read any good books lately...

The radio adaptation was a shortened version of the novel, not detailing every facet.  It just didn't work very well, in my opinion.

Maybe the book is better.  I would surely hope so.  Even my father didn't like it that much.

I didn't even like any of the characters.  They were all trite and rather annoying.  Even Percival, who doesn't actually have anything to say!

It just felt like a mishmash of good ideas, that didn't go anywhere.  I got lost easily too and wasn't sure what on earth was going on...


Edited by Geck0 - September 23 2007 at 21:58

Geck0 wrote: The radio adaptation was a shortened version of the novel, not detailing every facet.  It just didn't work very well, in my opinion. Maybe the book is better.  I would surely hope so.  Even my father didn't like it that much. I didn't even like any of the characters.  They were all trite and rather annoying.  Even Percival, who doesn't actually have anything to say! It just felt like a mishmash of good ideas, that didn't go anywhere.  I got lost easily too and wasn't sure what on earth was going on...

Of course there's nothing accurately by which to realize, so simply, what's going on, since it's a modern, polyphonic, artistic, turbulent, psychological and emotion-driven writing. It's so fantastic, as much as it is complex, ambitious and depth-endearing.

Even if those "sexual hints" were the clearest thing you understood from the book (or the radio book) (though I remain contrived, there is no "sex sex sex' in The Waves), it would be a "hint" of Woolf's special sexuality, a troubling thing in the society of her days - thus, her characters are also lost from the society and born from the author's emotional personality.

The Waves is a shocking masterpiece, though my favorite remain Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse. For sure, not a masterpiece on everyone's taste. But, by no means, an atrocity.

Rest assure, James, you're not the first (nor the last) to reject Woolf's special and modern art of writing, thinking, personalizing and euphemistic. Like I said, the society has never ever made her think the world's a great place. And that's why she's so special. Both humanized and outcasted within herself, her characters themselves gained the same level of revealed personality, expression, complicated emotion, fear or shadowed philosophy.

darkmatter wrote: I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy by finishing Blue Mars last night.  What a great trilogy!

Your recent posts have inspired me to re-read this epic which I shall do so after I've finished the following two:



About halfway through at the moment; thus far, not as impressed as I usually am with SK - seems a little 'SK by numbers'... Well written as usual, but I feel I've read this before. I shall persevere though.

Once finished, and following many long conversations with friends in Tunisia when on holiday (bearing in mind it was mid-Ramadan when we were there) I've made it my mission to read this little known tome:



In the past, I've read The Bible cover to cover, so I thought I'd give this one a read. I believe I'll find a lot of similarities to the Old Testament, but could be interesting to see it from a different perspective.

Wish me luck.

I've read Pratchets Wintersmith and Making Money this week. Wintersmith is a great story but with far fewer laughs than I would have expected from a Nac Mac Feegle story, and Making Money is a great story filled with hilarious one-liners and a couple of excellent scenes.

Just finished Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Wow, this is even more nihilistic, cynical and powerful than the movie. I strongly encourage anyone who enjoyed the movie to read this book. Admittedly, there aren't many differences between the two though.

andu wrote: I read somewhere that the author was surprised by the different twist from the movie version's ending, and that he even found it better than the books own ending... What do you think? I haven't read it btw...

Hmmh, both endings were excellent as far as I'm concerned. Without giving too much away, the book's ending sort of leaves some things out in the open, unanswered... whereas the movie's ending seems quite final in all its destruction.

Sufism : Veil and Quintessence by Frithjof Schuon and a book by Titus Burckhardt about sacral art(Von Wesen heiliger Kunst in den Weltreligionen).

I am in the middle of reading Catch-22, and it makes me sad to know I can't read it all the time (cause I got other stuff to do)

Geck0 wrote: Those two books look very boring, Angelo!

Less boring than reading through the bulk of your 30000+ forum posts

Here' you have two more:




Edited by Angelo - October 20 2007 at 04:22