7 posts tagged “ben barnes”
This morning I read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and I'm more or less on the fence about it. I didn't think it was crap, but I don't think I can say that I loved it. I didn't like the writing style too much. Too much internal monologue and not enough dialogue. It made me feel like nothing was happening. It will be interesting to see how they play it out in the movie. And I agree with Susie and Belle, Michael Cera is not a good Nick. I wish it were Ben Barnes. I haven't had a good Ben Barnes post in months.
I'm having a breakdown over City of Ashes and I am so obsessed it's not even amusing. Last night I went back to The Mortal Instruments website and I read the excerpt for City of Glass in hopes of trying to make myself feel a little better, which it did a little, in some ways. The thing is I am a bottle of overflowing anxiety because I just don't know what will happen next. The excerpt put to rest just the fact that she wasn't unwriting the past that she's made at the end of City of Ashes. Which was my main fear. But I need to reread the books. I need more of them. D is reading City of Bones now. So when he finishes it I can start. It's a very compelling story and Jace is such a hero! I am so totally in love with him. I also think I will have to talk about it in therapy.
Robert Pattinson will be in the new issue of Interview magazine. The picture to the right is from it so you can see how pretty he will be in it. I also found the two other
Italian posters. I will gladly trade Italy their's for ours. It's not even that long to the movie. Hopefully time will pass as quickly for the City of Glass release as it has for Twilight. Of course it doesn't hurt that Twilight got nudged up a few weeks by the powers that be. And I'm glad the The Mortal Instruments doesn't have a movie deal because I already went through this mindless obsessiveness with Twilight and the pointy feelings I'm already having for the books of TMI is enough. I don't need more things to lose my ever loving mind to.
Today is a therapy day and I am listening to my playlist and I should be getting ready. I'm going to be late but since I don't think I'm going to eat today it shouldn't be a problem. Although the bus will still be ugly. I have a few things to talk about. The main one is this general back slide I'm doing. D has even taken notice of it. I mean I'm not doing bad. Just all the sudden I've started losing ground. No more progress. Maybe that is natural. We can't always move forward. Only sharks keep moving and I'm more of feline. And with that I should really be going.
Today is a therapy day and I am listening to my playlist and I should be getting ready. I'm going to be late but since I don't think I'm going to eat today it shouldn't be a problem. Although the bus will still be ugly. I have a few things to talk about. The main one is this general back slide I'm doing. D has even taken notice of it. I mean I'm not doing bad. Just all the sudden I've started losing ground. No more progress. Maybe that is natural. We can't always move forward. Only sharks keep moving and I'm more of feline. And with that I should really be going.
I have a problem getting up in the morning. More so than a normal person. I just can't function in the morning, nothing wakes me up and really thing for the hell I feel is more sleep. Knowing this I drugged myself at 8pm so that I could get up at 8am on Sunday morning. And it worked. I got up and we picked up Belle and went up to Universal Citywalk. Unfortunately, there was a fire in the backlot and the entire place was shut down and we didn't have a clue as to where we were going. Belle found her friends and we did an excursion through Citywalk looking for where we might go to line up for entry to the bleachers. I had my book and I didn't care about the details. I was a bit anxious about things and it was nice to sit and ignore the world with my book. The day wore on and more people showed up, banners in hand, and we all lined up in front of the ampitheater entrance. Hours went by. The sun moved across the sky. Finally someone came over and was asking us about who we were and what we were doing and we told them and they were like 'what?'. Apparently the Twilight Lexicon never spoke to anyone before getting their information and told people to go out, when MTV uses a casted audience. They are now blaming it on the fire. It wasn't a big deal though, well not for me, I just went home and watched the awards on the TV.
I scoured the internet last night and this morning and found tons of pictures of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. KStew looked really pretty, and it hurts me to say that because I really do think I lean hard on the not liking her. They showed the sneak-peek clip of a finished scene of Twilight. It was just what I thought it would be. I think I've seen it before in the MTV Behind the Scenes. So, maybe, I was a little disappointed. I'm not as disappointed as some of the blog writers who, I've read today, saying it's the worst action sequence they've seen and that it's TV-styled stunts. I'm not having a quarrel with the content, just the fact that I would rather something other. I don't know if I'm sold on Cam Gigandet either. I guess we will see how it all comes together.
