Aussie TV heads up
Sep. 5th, 2005 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeIan McKellen's utterly fabulous (although not like that) adaptation of Richard III is on this Saturday, Channel 7, 11.40. Even if everything else in this movie was shit, Ian would be reason enough to see it.
Also, there's a former Grand Dragon of the KKK on Denton tonight, which should be interesting.
Read Marathon Man the other day, and wow, William Goldman cannot put a foot wrong. The way he writes in this book, sentences barrelling on like a horse doing steeplechase, it really stuck a chord, it's like how words fall out of my brain except put together with, you know, skill; and then there's that gorgeously tight third person POV that's also omniscient with a distinct narrative persona. How the hell does he do that? I loved the story and I totally did not pick any of the important twists (JANEWAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!). I knew this guy had a magnificent wit (Princess Bride is one of the funniest things ever and Butch Cassidy is way funnier than people give it credit for being. Maverick? Cracks me the hell up and is possibly Gibson's best movie. But anyway.) but I wasn't expecting something so exciting and scary and genuinely horrifying (torture scenes OMG!). I haven't really enjoyed a book on such a gut level for a while. I must see the movie now.
Also, there's a former Grand Dragon of the KKK on Denton tonight, which should be interesting.
Read Marathon Man the other day, and wow, William Goldman cannot put a foot wrong. The way he writes in this book, sentences barrelling on like a horse doing steeplechase, it really stuck a chord, it's like how words fall out of my brain except put together with, you know, skill; and then there's that gorgeously tight third person POV that's also omniscient with a distinct narrative persona. How the hell does he do that? I loved the story and I totally did not pick any of the important twists (JANEWAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!). I knew this guy had a magnificent wit (Princess Bride is one of the funniest things ever and Butch Cassidy is way funnier than people give it credit for being. Maverick? Cracks me the hell up and is possibly Gibson's best movie. But anyway.) but I wasn't expecting something so exciting and scary and genuinely horrifying (torture scenes OMG!). I haven't really enjoyed a book on such a gut level for a while. I must see the movie now.
