(It's relatively present, what I mean is.)
Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
Even the title feels fake... Now, I like this story better, one I felt was little trapped, but this story is more sprawling... or maybe I just like present stories better. There's still miffs and I have the outline ready... So, this is where all the meta-story really begins... I like it, because all the connection seem too coincidental... Kind of literary Brechtian approach of 'this is fiction...' You are like, okay, someone just half-put this shooting star birthmark... what is this, Pan's Labyrinth? Anyway, good but doesn't interests me.
Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
We're going from massive style to massively unreliable narrator... Mitchell tries the six examples of literary error... This chapter is full of reference to the past, the future and every motif that the stories have to coincide with, so the unreliable narrator is good for that. Other than that, really the smallest of events here... I can't really believe the two more stories can spring out from this...
Well, extra long-session day after tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
March Madness: True Detective Ep. 5
In the industrial wasteland, Rust and Ginger wait for a man. A dealer, specifically. Dealer doesn't like Rust, so the deal ends there. Yeah, that feels 80's... Tied up Ginger to Ladeux... 2012 Rust wants the new file... the detectives goes tracking. After going through booby traps... we see the structures and the house. We see a man coming through... seems like a juxtaposition. This detail seems little off... the detective arrest Reggie... Reggie acts crazy and the flat circle line... well, he's dead. And he's dead. So, what happened... with the story... well, the secret was a woman... very nice ruse. The two brings the kids. After a remark about repetition... everything do return. Marty is with Maggie again, roller skate in a circle, Maggie is uncomfortable, though... Rust now have a relationship... but how many of that is... are we just going to ruminate the rest of the episode? That was weird... time skip 2002 goths, worst kind of goth... did Maggie got younger? Rust still ruminating... with Laurie? Seems the teenager have gone... over her head. Nice slap. M-brane, I know. That's not entirely... Interrogation by Rust... Rust giving tips? So, the case is hot again. Oh, really hot now! Yellow King! Marty's aging and traps of time, that's some Sartre stuff, conspiracy? Suicide.., April 1st? Case returns again. Connection to Francis... Cohle suspect? Rust returns once again... Rust finds some error on the archive... 2013 Rust haven't got much... 2002 Rust, however, is looking deeper. Yeah, that doesn't look like Rust... Rust acts like Moriarty, you're saying... Rust leaves the scene. Current detective pressure Marty... 2002 Rust goes deep and finds the mother-lode... Again, nice cinematography... This series has nice scenes.
Monday, March 17, 2014
March Madness: Cloud Atlas, The Past
So, this is the first two 'halves' of the story... then it will be the next two 'halves' of the story... then we will cover the whole 2 last stories and then two "present" then two past... all right?
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
Nellie is an interesting ship name... It's shill to comment on White savages and humanness of the slaves... I mean it just feel ham-fisted. Nice garnish of the scene, Mitchell is known to be good at this. Yeah, I know, I know... jeez. Mixing of the races are nice... Still I feel the ham thrusting at my eyes and I feel like a mother who slightly nods and her son's 'masterpiece.' There's cleverness, but it's not wonderful... Yeah, the story is nice, but eh... it's not getting to me. Lot of details, little plot and that abrupt ending is... I don't know.
Letters from Zedelghem
Weird font... Yes, similarities but also why so many details? I know you need it, but it's a journal, a letter, it doesn't have to be that dense of knowledge. Yes, I know that's the point, but it still feels weird. I feel every fault can be wished away as a theme. Bad writing, oh, it's just fictional. Bad story, but you see it's all connected... I just feel like cheated. Also, it feels the protagonists are deliberately hiding the story... it deflates tension and makes the book boring. It has a pique but no more than that. This story ends cleanly, so that's interesting. Also, nice job bringing up Elgar... doesn't seem needed, but okay.
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
Nellie is an interesting ship name... It's shill to comment on White savages and humanness of the slaves... I mean it just feel ham-fisted. Nice garnish of the scene, Mitchell is known to be good at this. Yeah, I know, I know... jeez. Mixing of the races are nice... Still I feel the ham thrusting at my eyes and I feel like a mother who slightly nods and her son's 'masterpiece.' There's cleverness, but it's not wonderful... Yeah, the story is nice, but eh... it's not getting to me. Lot of details, little plot and that abrupt ending is... I don't know.
