Run & books
Still no Dhoom :(. I really hope they would get the film soon. They do have Rakht, so when it’s next available, I might get that to see the much talked about "One Love" song with Abhi’s special appearance...
Run was pretty bad, as I expected. The story made no sense, and the guy wandering around Mumbai storyline was completely extraneous to the main plot. I ended up mostly fast forwarding every time it came up. The violent brother's acceptance of Abhi in the end when he'd been beaten up by him was really weird.
It wasn't a completely failure, however, since I really liked the songs. Abhi also looked very nice in the film, as did Bhoomika. Abhishek is very good in intense or moody parts, though I would like to see more comedy with him, as well.
Of the books I reviewed last weekend, Stuart Hill's The Cry of the Icemark is probably going to be fairly successful in the YA market. It should be coming out in January 2005.
The story tells about a 14 year old princess of Icemark whose country is threatened by the invincible armies of a vast empire, and who must find new allies to combat this threat. The book has vampires, werewolves, intelligent talking snow leopards and other uncanny creatures in it, but it also has some very believable humans as main characters.
It's the author's first novel which can be seen occasionally. The pace is a bit uneven and the war scenes near the end of the book were a bit too long for my taste. Some of the characters are also left a bit flat, which causes some of the plot points not to be as effective as they should be.
I should be getting three new books to review later this week. I hope at least some of them are good.
Recently I've been on a Anita Blake binge. I read a Laurell K. Hamilton short story in an anthology last weekend and got a strong urge to reread the Anita Blakes. At the moment, the series has 12 books, but I've earlier read only the 6 first ones. I have books 7-9 waiting on my TBR shelf and this time I'll probably get around to them as well.
The funny thing is that I usually don't like violence in literature, but I find these books very addictive. I guess they could be easily summarized by the name of the first book in the series: Guilty Pleasures ;-). Part of their appeal is probably that they give you the same kind of adrenaline rush that some action movies do. I've read comments that later books in the series aren't as good as the first ones, since Hamilton moves the focus more to Anita's complicated love life than on the monsters she fights. As I haven't read them yet, I'll have to wait and see what I think when I get that far.
Run was pretty bad, as I expected. The story made no sense, and the guy wandering around Mumbai storyline was completely extraneous to the main plot. I ended up mostly fast forwarding every time it came up. The violent brother's acceptance of Abhi in the end when he'd been beaten up by him was really weird.
It wasn't a completely failure, however, since I really liked the songs. Abhi also looked very nice in the film, as did Bhoomika. Abhishek is very good in intense or moody parts, though I would like to see more comedy with him, as well.
Of the books I reviewed last weekend, Stuart Hill's The Cry of the Icemark is probably going to be fairly successful in the YA market. It should be coming out in January 2005.
The story tells about a 14 year old princess of Icemark whose country is threatened by the invincible armies of a vast empire, and who must find new allies to combat this threat. The book has vampires, werewolves, intelligent talking snow leopards and other uncanny creatures in it, but it also has some very believable humans as main characters.
It's the author's first novel which can be seen occasionally. The pace is a bit uneven and the war scenes near the end of the book were a bit too long for my taste. Some of the characters are also left a bit flat, which causes some of the plot points not to be as effective as they should be.
I should be getting three new books to review later this week. I hope at least some of them are good.
Recently I've been on a Anita Blake binge. I read a Laurell K. Hamilton short story in an anthology last weekend and got a strong urge to reread the Anita Blakes. At the moment, the series has 12 books, but I've earlier read only the 6 first ones. I have books 7-9 waiting on my TBR shelf and this time I'll probably get around to them as well.
The funny thing is that I usually don't like violence in literature, but I find these books very addictive. I guess they could be easily summarized by the name of the first book in the series: Guilty Pleasures ;-). Part of their appeal is probably that they give you the same kind of adrenaline rush that some action movies do. I've read comments that later books in the series aren't as good as the first ones, since Hamilton moves the focus more to Anita's complicated love life than on the monsters she fights. As I haven't read them yet, I'll have to wait and see what I think when I get that far.