Book Meme - Day 16
Aug. 25th, 2010 12:48 pm* I don't know why I hadn't seen Hot Fuzz before. I'm not one to watch buddy cop movies, but this one is just amazing. It's funny and dramatic and the climax was just freaking brilliant. Enough to even warrant the extra html to the very least. :D
Now I want to watch Shaun of the Dead again. XD; But I promised![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kalligeneia I'd see The Silence of the Hams first, and I haven't finished watching the second season of Pushing Daisies. And there are a few other things in that queue.
* I got the Dead After Dark audiobook and I finished listening to chapter 3 a while ago. I don't have much contact with Southern American English, so it's a good listening exercise. I'm understanding practically everything. \o/
Also, this is so anti-Twilight it's not funny. No, wait, it is! Starting with the fact that the prose doesn't want me to take my eyes out--although that could be said about most printed fiction. :x
Other than that, so many details in this book are the exact opposite of Twilight: Dead After Dark happens in the south; Bill has a "faint glow" only Sookie can see; Sookie is the one who can read minds andI don't want to strangle her she rescues Bill first from danger; Bill is sympathetic and I don't want to strangle him tender and sweet and at the same time, Sookie and the reader are reminded constantly of how dangerous and terrifying he actually is.
So far, I'm liking it. 8D
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Again, having to decide just one drop from a very vast ocean. /o\ But I tolddanly I would give an answer this time, and here it is.
CORRESPONDANCES
Charles Baudelaire
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarité,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
--Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transport de l'esprit et des sens.
( The rest of the questions/prompts )
Now I want to watch Shaun of the Dead again. XD; But I promised
kalligeneia I'd see The Silence of the Hams first, and I haven't finished watching the second season of Pushing Daisies. And there are a few other things in that queue.* I got the Dead After Dark audiobook and I finished listening to chapter 3 a while ago. I don't have much contact with Southern American English, so it's a good listening exercise. I'm understanding practically everything. \o/
Also, this is so anti-Twilight it's not funny. No, wait, it is! Starting with the fact that the prose doesn't want me to take my eyes out--although that could be said about most printed fiction. :x
Other than that, so many details in this book are the exact opposite of Twilight: Dead After Dark happens in the south; Bill has a "faint glow" only Sookie can see; Sookie is the one who can read minds and
So far, I'm liking it. 8D
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Again, having to decide just one drop from a very vast ocean. /o\ But I told
danly I would give an answer this time, and here it is.CORRESPONDANCES
Charles Baudelaire
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarité,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
--Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transport de l'esprit et des sens.
( The rest of the questions/prompts )
