Hurraaaaaaaah!
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-book-of-orm/a-j-dalton/9781909845770
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Adam
Wow. A great film. No wonder it’s nominated for so many Oscars. It’s all filmed in one take, which makes it a compelling real-time experience. At the same time, the nature of the ‘real’ is seriously challenged, as the backing-track’s drummer appears in a number of scenes, it’s not clear where the theatre play within the film starts and finishes (on-stage v backstage), and fantastical special effects intrude (many of which may or may not be in the main character’s mind). Michael Keaton, as the lead, represents a fantastic piece of casting, as we watch this story of a once successful Hollywood star becoming old while trying to hold on to fame and relevance. The brash Ed Norton is in a brilliant supporting role, and constantly/competitively keeps threatening (literally) to ‘steal the show’. Definitely recommended. 9 out of 10 from me.
Who would have thunk it? According to Waterstones, sales of physical books are up, while sales of Kindles are close to non-existent. Strange (if not curious) indeed!
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/paper-books-bounce-back-as-ebook-readers-slump-153143184.html#89eOUJv
Okay, so we were in the pub last night, to celebrate the first day back at work, but look what we did:
Watched some of the Penny Dreadful series over xmas, the show named after the lurid pulp fiction of the Victorian era. It really is very good indeed. The basic premise is that the daughter of a well-to-do Victorian gentleman (played admirably well by Timothy Dalton) is stolen away to the demi-monde (the half world between this world and the next) and he must assemble a team to rescue her. He gathers to him a medium (the gravelly-voiced Eva Green), a Western gunslinger (Josh Hartnett), a doctor (Frankenstein!) and a mysterious man-servant.
There are monsters and myth aplenty in this very gothic and graphic series. There’s a decent story arc, as well as the storylines of each character. It cleverly mixes history and popular fiction to make us question what is real. The special effects and the acting are superb. It makes you yearn to be there with the rest of the cast. And the second series is all but finished too, so it’s not gonna get cut too prematurely. Hurrah! Any niggles? Only that Billie Piper’s faux Irish accent is so bad it’s unintelligible. But it doesn’t prevent this series being one of the freshest and most intriguing of 2014. 8.5 out of 10 from me!
Hurrah! Finished my new book this very today and sent it to the lovely publisher Kristell Ink. The book will be out in Waterstones, on Amazon, blah blah, in April 2015. So pleased – it was creatively liberating to do this collection, really it was. If you want more details, you can just click ‘Book of Orm’ in the nav bar on my site.
In other news, I still have a lousy cold. Still it’s almost a xmas tradition, eh?