Letters from Zedelghem
Weird font... Yes, similarities but also why so many details? I know you need it, but it's a journal, a letter, it doesn't have to be that dense of knowledge. Yes, I know that's the point, but it still feels weird. I feel every fault can be wished away as a theme. Bad writing, oh, it's just fictional. Bad story, but you see it's all connected... I just feel like cheated. Also, it feels the protagonists are deliberately hiding the story... it deflates tension and makes the book boring. It has a pique but no more than that. This story ends cleanly, so that's interesting. Also, nice job bringing up Elgar... doesn't seem needed, but okay.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
March Madness: True Detective, Ep. 4
Recap/Review
Charlie is very angry... the detective talk about Reggie... and Charlie is quite exasperated. Charlie believe Reggie is a creep, and rightly so. Devil worship and what not... Carcossa and Yellow King and spirals... well, all the clues are coming through... Tyrone have something... family all disappeared... it's little awkward now isn't it... the secretary is angry... after briefing, the guys try to find Tyrone, mom have no lead, girlfriends tell nothing... Marty feels awkward, but the bartender after haggling... little lead. Maggie goes and separates... by Lisa, no less. So I guess this is the awkward episode. No one wants to give access... Marty goes deep in to the case... after following to the wilderness... a rave is happening. But maybe the rave is not the main concern... because there's Tyrone. Reggie and bike gang... Iron Crusaders... Marty goes the Maggie's workplace... Marty tries profusely, but the deal has gone too far... Rust has some weapons and a drink... Rust brings the work to break up Maggie... Marty blames but Rust brings the truth... Rust says getting close... Rust shows his gun to Marty and his gruesome story... (leave of absence... pop's leukemia...) Marty apparently needs to live at Rust's place now... Rust steals cocaine from the evidence room... Rust talks to Maggie about the relationship... but it doesn't really pan out. Sting is in operation... he got in and after talking (accent is different...) the coke is deployed and the cook's identity is almost there... it's almost when Marty... goes in but it doesn't give suspicion, it looks like. Almost there and plan is starting to set... they lead the black guy to the dealing place... the heist is not done well... so, Plan B... total miss they bring the ginger all around the town, till Marty shows up... so a crime bust and a major lead... the whole scene is such a beauty of camera-work... all the panning and blocking of the street reminds me of David Fincher...
Charlie is very angry... the detective talk about Reggie... and Charlie is quite exasperated. Charlie believe Reggie is a creep, and rightly so. Devil worship and what not... Carcossa and Yellow King and spirals... well, all the clues are coming through... Tyrone have something... family all disappeared... it's little awkward now isn't it... the secretary is angry... after briefing, the guys try to find Tyrone, mom have no lead, girlfriends tell nothing... Marty feels awkward, but the bartender after haggling... little lead. Maggie goes and separates... by Lisa, no less. So I guess this is the awkward episode. No one wants to give access... Marty goes deep in to the case... after following to the wilderness... a rave is happening. But maybe the rave is not the main concern... because there's Tyrone. Reggie and bike gang... Iron Crusaders... Marty goes the Maggie's workplace... Marty tries profusely, but the deal has gone too far... Rust has some weapons and a drink... Rust brings the work to break up Maggie... Marty blames but Rust brings the truth... Rust says getting close... Rust shows his gun to Marty and his gruesome story... (leave of absence... pop's leukemia...) Marty apparently needs to live at Rust's place now... Rust steals cocaine from the evidence room... Rust talks to Maggie about the relationship... but it doesn't really pan out. Sting is in operation... he got in and after talking (accent is different...) the coke is deployed and the cook's identity is almost there... it's almost when Marty... goes in but it doesn't give suspicion, it looks like. Almost there and plan is starting to set... they lead the black guy to the dealing place... the heist is not done well... so, Plan B... total miss they bring the ginger all around the town, till Marty shows up... so a crime bust and a major lead... the whole scene is such a beauty of camera-work... all the panning and blocking of the street reminds me of David Fincher...
Saturday, March 15, 2014
March Madness: The Cloud Atlas, Part 3
The thrilling conclusion to the balloon of EXPLOSION!
Chapter 15
Lot of revelation, lot of thoughts and lot of hmm... yeah.
Chapter 16
What is this madness? The stories are confounding me and I don't understand... huh?
Chapter 17
There's a lot to say about this chapter but really it just comes down to what intricate mess this is... all the character and mysticism and... it's messy and beautiful.
Chapter 18
What a mess, this four people act is making me sweat... It's very tense and I like it!
Chapter 19
Sad and interesting ending... I mean what would you do, other than what he did? Everyone was just... out.
Chapter 20
The story has gone haywire and I can't really read it without squinting... hopely this doesn't last long.
Chapter 21
So, Ronnie's dead and Louis went back to Gurley's place and killed himself as well?? I lost track after Lily's journey... much like Louis, it's only a blur...
This book surprised me, like many reviewers. The characters I read was unique and interesting and stories embedded in tapestry was beautiful and masterful. I think Cloud Atlas is going to more coherent than this story... but probably not as magnificent. I don't know. I'll just have to surprised. Next time.
Chapter 15
Lot of revelation, lot of thoughts and lot of hmm... yeah.
Chapter 16
What is this madness? The stories are confounding me and I don't understand... huh?
Chapter 17
There's a lot to say about this chapter but really it just comes down to what intricate mess this is... all the character and mysticism and... it's messy and beautiful.
Chapter 18
What a mess, this four people act is making me sweat... It's very tense and I like it!
Chapter 19
Sad and interesting ending... I mean what would you do, other than what he did? Everyone was just... out.
Chapter 20
The story has gone haywire and I can't really read it without squinting... hopely this doesn't last long.
Chapter 21
So, Ronnie's dead and Louis went back to Gurley's place and killed himself as well?? I lost track after Lily's journey... much like Louis, it's only a blur...
