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thenyxie's Ouroboros, I'm overwhelmed by the picture of Dean doing the Rose Tyler Time Vortex things. Seriously, how cool and how gorgeous would it be if Dean were the antichrist and get to do a glowing god-like trance thing?I've just gone through all the SPN RPS podfics in the podfic archive and is making my way through the FPS podfics. They're like a short-cut for me now since I have no idea what the must-reads or hall-of-fame in this fandom are. Sometimes I just wish SPN fics are as easy to navigate as the SV fics were...
Watchmen
Yesterday I finished reading Watchmen in one go and I'm still overwhelmed by this graphic novel. I'll definitely buy this book as I'm quite sure I'll want to read it again. I can see how existentialism, the thought of that age, has affected it. I just wish I could fully feel the Cold War angst that's so fundamental to it - but I was too young in the 80s to have a lasting memory of what it must be like to have a nuclear war looming just over the horizon.
It's a pity only the IMAX version will be uncut. The only screening I can go to on weekdays is 9:30 pm but it'll be close to 12:30 am when it finishes and the IMAX cinema is over an hour away from my home :(
Supernatural RPS
Why did I wait so many years to dip into the SPN RPS fics? And why do I have hang-ups about AU fics again? It's amazing there are so many talented people in the SPN fandom. Not only are the meta great. There are some really great fics too. And in some really unexpected forms no less - like, housecat!Jared/hamster!Jensen slash. Never have interspecies(, non-human) love feel so hot and cute!
ETA: Watchmen is yet another wonderful thing that SPN has led me to try out. But for Jeffrey Dean Morgan, I'd never have read the graphic novel no matter how much the fanboys love it (I still haven't watched Ironman) as I've always been suspicious of what fanboys like.
(...I know, it's a clear sign of procrastination when I'm posting so frequently.)
(Edited because motherhood instinct is not mother nature. Watching Euro 2008 in a different time zone is a health hazard.)
ETA: Over at insanejournal, alchemia has posted a fascinating list of mainstream mpreg books and movies (among others). And it's a sure sign I should stop post the same thing to multiple journals.
just filled my heart with tremendous warmth and made both scenes ten times better than they felt before.
董啟章的書，除了練習簿之外，我最喜歡的就是地圖集。它一點也不沉重，也不像以性別為題材的那幾本小說那麼硬銷（男人寫性別小說，即是男crossposted to aNobii review
ETA: I'm now digging up my old notes on what I've read that are now scattered all over the place (some in hard copy only) so that I can enter the dates I finished reading the books. God, this aNobii thing is really addictive!
God this book is good! Yesterday I was going to follow up on my earlier comment and moan about the stock heroine-changing-a-man-with-love plot but in the rush I got from the marvellous ending of the story I think I can forget that bit. That's no way not to spoil anything if I'm to talk about what I like about this book. I don't know what I should do right now. I don't want to come down from this rush but the characters aren't really good enough for me to read the book again. I guess I'll just have to find something totally different to do - just to ride on this high for a while.
ETA. I never find the tags more apt. This book is really about reading, about the relationship between THE READER and THE WRITER. Although it seems to portray the relationship in a rather exaggerated and surreal way - no way can the reader bond with the writer like that in real life, can it? - it did make me think are we all writing for our Muses, our perfect readers?
- Mood:
excited
Might need to spend a whole night updaitng this booklist then. Somehow the Japanese manga I got just couldn't be imported into this thing.
ETA:
I've entered over 80% of my books in aaNobii, I think. One thing that's really clear from this exercise is that, I'm terribly greedy - I've got about 150 books on my shelves which I haven't even started reading!
http://www.anobii.com/people/opengo
I'd always thought the narrator was a woman.
Nothing in the 1st-person narrative had given me any doubt. I didn't even bat an eyelid when the narrator found a girlfriend. Actually it rather confirmed my pre-conception that it was a woman because I'd seen this book in the Big Gay Read. The unconventional girlfriend seemed just like those weird lesbian characters which occur quite common in LGBT film/tv (at least lesbian rebels are much more common than gay male rebels)
I was shocked when I read this on p.20:
The prospect of meeting your girlfriend's father, or at least one of her fathers, is very intimidating. I began to panic.
"Should I put on a tie? I haven't got a tie."
Huh? When I finally realised in the next paragraphs that the narrator really is a man, I was wondering whether I should've re-read those 20 pages because I'd had a totally different picture in my mind.
I'm still trying to clear the books I've bought over the years. I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories - I'm mostly bored with the former but quite entertained by the latter.
