update 9/24/13
I finished the series. I liked it. The vocabulary is not advanced, but some of the philosophical concepts are not elementary at all. It was exciting to read, and not written like women (in general) write. There were not 16 pages to describe how things looked and the romance crapola was an integral part of the story but by no means an overwhelming part of the story. Typically American in that it has waaaaay more violence than anything remotley sexual, but being that that is ok for what passes for an educational system here...
Nunya,
ReplyDelete"I'm getting weird in my old age. I see the movies and then read the books."
Mmmm... what's so weird about it? Gee, if YOU are weird cuz of this, then I hate to think what I am, cuz I see the movies and then... I never read the books, lol.
Actually it is not as strange as it may sound; if you think of it, what's more in a book than in a movie? And, more importantly, what is LESS?
A movie's got it all; instead of 3 pages of description to depict a scene/setting, 3 seconds of photography gives you a complete picture. When it comes to emotions, it's even more fucking obvious: instead of 3 paragraphs to describe a person's emotions, 3 seconds of filming someone's facial expressions does it all.
I used to read novels by the hundred. I still have tons of books, mostly historical or semi-historical novels (Jeane Plaidy, Alexandre Dumas, Barbara Tuchman), but I don't think I've opened one for at least 5 years.
The only books I ever read now are cartoons like "Asterix", lol.
Anyway... "hunger games"... what the hell is it about? The 4 billion ppl on this planet who don't have enough to eat to satisfy their hunger? Or the fat fascist sows like Jeanette Lucey who eat like 2000 people?
Hi Nunya,
ReplyDeleteSorry to bombard you with another comment, but I have a kind of question for you. Before I get to the question itself, lemme explain the circumstances first: it's because of an American movie ("Con-Air"), which I had seen several times before in the last few years since it is in my XVID collection on HDDs - some 2000 films, 90% being American.
It is quite a good action film, with Nicolas Cage as the main male character. Cage is an outstanding actor in my opinion, and incredibly versatile one; for instance, the film "Leaving Las Vegas" in which he acts as a terminally ill alcoholic (and "terminally" IS the term since he actually drinks himself to death in that movie), is one of the most poignant movies I have ever seen.
Anyway, back to "Con-Air". In case you haven't seen it, he plays the role of a discharged military dude (marine or dog knows what else, I forget - and it's not important).
He comes "home" - home being a bar in one of the retarded US states (Alabama or one of those), bar in which his gorgeous-looking wife works as a bartender.
He gets into an argument with one of the retarded ex-military morons who spend all their time at the bar getting sloshed and losing the 2 or 3 brain cells remaining in their military brains.
Next, he and his wife leave the bar to go home and celebrate their long awaited reunion. However, in the car park, under pouring rain, 3 or 4 or those ex-military fuckheads are there, waiting for him, and intent on killing him and raping her.
Because he's fresh off the "funny farm" (meaning his military camp), he's extremely fit (physically), and since he's not pissed as a parrot like his assailants, he fights them off and knocks them down in a flash - like Stiletto would, lol.
However, one of them pulls out a huge knife, and somehow, during the fight, ends up dead.
Next:
Cameron Pole (that's Nicolas Cage's stage name in the film) finds himself in a military court, charged with 1st degree murder and, just like in Monopoly, gets the card that says "do NOT collect 200 dollars, and go straight to prison for 10 years"
The "best" part:
The miltary court rendering the verdict "explains" (HAHAHA!) the harshness of the sentence by the fact that he (Cameron), "having military training, is NOT subject to the same laws as ordinary citizens".
Ok. Cute. Sweet. Let me fall on my ass of the 10th time today, and see if I get this right:
1) in USA, an ex-military person, charged with a assault offense while being an ordinary citizen, gets judged and sentenced by a MILITARY COURT???????
Wow!!!! And we ppl in Europe thought that Iran, Uganda, Sth Africa and Israel were scary places dating from 4000 BC!
Not only that, but the military court has the legal power (OVER the legal power of the constitution and international law) to summarily sentence someone to 10 years??? No appeal, no recourse???? I can see why you guys have places like Guantanamo - which would be illgeal (and in truth don't exist) in ANY other western country.
Wow, I lived in Oz for 24 years and saw millions of kangaroos, but at least I never saw any of them running the Australian court system! Who's running the US court and justice system? Armadillos or beavers? Coyotes? Racoons?
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I had more to say but super-lame "Blogger/Blogspot" told me my comment was too long. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteSo here is the rest:
2) A person armed without any weapon is assaulted by a bunch of thugs intent on killing him and raping his wife - one of them armed with a huge knife - and that person is NOT supposed to defend himself (nor his wife) but quietly kick the bucket while the psychopaths rape his wife after having killed him????
Fuck me dead, as we say in Oz land. Lafayette must be jumping around in his tomb: what was the point of writing a constitution especially dedicated to this "new" world called America, full of promises of freedom and fairness, if it was to end up worse than the worst dictatorships of the last 4000 years?
Anyway... I thought, you, as the wife of an ex-US-military retarded moron, would be the best placed person to shed some light on this astonishing puzzle.
Please my friend, enlighten me...
Hugs :-)
PS: I'm still hoping to come see that cheetah of yours some day. Deidra's quite keen too...