The awards were interesting in a really boring way. I think I was only excited for the Johnny Depp parts. The man is just beautiful. It makes me wish Jump Street were on DVD. I would have hours of him to watch then. I asked David to grow his hair out like Johnny's. I really wish I could have been there to see him. I think next year we will just buy the tickets and go to the actual event. Not that that will help me see Johnny Depp but it will definitely make things easier all the way around.
They didn't show anything really that was terribly funny, with the exception being the Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. Skit for their new movie. I hated all the Adam Sandler stuff, Tom Cruise is a whore. The Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman nominee announcement was just tedious and same went for the Get Smart one. Maybe I shouldn't go next year if this is how I feel.
So the day was a bit of a bust, but I wasn't as disappointed as I really could have been. I would like to have seen Ben Barnes, he looked really good on the carpet pictures and his interview with Christian from Project Runway. Yummy. I haven't been able to find many to snag though.
Now onto the book. Oh my god it nearly destroyed me this morning. I loved it, but the ending left my romantic heart aching. I am talking about Ink Exchange . Great book, I wish Melissa Marr didn't make me feel like such a jerk for not liking the main character. She's a really strong female character and she is so rare in most of the books that I read. I didn't like her from the previous book and then I started liking her in this one and she goes through this terrible trial and she makes these choices, which in all rights are the right ones. Just I wanted her to do the impossible and it doesn't happen. It's probably one of the most realistic, healthy fantasy books. YA books. Books full-stop. My favorite character is Niall and I thought his path was pretty predictable, which should have told me how the book was going to end but I'm so stubborn. He's really fleshed out in this book, introduced in Wicked Lovely though, and he is clearly this tragic character. Someone really damned by his nature and his honor where Leslie is concerned. Easily the most seductive character of the Faerie-verse. His outcome, like Donia's is really the only course for him. But DAMMIT I wanted more for him. And then there was Irial who just about gave me an ulcer, but in the end I didn't hate him so much as I felt very compassionate towards him. I went kicking and screaming though. I have plans to reread my favorite parts before I go tonight.
Tonight is the book signing for Melissa Marr and I am hoping she talks a little about upcoming books. I would love for her to be coming out with another book in the nearish future. Although that won't be true, but I can lie to myself and think those thoughts. I am hoping, greedy-like, that not a lot of people will show, so that I can talk to her. We will have to wait and see how these things go.
So the day was a bit of a bust, but I wasn't as disappointed as I really could have been. I would like to have seen Ben Barnes, he looked really good on the carpet pictures and his interview with Christian from Project Runway. Yummy. I haven't been able to find many to snag though.
Now onto the book. Oh my god it nearly destroyed me this morning. I loved it, but the ending left my romantic heart aching. I am talking about Ink Exchange . Great book, I wish Melissa Marr didn't make me feel like such a jerk for not liking the main character. She's a really strong female character and she is so rare in most of the books that I read. I didn't like her from the previous book and then I started liking her in this one and she goes through this terrible trial and she makes these choices, which in all rights are the right ones. Just I wanted her to do the impossible and it doesn't happen. It's probably one of the most realistic, healthy fantasy books. YA books. Books full-stop. My favorite character is Niall and I thought his path was pretty predictable, which should have told me how the book was going to end but I'm so stubborn. He's really fleshed out in this book, introduced in Wicked Lovely though, and he is clearly this tragic character. Someone really damned by his nature and his honor where Leslie is concerned. Easily the most seductive character of the Faerie-verse. His outcome, like Donia's is really the only course for him. But DAMMIT I wanted more for him. And then there was Irial who just about gave me an ulcer, but in the end I didn't hate him so much as I felt very compassionate towards him. I went kicking and screaming though. I have plans to reread my favorite parts before I go tonight.
Tonight is the book signing for Melissa Marr and I am hoping she talks a little about upcoming books. I would love for her to be coming out with another book in the nearish future. Although that won't be true, but I can lie to myself and think those thoughts. I am hoping, greedy-like, that not a lot of people will show, so that I can talk to her. We will have to wait and see how these things go.
