A brief note for future updates
Feb. 22nd, 2009 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73I have stuff that I want to write up in some serious detail, but I am way too busy to do so right now. (And I've had other writing I have done/need to do: a brief reflection on a Biblical text for our church's Lenten meditation book, and something-or-other for a memory book that one of my paternal aunts is putting together for the other one, who turns 70 next month.) So I'll just note here, in very brief form, the main points that I wish to make.
1. Coraline the movie was really really good. Coraline the book was also really really good. The movie did some things differently from the book, but they all work surprisingly well (including the generation of an entirely new character). But because there are some things in the book that didn't get into the movie (including my very favorite scene which, admittedly, would have been difficult to film), you should read the book as well as see the movie.
2. Sweeney Todd had his beginnings in a penny-dreadful serial called The String of Pearls that was recently recorded at Librivox and which we just finished listening to today. The story is essentially a mystery - what's happening to the customers who enter Todd's barbershop and are never seen again? The modern reader likely knows the answer already, of course, but that doesn't stop the original tale from being interesting, mildy horrifying, humorous (intentionally or otherwise, sometimes it's hard to tell), and at times even pretty well-written. This recording is a collaborative effort, and there's a wide variety of styles and abilities of readers ranging from folks for whom English is not their first language to professionals. The catalog page is linked above.
1. Coraline the movie was really really good. Coraline the book was also really really good. The movie did some things differently from the book, but they all work surprisingly well (including the generation of an entirely new character). But because there are some things in the book that didn't get into the movie (including my very favorite scene which, admittedly, would have been difficult to film), you should read the book as well as see the movie.
2. Sweeney Todd had his beginnings in a penny-dreadful serial called The String of Pearls that was recently recorded at Librivox and which we just finished listening to today. The story is essentially a mystery - what's happening to the customers who enter Todd's barbershop and are never seen again? The modern reader likely knows the answer already, of course, but that doesn't stop the original tale from being interesting, mildy horrifying, humorous (intentionally or otherwise, sometimes it's hard to tell), and at times even pretty well-written. This recording is a collaborative effort, and there's a wide variety of styles and abilities of readers ranging from folks for whom English is not their first language to professionals. The catalog page is linked above.
