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sqbr: Torchwood spoilers for various episode numbers: Jack dies (torchwood spoilers)
Friday, March 13th, 2009 09:30 am
Unspoilery thoughts: I liked it, on the whole I thought the additions to the book worked pretty well, but it sometimes sank into tacky oversexed melodrama. Also they added in too many new plot points towards the end of the season, it made for a somewhat unsatisfying conclusion.

I find it amusing that the main character, her boyfriend, and her brother are played by a New Zealander, an englishman, and an aussie respectively :) (I spent ages trying to figure out before realising: it's that guy from Home and Away!)

Also while I can see the purpose of the character best described as "The World's Most Annoying Vampire" they are indeed pretty annoying.

SPOILERY THOUGHTS (And it's a murder mystery, so don't click if you have ANY intention of watching)
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sqbr: Torchwood spoilers for various episode numbers: Jack dies (torchwood spoilers)
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 11:40 am
After being persuaded by this Hoyden about Town post I'm currently 2 episodes in to "True Blood", the TV adaptation by Alan Ball of "Six feet Under" of the Sookie Stackhouse books. After a slightly rocky start I'm really liking it, like the book it tries to actually charcaterise real people and situations which happen to involve vampires and murder in the south rather than being a shiny fetishised cliche like Every Other American Vampire TV Show Ever(*).

They seem to have turned "Dead Until Dark", the first book, into the first season so it's more drama than mystery and goes at a measured, atmospheric pace.

I've heard complaints about the vampire love interest being kind of old looking but I like it: it should feel a bit creepy for a 100+ year old guy to be interested in a young girl, and the actor does a good job of coming across simultaneously as a regular 30ish guy and Very Old.

Oh and it is FULL of sex. Lots and lots. But not in a very sexy way afaict, it's more just..there, this thing people do which impacts on and is impacted by their characters and lives. Most vampire romance equates death with sex, this goes the other way too, so it's all very visceral and bloody and grimy. The credits are intense.

Lot of vampire shows at the moment though aren't there? I still haven't gotten around to trying "Being Human".

(*)The english do a bit better :)
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sqbr: A happy dragon on a pile of books (bookdragon)
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 03:37 pm
Continuing my mystery streak, I just read Devil in a Blue Dress which was very good for what it is (noir), longer review here.

I also read The Lady Tasting Tea, a history of the way statistics has affected society and vice versa. It was an interesting topic not quite as well written about as I would have liked: the author is a statistician, which means he has a personal connection with and understands his story, but it was a bit clunky and unclear in parts. I would have preferred either less wordy explanations or more maths, as it was he gave just enough information that I felt like I should understand what he was saying on a deeper level, but not enough that I actually could (there was not one single equation. Yes, that is a bad thing! To me, anyway :)). I may have to go and read an actual stats textbook now(*).

(*)Further evidence of what a bad influence [livejournal.com profile] sanguinity is on me.
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