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I think that the next book I read will be The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint. I have wanted to read this book for about two years, it found it through BookMooch, although it was never available. It's a little punk rock and it might be nice to leave the land of the squeaky clean Twilight Saga for something more my style. Well I guess I have been doing that with the Melissa Marr books, which have me thinking of repiercing my lip. Now I want to read Wicked Lovely again and immerse myself into some Seth. Back to the thought I was having though... The story is about a girl who wants to change herself and I can get behind that. And it will be fun to read a story about a girl, written from a man's perspective. I know the author is good when they can sell me on the other sex. Let's face it, most women do not portray men realistically. They really make fantastic beings and that isn't really the best character portrayal. I hope this book doesn't disappoint. I hope that I can get out of The Host and Wicked Lovely enough to read another book.
Mental note: Look for Tantalize tonight at Vroman's.
Mental note: Look for Tantalize tonight at Vroman's.
Tonight I went out with the girls, Susan and Belle. I haven't been out with them both since the BE Blowout, and that is saying something. We went to the 101 Coffee Shop, where we failed to see Spunk Ransom and then went to the Arclight to see Iron Man. I know, I know, I have already seen it, but it was good enough to watch a second time and better in my opinion than seeing Sex in the City. Which might I add had all these women dressed up to go and see it. No one better make fun of Harry Potter fans or Twilight fans ever again. Back to the movie, I have to say that this time around I paid more attention to Robert Downey Jr.'s delivery and the man sold it. His lines are flawless. I love his disaffected cavalier attitude. And still, Dummy the robot is my favorite part of the movie. I laugh so hard that I cry when Tony is having him be on fire patrol. *sigh* Good times. I really liked being out with Susie and Belle. I think I was overly excited and ran on at the mouth some. The perks of me going out in the evening rather than the morning when I first get up. I am a lot more awake and I chatter in anxiety.
This week I quit school. I felt a load better when I made the decision not to go. I know it's not following through and being responsible, but I was so tired of pretending. I just couldn't try anymore. Of course I spent the whole week in bed feeling like a loser but it seems that we can't win all the battles.
Tomorrow I am going to the bookstore so I am pretty happy. I know the books that I want to get and I am hoping that they will be at Barnes and Noble. I want Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and I might get Eclipse SE but I'm leaning toward another book now. I don't know. So many books and so little time. Right now I am reading Sword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson. I didn't like it so much in the beginning but it's started to grow on me. Tiger is sort of hard to like in the start and the book is told from his perspective. It seemed like nothing was happening for a really long time and then all the sudden every time you turned around they were in some new stew. I like the love interest Del, she's a really strong character. Sometimes a little stupid too but not as much as most modern books make the characters so that is a nice thing. I should be done with the book whenever I have an hour to sit down, undistracted. I already BookMooched the next one and there are 5 books total in the series. I must not be hating it too much to wonder what happens next. Of course my hopes ride on devouring Ink Exchange as quickly as possible this weekend. And I am looking forward to going to Melissa Marr's book signing in Pasadena on Monday. I want to get both books signed. I'd love to have Ink Exchange read by then so I can ask her questions about the next one. I want a lot more Seth and Aislinn. Although Irial intrigues me.
Sunday will be the MTV Movie Awards and Susan, Belle, David and I will be there bright and early, despite my inability to do early, to get places in the bleachers for the red carpet. I want to see Rob Pattinson and Belle got me hoping that Ben Barnes might be there too. Johnny Depp is supposed to walk the red carpet and I want a picture of him in the worst way. Sunday scares me to death though. I just don't know if I am built for this kind of event. Anxiety isn't kind to me and this is the sort of stress that I generally hide away from. But I will, somehow, wake up at 8:30 in the morning and I will make it through the day and I will take pictures galore of the red carpet and after the event I will have proved to myself that I can do this sort of thing and I will have emotional growth to show for it. mmmmmmm Rob Pattinson, Johnny Depp, Ben Barnes.
