Biggest Book Meme EVER

(Like I could resist that)

Gacked from antonia_east:

Bold those you've read. Italicize those you haven't finished. Underline those
you own.

( The list )

This beast starts off with the Big Read top 100 books and then grows into a
monster list.

Movie-ramblings

Thanks to Boxman (local Netflix equivalent), I've seen a lot more movies in the past few months than I did when I relied on tv, the local video-store and my 1-4 annual visits to the cinema. The funny thing is that this made me realize that some movies probably would be better in a cinema. Like Minority Report, which would have made more sense and been more scary and exiting, if I had been forced to watch it in one sitting. (I took me two week to get through it. Two weeks. Aaargh. Also, the visuals - the part I liked best - would have been more impressive.) Or Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, which is so choke-full of little visual details that it feels cluttered on a moderately-sized tv-screen.

And then, this weekend, I saw Lawrence of Arabia. And damn. Damn. I wasn't even born when it was first released, so I thankfully don't have to curse myself for being cheap and not seeing it in a cinema. I'm not much taken with the plot - mostly because I half-remember having read that it's pretty inaccurate, and I've become suspicious of biopics in general. (I liked De-Lovely, because when a biopic starts with the main character being visited by an angel who drags him off to stage a musical about his life, you can bet it won't be 100% - or even 50% - truthful.) But the visuals - most of the time it's just "OK, sand pretty, camels pretty, Omar Sharif pretty" (Peter O'Toole goes past pretty and into creepy-looking most of the time. Maybe it's the eyeliner.) - but now and again some shot like the opening credits, or Ali approaching the well, or the sunrise comes a long and it's just -

[stops before I drag in Plato's Cave]