There is not a moment to be lost (at last!)
I was talking recently with lynndyre about this, but haven't mentioned it otherwise--I finally, FINALLY have been reading the Aubrey-Maturin books!
I haven't finished the series, but I'm well along--in the middle of The Letter of Marque, which is 12 of 20 (or 21 if you count the final unfinished book). It's utterly weird that it took me so long--I've ( Read more... )
I haven't finished the series, but I'm well along--in the middle of The Letter of Marque, which is 12 of 20 (or 21 if you count the final unfinished book). It's utterly weird that it took me so long--I've ( Read more... )
I can totally see that! So much science fiction, like age of sail stuff, seems to me to be very "processy"--like, enmeshed in thick layers of Process, of Doing Thing to Other Thing, of how all the moving parts of the created world work together. And if that process leaves you cold or for whatever reason doesn't let you in, then it's gonna be a slogggg.
Oh man I ADORE the movie. So much so much. I've had to force myself to ration out my rewatches, so I don't have it too completely memorized, or at least can let the memorization fade a bit between viewings. And now that I have enough of the books under my belt to have a well-informed opinion, I have no problems whatsoever with the choices that went into the adaptation. Paul Bettany's Stephen may not be 100% the Stephen on the page, but he is made of genuine parts of Stephen's layers, he's definitely a valid angle on Stephen. And that's how adaptations work--a movie can't contain as much as a series of books, it has to choose and angle and streamline. Of course, I think as fans we're all more familiar with this process than non-fans are, given how we constantly choose and angle canon characters into our fiction. We're writing new adaptations every single day!
...man I want to watch M&C again RIGHT NOW. Maybe I'll get lucky and be assigned to write it for Night on Fic Mountain.
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