This week I quit school. I felt a load better when I made the decision not to go. I know it's not following through and being responsible, but I was so tired of pretending. I just couldn't try anymore. Of course I spent the whole week in bed feeling like a loser but it seems that we can't win all the battles.
Tomorrow I am going to the bookstore so I am pretty happy. I know the books that I want to get and I am hoping that they will be at Barnes and Noble. I want Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and I might get Eclipse SE but I'm leaning toward another book now. I don't know. So many books and so little time. Right now I am reading Sword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson. I didn't like it so much in the beginning but it's started to grow on me. Tiger is sort of hard to like in the start and the book is told from his perspective. It seemed like nothing was happening for a really long time and then all the sudden every time you turned around they were in some new stew. I like the love interest Del, she's a really strong character. Sometimes a little stupid too but not as much as most modern books make the characters so that is a nice thing. I should be done with the book whenever I have an hour to sit down, undistracted. I already BookMooched the next one and there are 5 books total in the series. I must not be hating it too much to wonder what happens next. Of course my hopes ride on devouring Ink Exchange as quickly as possible this weekend. And I am looking forward to going to Melissa Marr's book signing in Pasadena on Monday. I want to get both books signed. I'd love to have Ink Exchange read by then so I can ask her questions about the next one. I want a lot more Seth and Aislinn. Although Irial intrigues me.
Sunday will be the MTV Movie Awards and Susan, Belle, David and I will be there bright and early, despite my inability to do early, to get places in the bleachers for the red carpet. I want to see Rob Pattinson and Belle got me hoping that Ben Barnes might be there too. Johnny Depp is supposed to walk the red carpet and I want a picture of him in the worst way. Sunday scares me to death though. I just don't know if I am built for this kind of event. Anxiety isn't kind to me and this is the sort of stress that I generally hide away from. But I will, somehow, wake up at 8:30 in the morning and I will make it through the day and I will take pictures galore of the red carpet and after the event I will have proved to myself that I can do this sort of thing and I will have emotional growth to show for it. mmmmmmm Rob Pattinson, Johnny Depp, Ben Barnes.
Today I got to read Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr and I don't really know how I feel about it. I want to get the next book, Ink Exchange, so I apparently liked it to some degree. I didn't mind Aislinn, the main character. Finally a female who isn't overly stupid or self sacrificing, so that was nice. I loved Seth who is the best friend and love interest. I could definitely take a guy like him. Keenan was interesting. I spent the majority of the book cringing when he was mentioned, but he's not like that. I think I just was worried about the situation. I know Belle loved Donia, and I didn't mind her but I found her rather flat. I think Donia plays best with Keenan. At least there is something there that is believable during those interactions. The book was a quick read, I read it in one day. I am really interested in getting Ink Exchange now because I want to read more about Ash and Seth. The book didn't give me a satisfactory ending for them.
Before I read Wicked Lovely I was rereading The Host again and I loved it as much on the second read as I did on the first. I read all the signing questions on Twilight Lexicon and I am really excited about the prospect that this could be a trilogy. I really am hoping that it is. I know Stephenie Meyer is taking next year off to write and I hope she gets the urge to revisit Wanderer.
I got the 1st chapter of Breaking Dawn the other day. Belle found it had been leaked on the internet. I was really excited to read it but it made me immediately aware of the fact that Bella drives me nuts. She waffles and wars over the silliest of things. Edward apparently buys her a new car, a Mercedes Guardian, because the truck dies and she is embarrassed by it. She's not embarrassed to ride in a truck that no doubt kills emissions standards but a nice car is too much for her. And she is still belaboring the getting married thing when she is the one who insisted on it after Edward tells her that he rescinded his demands. The girl is marrying Edward Cullen, her dream guy, you think she could pull it together and be happy about it. The first chapter just made me want to devour the whole book. I don't know really if I can make it the 65 days until it comes out. I guess I can reread my Twilight Saga and The Host and pretend that time is passing more quickly.
