I haz shiny!
The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey Chronicles II, which I ordered through the Bestsellers English bookshop in Bp, has arrived today. It isn't half as exciting as the first part was, which I bought in Vienna, sadly in German translation, but it still has some very nice Hobbit pictures (good for character visuals), nice stories about the final creation of characters and even small interview snippets with the cast, so I'm quite content.
I'd be happier if I had the first part in English, too, mostly for the vocabulary that could be so very useful for writing and can't be find in ordinary dictionaries, but, well, you can't have everything, right? In any case, I'm looking forward to the extended edition of the film that's due to come out in November and will continue much more Hobbiton (hopefully also the Old Took's birthday party).
I also ordered what seems to be the Americam edition of Sherlock: The Casebook. It has the same author, although a different cover picture, so I hope it's the same book. But even if not, it will be interesting.
Still haven't seen the new Star Trek film. My fellow Trekkies over at Memory Alpha are quite divided about it, but I'll at the very least buy the DVD, I think. I know there are people who're not happy with the identity of the main villain (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), and perhaps it would have been better to choose a different one. But I'd have been ever less happy if "John Harrison" turned out to be some nobody, created for this film alone. So shoot me.
I know this isn't Star Trek anymore, not since the Vulcans got villified in "Enterprise" and finally Vulcan itself destroyed in the previous film, so I don't get upset about canon rape and the nullifying of Roddenberry's message any longer. Besides, I never saw a Star Trek movie that I'd like, so I'm not terribly disappointed.
I'd be happier if I had the first part in English, too, mostly for the vocabulary that could be so very useful for writing and can't be find in ordinary dictionaries, but, well, you can't have everything, right? In any case, I'm looking forward to the extended edition of the film that's due to come out in November and will continue much more Hobbiton (hopefully also the Old Took's birthday party).
I also ordered what seems to be the Americam edition of Sherlock: The Casebook. It has the same author, although a different cover picture, so I hope it's the same book. But even if not, it will be interesting.
Still haven't seen the new Star Trek film. My fellow Trekkies over at Memory Alpha are quite divided about it, but I'll at the very least buy the DVD, I think. I know there are people who're not happy with the identity of the main villain (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), and perhaps it would have been better to choose a different one. But I'd have been ever less happy if "John Harrison" turned out to be some nobody, created for this film alone. So shoot me.
I know this isn't Star Trek anymore, not since the Vulcans got villified in "Enterprise" and finally Vulcan itself destroyed in the previous film, so I don't get upset about canon rape and the nullifying of Roddenberry's message any longer. Besides, I never saw a Star Trek movie that I'd like, so I'm not terribly disappointed.