Online book shopping is my therapy
Sooo.. I was thrilled just now because I found some books I was looking for in Amazon in bargain price, and they were EXTRA cheap! Only US$2.00-3.00!! I mean, I literally wanted to jump in joy seeing that because it's pretty much like buying local books instead of imported ones. So I quickly ordered a bunch of them, and then I got to the details page and gawked at the shipping & handling price. 24 - TWENTY FOUR freaking dollars! That's more expensive than my total of four books' price combined ($19)! How annoying is that? I checked my older orders and discovered they're usually just around $19, but that's because the other two times I ordered only 3 books and this time I bought 4. So in conclusion, I might've been able to buy more books because of the insane bargain price, but it won't matter in the end because the shipping will be more expensive the more books you buy. So it just evens out in the end and I think I'm paying the same all in all. Sigh. I hate you Amazon for not owning a branch here in my lovely country. (If you're wondering, I still bought them anyway. Because. Books!)
I saw lots of movies lately; Sherlock Holmes, which I loved and already want to see again because we saw it in the theater and it was full and we had to sit like three rows from the front and my neck hurt and I feel like I missed a lot being pushed that up close to the screen, but anyway, I liked it a lot. I generally like intelligent movies like that, you know? I kinda wondered at first if all the supernatural stuff was for real because they usually don't turn out so in detective stories... so the ending was satisfying even if I didn't really understand everything that was said, LOL.
The Time Traveler's Wife was... strange. It was nearly 2 hours but for some reason I felt being rushed through it. Maybe because the book had so many things happening and there are a lot to tell? And they already cut a lot, and it still felt way too rushed. And it's just weird seeing two people who are somehow already in love with each other despite Henry only just meeting Clare for the first time in his time in the beginning... that has always kind of bothered me in the novel too. Also, I don't usually think like this, but throughout the movie I kind of wished the director had made the transition a bit more smoothly by adding dates in the corner so we could keep up, you know? Because with so much time traveling it's hard to remember how old Henry was and what year it was.
And I would've added a voice-over in the beginning explaining his time traveling stuff, sort of self-narrating... I think that would 1) explain things better and 2) be a little bit more dramatic because that hurried explanation to little Henry after the accident is just going to catch most people off guard. I don't know if I would've understood everything if I hadn't read the book first. It's interesting to suddenly think about directing approaches like that though - what I would have done differently - it never happened when I watch any other movie. Maybe I have an interest in film-making after all.
But since I'm such a sappy romantic kind of girl, I still cried by the time they reached the end, because ugh. Knowing when you're going to die is such a horrible thing. This is why people aren't supposed to be privy to that knowledge.
I saw lots of movies lately; Sherlock Holmes, which I loved and already want to see again because we saw it in the theater and it was full and we had to sit like three rows from the front and my neck hurt and I feel like I missed a lot being pushed that up close to the screen, but anyway, I liked it a lot. I generally like intelligent movies like that, you know? I kinda wondered at first if all the supernatural stuff was for real because they usually don't turn out so in detective stories... so the ending was satisfying even if I didn't really understand everything that was said, LOL.
The Time Traveler's Wife was... strange. It was nearly 2 hours but for some reason I felt being rushed through it. Maybe because the book had so many things happening and there are a lot to tell? And they already cut a lot, and it still felt way too rushed. And it's just weird seeing two people who are somehow already in love with each other despite Henry only just meeting Clare for the first time in his time in the beginning... that has always kind of bothered me in the novel too. Also, I don't usually think like this, but throughout the movie I kind of wished the director had made the transition a bit more smoothly by adding dates in the corner so we could keep up, you know? Because with so much time traveling it's hard to remember how old Henry was and what year it was.
And I would've added a voice-over in the beginning explaining his time traveling stuff, sort of self-narrating... I think that would 1) explain things better and 2) be a little bit more dramatic because that hurried explanation to little Henry after the accident is just going to catch most people off guard. I don't know if I would've understood everything if I hadn't read the book first. It's interesting to suddenly think about directing approaches like that though - what I would have done differently - it never happened when I watch any other movie. Maybe I have an interest in film-making after all.
But since I'm such a sappy romantic kind of girl, I still cried by the time they reached the end, because ugh. Knowing when you're going to die is such a horrible thing. This is why people aren't supposed to be privy to that knowledge.