Today, well yesterday I guess, was Twilight Tuesday and I actually wasn't disappointed in the article this week. I thought it was a nice little grab bag of some really dorky questions. I especially loved the RPattz one. I think I could call the guy Spunk Ransom. Although D thinks it sounds like a porn star name. I think we are going to go to the red carpet for the MTV awards on Sunday. It should be interesting to see what can be seen. I hope that we do see Rob there. Kristen I could take or leave. I was talking to D and I can't even really name that many good movies from the last year. Stardust should win something though. Just so Ben Barnes could maybe get some love. I realize Charlie Cox is the star but Ben is cuter.
Before I read Wicked Lovely I was rereading The Host again and I loved it as much on the second read as I did on the first. I read all the signing questions on Twilight Lexicon and I am really excited about the prospect that this could be a trilogy. I really am hoping that it is. I know Stephenie Meyer is taking next year off to write and I hope she gets the urge to revisit Wanderer.
Today, well yesterday I guess, was Twilight Tuesday and I actually wasn't disappointed in the article this week. I thought it was a nice little grab bag of some really dorky questions. I especially loved the RPattz one. I think I could call the guy Spunk Ransom. Although D thinks it sounds like a porn star name. I think we are going to go to the red carpet for the MTV awards on Sunday. It should be interesting to see what can be seen. I hope that we do see Rob there. Kristen I could take or leave. I was talking to D and I can't even really name that many good movies from the last year. Stardust should win something though. Just so Ben Barnes could maybe get some love. I realize Charlie Cox is the star but Ben is cuter.
I went to see Prince Caspian tonight and I don't know where to start. I guess I'll begin with the story. It was so badly adapted and the story was so horribly chopped up and regurgitated that it came across to me like bad fanfic. I didn't love the book by any means but it at least was cohesive. Watching the movie you didn't know why anything was happening and they removed all of the background story for the characters out so you didn't understand anyone's motivation beyond the bare knuckles. And then, beyond the sad script, was the rather unenthused acting. Ben-I-am-hott-Barnes couldn't manage to keep his accent and that made me want to cry. The Pevensie's are just an ugly bunch of kids and they introduce a romance between Susan and Prince Caspian. Please. Please, take that part back. I am rather ambivalent about the whole experience but that love story makes me really mad. I don't care about my $12.50, I don't care that it was 2.5 hours. I think in no time it will wash from my memory completely, like the first movie. But I implore you to read the book rather than wasting the time on the film. The effects aren't that mind blowing.
I am about 250 pages from the end of A Sweet Far Thing and I really hate Libba Bray. There is just no way that good things can really come from the mess she has unveiled. I had hopes for this book, that it would have a great deal more of Kartik in it, but I think it's even less than Rebel Angels. I love some of the scenes she has with Gemma and Kartik, but she marks them all with an awful exclamation point. Since I spoiled myself concerning the end with Kartik I can't say that she is particularly good to him in this book and that makes me really sad. I wish Ann and Felicity were left behind in the realms. They are really annoying. I actually am annoyed with 90% of what Gemma does and I don't know how it is that I claim this trilogy as something I like. But I would read it again. I would love to get it on audiobook so D can listen to it.
Nothing has been going on in the Twilight fandom since Wednesday. It makes me antsy when nothing is happening. I need the constant influx of information or I feel like it's being forgotten. But it is the weekend now and Tuesday will be Twilight Tuesday. Then after that will be the book signing on Thursday. Although I know that will be more Host related, but somebody, maybe me, will ask a Twilight question. I have to think hard and come up with something never asked before. I think I'm formulating one right now.
I bought two new books today. I will have to read The Host before Thursday, so it will be a few days until I get around to reading them. One is The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint and the other is Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Both are YA books but I don't think that means anything at all. I hope it doesn't anyway. I also have plans of reading a book D has been wanting me to read forever called Sword Dancer by Jennifer Roberson. That is a pretty good reading pile.
I am about 250 pages from the end of A Sweet Far Thing and I really hate Libba Bray. There is just no way that good things can really come from the mess she has unveiled. I had hopes for this book, that it would have a great deal more of Kartik in it, but I think it's even less than Rebel Angels. I love some of the scenes she has with Gemma and Kartik, but she marks them all with an awful exclamation point. Since I spoiled myself concerning the end with Kartik I can't say that she is particularly good to him in this book and that makes me really sad. I wish Ann and Felicity were left behind in the realms. They are really annoying. I actually am annoyed with 90% of what Gemma does and I don't know how it is that I claim this trilogy as something I like. But I would read it again. I would love to get it on audiobook so D can listen to it.
