Book and Movie
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lanalucyOverclocked by K.S. Augustin
This was a marvelously intricate story for a novella (108 pages), meaty and satisfying. There were parts of it that, despite the author's down-to-earth explanations, still went over my head, but I'm okay with reading material that challenges me.
I enjoyed the evolution of Carl from playboy scientist out for the fame and glory to a self-sacrificing man who believed his actions could, and were necessary to, save the world.
The descriptions of the internal landscape of the internet were useful in visualizing what Carl and Tania were experiencing - not everyone who was there saw things the same way, and the differences were interesting in themselves.
As with the previous book I read, the formatting was phenomenally well-done, and really made reading this a pleasure - chapters were clearly divided, no orphaned lines or stray words in the middle of paragraphs. A lot of indie-published authors are less perfectionist, and I deeply appreciate the care that Augustin takes in making these books easy on the eyes.
Last night at the dollar movie (Tuesday, so literally one dollar) we saw After Earth. I love Will Smith, and like most of his movies, even if they do pander to the crowd. I'm one of the crowd, after all. And I may be one of the few who don't mind being emotionally manipulated at the movies, when I go into it knowing that I will be.
As an emotional movie, a father-and-son bonding experience, I'd give this movie an A rating. The characters went from being veritable strangers to each other to really close through a shared life-or-death trek (even though the son was alone physically). The final scene between the two was okay - I think it could have had more emotional resonance had it truly book-ended with an earlier scene, though the way they played it worked for the younger character, I guess.
The music over the opening monologue was a bit much - I had trouble understanding most of what Jaden's character was saying. I definitely could have used captions.
There were sciencey things with which I took issue, and those detracted, but mostly I just chose to suspend my disbelief. They did nearly lose me with the trek up the ACTIVE VOLCANO. WTF?
The movie was beautiful, no doubt about it, and left me with a strong desire to find out where they filmed so I could go visit (Costa Rica, apparently).
I did not know this was a Shyamalan movie, so that was a surprise - for some reason, I had thought this was based on a book or a novella. :shrugs:
ETA: Also, just got another editing enquiry! For money! Woot!
This was a marvelously intricate story for a novella (108 pages), meaty and satisfying. There were parts of it that, despite the author's down-to-earth explanations, still went over my head, but I'm okay with reading material that challenges me.
I enjoyed the evolution of Carl from playboy scientist out for the fame and glory to a self-sacrificing man who believed his actions could, and were necessary to, save the world.
The descriptions of the internal landscape of the internet were useful in visualizing what Carl and Tania were experiencing - not everyone who was there saw things the same way, and the differences were interesting in themselves.
As with the previous book I read, the formatting was phenomenally well-done, and really made reading this a pleasure - chapters were clearly divided, no orphaned lines or stray words in the middle of paragraphs. A lot of indie-published authors are less perfectionist, and I deeply appreciate the care that Augustin takes in making these books easy on the eyes.
Last night at the dollar movie (Tuesday, so literally one dollar) we saw After Earth. I love Will Smith, and like most of his movies, even if they do pander to the crowd. I'm one of the crowd, after all. And I may be one of the few who don't mind being emotionally manipulated at the movies, when I go into it knowing that I will be.
As an emotional movie, a father-and-son bonding experience, I'd give this movie an A rating. The characters went from being veritable strangers to each other to really close through a shared life-or-death trek (even though the son was alone physically). The final scene between the two was okay - I think it could have had more emotional resonance had it truly book-ended with an earlier scene, though the way they played it worked for the younger character, I guess.
The music over the opening monologue was a bit much - I had trouble understanding most of what Jaden's character was saying. I definitely could have used captions.
There were sciencey things with which I took issue, and those detracted, but mostly I just chose to suspend my disbelief. They did nearly lose me with the trek up the ACTIVE VOLCANO. WTF?
The movie was beautiful, no doubt about it, and left me with a strong desire to find out where they filmed so I could go visit (Costa Rica, apparently).
I did not know this was a Shyamalan movie, so that was a surprise - for some reason, I had thought this was based on a book or a novella. :shrugs:
ETA: Also, just got another editing enquiry! For money! Woot!
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Date: 2013-07-17 05:52 pm (UTC)Woot for another editing gig! Sweet!