This book surprised me, like many reviewers. The characters I read was unique and interesting and stories embedded in tapestry was beautiful and masterful. I think Cloud Atlas is going to more coherent than this story... but probably not as magnificent. I don't know. I'll just have to surprised. Next time.
Friday, March 14, 2014
March Madness: True Detective, Ep. 3
Recap/Review
So after the discovery of the painting, we move to a very passionate sermon and weird clues. Rust mulling about religions and pity? with little atheist arguments... after questioning the pastor, there's some clues but not much... the wife has more information. Rust is slowly thinking... and inquires Byrd. Rust squrmishes the current detectives. After hearing little horror, no lead. Rust seems convinced of the primitive culture. Wordplay later, detective send notice. Maggie gives some advice to Rust, when Marty comes to home. Marty is very skeptical, typical of someone doing suspicious, and Rust just walks away. Maggie and Marty is concerned about the their child's drawing... looks like red herring. Weird perspective. Maggie is not effective... not that I don't like her or anything. Marty has the Gatsby syndrome... Marty backs down and tries to flounder and... succeeds? Again, I'm not sure what's the effect here... Quickly moving to the case... we move on the advanced interrogation in the 'box' and one confess... Rust starts to pile through the stacks... Rust then tries... dating, I suppose. Am I in the That 70's Show again? Synthesia and cheater cheats... let's gets some cheater cheating out of the way. And the woman goes away... good thing another is turning back... Marty tries jealousy... Thank you, Rust... Nice Gilligan cut... Marty goes for the scare... Rust just stands still. Maggie calls Rust... perhaps for a companion, perhaps getting a companion. Rust finally found a previous case. At the Pelican Island, Marty ask for forgiveness for Rust doesn't give it nor has the capabilities. Old man gives scant clues... so, the guys move to the school. Mowing the empty school seems... symbolic Look at clues converging to Ladeu (?)... Rust ends with a speech about happiness of death Always look for the bright side of death... And we're moving to the slasher territory.
So after the discovery of the painting, we move to a very passionate sermon and weird clues. Rust mulling about religions and pity? with little atheist arguments... after questioning the pastor, there's some clues but not much... the wife has more information. Rust is slowly thinking... and inquires Byrd. Rust squrmishes the current detectives. After hearing little horror, no lead. Rust seems convinced of the primitive culture. Wordplay later, detective send notice. Maggie gives some advice to Rust, when Marty comes to home. Marty is very skeptical, typical of someone doing suspicious, and Rust just walks away. Maggie and Marty is concerned about the their child's drawing... looks like red herring. Weird perspective. Maggie is not effective... not that I don't like her or anything. Marty has the Gatsby syndrome... Marty backs down and tries to flounder and... succeeds? Again, I'm not sure what's the effect here... Quickly moving to the case... we move on the advanced interrogation in the 'box' and one confess... Rust starts to pile through the stacks... Rust then tries... dating, I suppose. Am I in the That 70's Show again? Synthesia and cheater cheats... let's gets some cheater cheating out of the way. And the woman goes away... good thing another is turning back... Marty tries jealousy... Thank you, Rust... Nice Gilligan cut... Marty goes for the scare... Rust just stands still. Maggie calls Rust... perhaps for a companion, perhaps getting a companion. Rust finally found a previous case. At the Pelican Island, Marty ask for forgiveness for Rust doesn't give it nor has the capabilities. Old man gives scant clues... so, the guys move to the school. Mowing the empty school seems... symbolic Look at clues converging to Ladeu (?)... Rust ends with a speech about happiness of death Always look for the bright side of death... And we're moving to the slasher territory.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
March Madness: The Cloud Atlas Part 2
Continuing notes...
Chapter 9
Callahan has nice descriptions, but... how! what! how! It's inconceivable! But it feels so real.
Chapter 10
Each chapter has a nice rise and fall... steadily raising tension and releasing... no, it just keep going up...
Chapter 11
One bad thing: This book is little disjointed, it talks about one thing and delves into another. Also, it's implausible. Also, this is why I love this book. And lastly, I like how Callahan is playing around with the narrative.
Chapter 12
the truth, the horror, the message! What will happen next?
Chapter 13
Well, that was strange.. yet a standard end of second act breakdown. Okay.
Chapter 14
And then we reach the prologue segment. I think it couldn't been done any other way... this way is best for world as a whole... and not because it's a dramatic convenience. No option would have been better.
Chapter 9
Callahan has nice descriptions, but... how! what! how! It's inconceivable! But it feels so real.
Chapter 10
Each chapter has a nice rise and fall... steadily raising tension and releasing... no, it just keep going up...
Chapter 11
One bad thing: This book is little disjointed, it talks about one thing and delves into another. Also, it's implausible. Also, this is why I love this book. And lastly, I like how Callahan is playing around with the narrative.
Chapter 12
the truth, the horror, the message! What will happen next?
Chapter 13
Well, that was strange.. yet a standard end of second act breakdown. Okay.
Chapter 14
And then we reach the prologue segment. I think it couldn't been done any other way... this way is best for world as a whole... and not because it's a dramatic convenience. No option would have been better.
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