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[calapine]

So this week's Torchwood (this week's for me being last week's in the UK...episode 7, there that's less convoluted) was a pleasant surprise and by pleasant surprise I mean not unrelentingly shit, merely not very good.

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[elisi]

This post made me laugh. I have just posted about ep 7 of TW (hey! it was different!) and Page Eight (hey! It was REALLY NIFTY!).

Clearly great minds think alike. Or something. :)

[calapine]

Well, I've always thought you were an exceptionally sensible sort. :P

[matildabj]

Micheal Gambon is KIND OF BRILLIANT in it, possibly because he has all the best lines and knows it.

I was SO into the Gambon/Nighy double-act. Really enjoyed Page Eight. If you like the Weisz/Krige combo, you should somehow get hold of The Scarlet and the Black from 1993 which is unfortunately All About Ewan McGregor's Man-Pain but in which Weisz and Krige are both very pretty.

I haven't read Connie Willis either, but I've just received a compendium of SF short stories by women and she's in there, so I'm hoping to rectify that. Will also give Remake a go - will you post a review?

[calapine]

*flails* Thank you! I'd no idea they were in another thing together, that's brilliant! (I shall give the manpain a pass for Ewan McGregor being Scottish, yes.)

My review would basically be yay, give it a shot! Or find another of her works where the synopsis appeals, because she knows how to tell a story.

[ext_771164]

Hi. Long time listener, first time caller. Sorry. Hello - keep up the good work. More fiction please! That series with the Tenth Doctor and the Master was delightful in every way.

Anyway, if your looking for Connie Willis recommendations, you couldn't do better than To Say Nothing of the Dog. It has time travel, brims over with references to Three Men in a Boat; Dorothy Sayers; and British Wartime Spirit (which is always nice), and it's funny. A farce, essentially.

[calapine]

Thank you, dear reader. And thank you for the rec! Much appreciated.

[izhilzha]

Really, you should read The Doomsday Book before To Say Nothing of the Dog--the second one is not exactly a sequel, but characters and themes recur in a way that made me VERY GLAD I'd read DB first.

But hooray for someone else discovering Willis! I have loved her stuff almost without exception--Lincoln's Dreams is wrist-slittingly depressing (the one book I've ever said that about), and one of her short stories gave me the squicky creeps. But other than that, oh man, Willis is one of the best things to happen to the past 20 years of scifi. \o/ I'm so pleased she won the Hugo.

[tau_sigma]

cause I hadn't read any (SHUSHT)

*is very shusht* How omg how? I was lucky enough to be introduced to her books by loneraven; I don't know if you need any more recs, but I absolutely love Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing Of The Dog is likewise wonderful, and Passage is very engaging, if slightly weak on the ending, I felt.

Latest Torchwood was almost good! Or perhaps that's sheer relief talking...

[calapine]

BECAUSE, my dear dude, in my teenage years I was SLIGHTLY RUBBISH and a bit in love with all these dead white guys who wrote sci-fi in the fifties/sixties.

Have ordered Doomsday Book; shall add the Dog one to the list, cause have had a few recs now, and thank you!

Latest Torchwood was almost good! Or perhaps that's sheer relief talking...

I sporfled my drink slightly, cause I REALLY DON'T KNOW ANYMORE. The one thing I'm hanging on to is that I love Eve Myles.

[rose_griffes]

I love Passage. I'd agree that it isn't as strong as the other two Willis books you mentioned, but it has such excellent characterization that I didn't want it to end.

[in_the_end]

I was so looking forward to Page Eight then Sunday rolled around and I completely forgot about it. Planning on catching it over the weekend. Can't wait.

[calapine]

Tis well worth the 100 mins, yes! A heartily British spy thingie.