I guess I must've bought Cat's Eye because it's on some women's writings reading list. I like the subject it deals with. In fact, I wish more people would write about growing up as girls. But it's far too slow for my current state of mind. I just don't have the patience to sit through 70 pages before Cordelia actually appears.
Bend Sinister is completely different. Anthologies can be hit-or-miss, especially anthologies of ghetto literature - Bending the Landscape: Fantasy is one of those I don't quite enjoy and haven't really finished - but this book is quite an entertaining mix of varied horror/supernatural and thriller/crime. I even toyed with the idea of using one of the short stories in my translation workshop but I guess anything with sex or homosexuality wouldn't have gone down very well in class discussion, esp. with a professor who is over sixty years old and some classmates who are born again Christians.
ETA: This post took me two days to upload - I don't know what's wrong with LJ. Anyway, I've now finished reading both Bend Sinister and Bending the Landscape: Fantasy. In hindsight, both are just quite forgettable, just another notch on my Books Read list.
- Mood:
groggy
- High Society by Ben Elton
- 香港教育的故事：《從榕樹下到電腦前》
- 1和0的故事 - 卓卓著
- 蒲精列傳Vol.1 不能 - 葉志偉著
- 蒲精列傳Vol.2 確認 - 葉志偉著
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
- 工廠．廚房．垃圾房 —— 香港女工十五年
- 超越「小政府、大市場」—─ 批判新自由主義香港社運文集
- Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll - edited & translated by Lawrence Rogers
- Life in the Cul-de-Sac by Senji Kuroi, translated by Philip Gabriel
- Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
- Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division by Deborah Curtis
I finished the book this morning so that I could bring it to the library along with several books I wanted to give away. I still have tons of books at home which I haven't touched at all after buying - I must enforce the one-in-one-out policy more strictly. And don't shop online.This novel is better than I expected actually. The story feels so real, esp. the protagonist's double life online and off. But the relationship between the protagonist and his boyfriend (who is married and has a child too) and the not very crafted writing reminds me of Invisible Life. Still, there seems to be a fundamental difference between Chinese and English gay romance novels: Chinese ones just seems more harlequin.
So do Taiwanese gay films apparently. Just like Go Go G-boys the fluffy romantic comedy that's just come out.
- Location:home
- Mood:
complacent
香港教育的故事：《從榕樹下到電腦前》 answered the question bothering me throughout my secondary school life: Why the hell do we have the subject Chinese History when there was already World History? And Hong Kong was still a British colony then.
It was an interesting book but sadly the author seems to have the same problem with most Chinese academics - using emotional/loaded words much too often to seem objective or respectable.
- Location:home
- Mood: tired
Waves was my favourite Chinese book at secondary school. I knew my literary translation teacher Prof. McDougall had translated it into English and I knew she liked Bei Dao's poems very much. But I didn't realise Zhao Zhen-kai was Bei Dao and the preface of Waves (Chinese edition) was written by Prof. McDougall until I was doing some spring cleaning today. And I was so stupid to think that Zhao Zhen-kai was quoting Bei Dao's poetry in Waves!
The Answer
written by Bei Dao
translated by Bonnie S. McDougall
Baseness is the password of the base,
Honour is the epitaph is the honourable.
Look how the gilded sky is covered
With the drifting, crooked shadows of the dead.
The Ice Age is over now,
Why is there still ice everywhere?
The Cape of Good Hope has been discovered,
Why do a thousand sails contest the Dead Sea?
I come into this world
Bringing only paper, rope, a shadow,
To proclaim before the judgment
The voices of the judged:
Let me tell you, world,
I - do - not - believe!
If a thousand challengers lie beneath your feet,
Count me as number one thousand and one.
I don't believe the sky is blue;
I don't believe in the sound of thunder;
I don't believe that dreams are false;
I don't believe that death has no revenge.
If the sea is destined to breach the dikes,
Let the brackish water pour into my heart;
If the land is destined to rise,
Let the humanity choose anew a peak for our existence.
A new juncture and glimmering stars
Adorn the unobstructed sky,
They are five-thousand-year-old pictographs,
The staring eyes of future generations.
From The August Sleepwalker
- Location:home
- Mood:
thoughtful
Dunno why The Lazarus Experiment feels a bit all over the place - maybe I'd expected too much from Doctor Who but I think the directing was just off.
Anyway, the trailer is getting me all excited - Jack's back! - and down at the same time - why do we have to wait two weeks for the next ep?!
- Mood:
restless
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