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Not feeling well today, I think that's the main reason I'm actually updating.
That, and I also need to babble. Which helps me feel better anyway, so it comes back to the same thing, I guess.
I've been reading "The Golden Compass" for most of the day, though I stopped at part 2 because people in my res were starting to think I'd vanished from the face of the earth. It's really a page-turner though, and I admire the ability to grip one's readers so that they literally cannot put the book down until it becomes a life/death situation. I'm not too sure about what I think of Lyra yet, though -- there are times when I know I'm supposed to be seeing her as a charming kid, and there are times when I actually am seeing her as a charming kid, but I'm not quite connecting with her yet. I'll wait to finish the book before I say more, I guess.
Needless to say, I haven't yet seen the movie. With the exception of the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, I'm not that big on movies that have been made from fantasy books ... it's like a switch in my brain that I absolutely cannot shut off when I watch them: "OMG, that's different from the book, how dare they, I can't watch this anymore!" Btw, that switch was on during all of the movies listed above that were the so-called exceptions -- I just, for the most part, was able to ignore it during said movies.
Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better now. A bit, which is totally good. :)
That, and I also need to babble. Which helps me feel better anyway, so it comes back to the same thing, I guess.
I've been reading "The Golden Compass" for most of the day, though I stopped at part 2 because people in my res were starting to think I'd vanished from the face of the earth. It's really a page-turner though, and I admire the ability to grip one's readers so that they literally cannot put the book down until it becomes a life/death situation. I'm not too sure about what I think of Lyra yet, though -- there are times when I know I'm supposed to be seeing her as a charming kid, and there are times when I actually am seeing her as a charming kid, but I'm not quite connecting with her yet. I'll wait to finish the book before I say more, I guess.
Needless to say, I haven't yet seen the movie. With the exception of the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, I'm not that big on movies that have been made from fantasy books ... it's like a switch in my brain that I absolutely cannot shut off when I watch them: "OMG, that's different from the book, how dare they, I can't watch this anymore!" Btw, that switch was on during all of the movies listed above that were the so-called exceptions -- I just, for the most part, was able to ignore it during said movies.
Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better now. A bit, which is totally good. :)