous one, but the strap is really good thick leather, a sort of double-strap, with a wide leather band at the top, and a normal-sized strap over the top of it. The kind of watch that Rick O'Connell would have if he had a digital watch.
Brendan Fraser was cool. Also the girl playing Meggie was really good.
As for the story... just the right blend of spooky and heroic, with some really good supporting characters.
Meggie's Aunt was delightful. Well, delightful in a very snarky way, of course.
I liked Dustfinger; he was sort of a blend of... Strider and Vila. Dark and grim and charismatic one minute, a selfish coward the next. But in a good way.
The thief was fun; I loved how he was so eager to learn things.
One of my nieces had read the book, the other two hadn't. She said it was a pretty faithful adaption, except that the ending was different. Not too different, but still some things were different.
After the movie, I wandered around the shopping centre, looking for bookstores to see if I could get the next two books in the trilogy (since I already have the first one). Alas, no joy; in one store they only had Inkheart (but they also had Knife! So I bought a copy to have a copy ready to give someone as a present). The other store had Inkheart, Inkdeath, and a all-three-books-in-one-volume tome, which I didn't want to buy because I didn't want to have to lug around such a big book, and since I already have a copy of Inkheart, it would be wasting money to pay for two copies of the same book.
Then I went looking for a new watch. My previous watch still works, but it has no strap (cheap plastic, it broke, and then broke some more, and then it broke a bit more after that). Normally I carry it in my pocket, but this morning I couldn't find it, and it was a bit stressful being without a watch, particularly when one is wandering around a shopping centre and have to meet people at a particular time.
So I went to one jewelery store, and they were not much good. I looked in the window of another, but they didn't have much range either. Then I looked at the Information screen, and found other jewelers, and went to Bevilles. They turned out to have a very large range of watches, so I looked at them all in the window to see what subset of same I would be most interested in. No plastic straps for me this time. Leather. And a digital watch. With 24-hour time. A simple set of requirements, yes? No, apparently not. But the shop assistant was really helpful, and I was laughing at our predicaments (such as not being able to find any instructions for the watches we were looking at) rather than getting cross, and that made it all pretty pleasant. The shop assistant reminded me a bit of
lizbee, actually - pretty, young, thin, friendly, helpful.I now have a new watch. I guess it will take a little while to get used to it; it is much bigger than my previous one, but the strap is really good thick leather, a sort of double-strap, with a wide leather band at the top, and a normal-sized strap over the top of it. The kind of watch that Rick O'Connell would have if he had a digital watch.
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Date: 2009-04-25 05:54 pm (UTC)For some funny reason I can´t use a digital watch - I just see some numbers but do not knoe the time. I need a round face and two hands. No, I am not conservative in this case, I just need a visualisation.
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Date: 2009-04-26 10:05 am (UTC)♥♥♥ both versions anyway. Partially because of Brendan Fraser and Paul Bettany. But partially because of how very embedded the book version is in the texture of literature and imagination; it's the kind of book I wish someone had handed me as a child, as a stepping stone on the learning curve between Narnia and Tolkien.
nieces
Date: 2009-04-29 12:55 pm (UTC)Been reading an Arthur C. Clarke book to relax. Wind from the Sun.
See you!
David
Re: nieces
Date: 2009-04-29 01:21 pm (UTC)Yes, it has been very cold.
Been reading an Arthur C. Clarke book to relax. Wind from the Sun.
I don't think I've read that one. But I think I lost interest in Clarke when his later books started getting rather anti-Christian.