I bought two new books today. I will have to read The Host before Thursday, so it will be a few days until I get around to reading them. One is The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint and the other is Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Both are YA books but I don't think that means anything at all. I hope it doesn't anyway. I also have plans of reading a book D has been wanting me to read forever called Sword Dancer by Jennifer Roberson. That is a pretty good reading pile.
In the past 24 hours I have watched a ton of things. So much that I should be tapped for the rest of the week. Belle was over last night and we started watching Ring of the Nibelungs which was just poor. Funny, but poor. Robert Pattinson was good as the guy who stood in the background. We laughed out loud at it and I have to say that the effects were certainly worthy of note... No lizard could be that vicious and live.
After that we watched Stardust again as Belle had never seen it. I was excited to share Ben Barnes with her. I am trying to cultivate an obsession for him and it is only lukewarm and lending more toward admiration than fascination. But I did find a few pictures of him so I had to decorate this post in one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was next and I think the consensus was that Johnny Depp is a god.
Today, we watched The Bad Mother's Handbook. Another Robert Pattinson show. He was utterly adorable in this. I really liked his character and I hope that David will watch with me sometimes. I can honestly say that he was the best actor out of all of the cast.
After that we watched Stardust again as Belle had never seen it. I was excited to share Ben Barnes with her. I am trying to cultivate an obsession for him and it is only lukewarm and lending more toward admiration than fascination. But I did find a few pictures of him so I had to decorate this post in one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was next and I think the consensus was that Johnny Depp is a god.
Today, we watched The Bad Mother's Handbook. Another Robert Pattinson show. He was utterly adorable in this. I really liked his character and I hope that David will watch with me sometimes. I can honestly say that he was the best actor out of all of the cast.
Tonight after we took Belle home we watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I am trying to get all refreshed before the new movie comes out. I don't have much expectation for the new one. I totally think Harrison Ford is too old to pull of Indy and Shia LaBouf isn't going to be able to distract me from Ford taking his Geritol. But I plan to rewatch all the old ones and they were really good even though they were formulaic and cheesy.
I got set straight by Belle that A Great and Terrible Beauty is being made into a movie. So my dream is someone else's dream too. The script is supposedly been bought by Mel Gibson's production company and that worries me to death, but, okay. There is much talk about who should play who but I know some of the suggestions confound me. No Kiera Knightley. I have managed to read 100 pages into A Sweet Far Thing and I am distraught for the lack of Kartik. It makes the first part of the book worthless to have him absent. If he doesn't show up soon I might start on the last page and read backward.
Lastly is a little comic of the Twilight movie that made me smile. Today was Twilight Tuesday and MTV had an article talking about the plan to shoot the sequels together should the movie see enough of a turn out in the theaters. It pretty much said what has already been said and I was looking for more concrete things than what-could-bes and might-bes. The other thing was a little clip on Peter Facinelli and Carlisle's car. What happened to interviews? I want more of what I was getting during filming.
Yesterday afternoon I finally finished Stardust the book. I loved the ending. I got over my annoyance with Yvaine and I loved the subtle way things played out. I thought the book was really good. Then last night I watched the movie, which is a lovely thing unto itself... maybe brilliant if you hadn't read the book. I didn't like the adaptation of the end of the book. I could have done without the big showdown that is in the movie. Give me the book's bittersweet ending over the movie's rather diabetically induced sugarfest. But I did like the movie, so long as I thought of it as something entirely separate from the book. I only pray, I won't be saying that same line when Twilight comes out.
I did like Ben Barnes as the hapless young Dunstan Thorn. I think the boy is very pretty and I am just a sucker for the pretty. I also liked Claire Danes as Yvaine. I loved Charlie Cox in Casanova and I thought he was perfect for Tristran/Tristan. I did not like Kate Magowan as the Slave Girl/Una. I thought she was a bit odd for the part. I pictured someone tinier, more agile and pixie-like. I also imagined the fair Victoria as a lot better looking than Sienna Miller. I did love Mark Strong as Septimus. He's still my second favorite character of the book. And De Niro as Captain Shakespeare was entertaining, even if they built that character entirely for the movie and he is not the man he was in the book. Oh and I didn't like Michelle Pfieffer at all. I thought she was just cheap compared to the rest.
Back to Ben Barnes, I also finished Prince Caspian. It was a quick and sometimes pedantic read. The voice that the entire book is written in is so obviously masculine that sometimes it feels rather cardboard. I don't know how to actually describe it. It's just a shallowness. Like if a male is telling a story where you aren't really described the situation, but you are getting a summation. I am looking forward to the movie at the end of the week. I am hoping that I find this more memorable than The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe movie. I just can't say that I recall a whole lot of what actually happens in the first. This is the bane of being un-fan-like about something.
I am hemming and hawing now, whether to read The Host or A Sweet Far Thing. I have missed Kartik this last week without him. I even found Gemma Doyle fanfic and I couldn't read it without spoiling myself. Of course, because it is my way, I did manage to spoil myself some anyway. It's not as bad as last time where my nosiness spoiled me for the end of Rebel Angel's. This is more of a 'and after everything that happens, this happens' thing. I will stop talking about before I write it out and spoil Belle. So I guess I just made my decision. I will be reading, A Sweet Far Thing next. I wouldn't be sad if that got made into a movie. I don't have a clue as to who would play Gemma or Kartik. I would love for Kate Winslet to play Miss Moore. I don't know who I would have play Gemma's mother or father. Could I pick Charlie Cox to play Thomas though? And Pippa, Felicity and Ann... *sigh*. Too hard. I have one person cast in my version of A Great and Terrible Beauty. I will have to keep it a work in progress.
Tonight, Belle is coming over for us to watch the Ring of the Nibelung
or otherwise known as... Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. It has Benno
Furmann and Robert Pattinson in it. Benno Furmann played Inspector
Detector in Speed Racer. We rented it to see Rob. We aren't hoping for a lot from it. It is a made for TV movie. But hey, it could happen, it could be the best made for TV movie ever.
Back to Ben Barnes, I also finished Prince Caspian. It was a quick and sometimes pedantic read. The voice that the entire book is written in is so obviously masculine that sometimes it feels rather cardboard. I don't know how to actually describe it. It's just a shallowness. Like if a male is telling a story where you aren't really described the situation, but you are getting a summation. I am looking forward to the movie at the end of the week. I am hoping that I find this more memorable than The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe movie. I just can't say that I recall a whole lot of what actually happens in the first. This is the bane of being un-fan-like about something.
I am hemming and hawing now, whether to read The Host or A Sweet Far Thing. I have missed Kartik this last week without him. I even found Gemma Doyle fanfic and I couldn't read it without spoiling myself. Of course, because it is my way, I did manage to spoil myself some anyway. It's not as bad as last time where my nosiness spoiled me for the end of Rebel Angel's. This is more of a 'and after everything that happens, this happens' thing. I will stop talking about before I write it out and spoil Belle. So I guess I just made my decision. I will be reading, A Sweet Far Thing next. I wouldn't be sad if that got made into a movie. I don't have a clue as to who would play Gemma or Kartik. I would love for Kate Winslet to play Miss Moore. I don't know who I would have play Gemma's mother or father. Could I pick Charlie Cox to play Thomas though? And Pippa, Felicity and Ann... *sigh*. Too hard. I have one person cast in my version of A Great and Terrible Beauty. I will have to keep it a work in progress.
Today it is only 18 days until the 31st. I am hoping to be awake and coherent at 10AM that day to go to the bookstore and read the Special Edition Version of Eclipse for the Breaking Dawn chapter 1. I have tried to talk D into buying me the new version but as I want the paperback versions too, he's not as convinced to buy every version that comes out. So I might be living at the bookstore reading and rereading the chapter until 2 August. How pathetic. But it can't be helped. I feel like I've been waiting for this forever and it hasn't been a month. I can't imagine how those who read Eclipse when it came out feel. They are probably heavily medicated.
