Love Comes West
Mar. 31st, 2014 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI thought slippers were supposed to be soft? I wore my new slippers yesterday evening, and they've taken the skin off the back of my heels. That's not right, is it?
March books read
* The Ghost Pirates - William Hope Hodgson (1909)
* William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back - Ian Doescher (2014)
Have you ever read a ghost story and thought, sure, the ghosts were good, but if only they'd also been pirates? Or read a pirate story and thought, yeah, okay, but they could have been a bit more... ghostly? If so, f-list, The Ghost Pirates is the book for you!
I'm not quite sure what else to say about this. I mean, it's a ripping yarn about ghost pirates. It does exactly what it says on the tin. I don't mean that as faint praise; I enjoyed it a lot. It's moody and suspenseful and creepily cinematic. In fact, so cinematic is the pirates' final attack on the ship they are menacing, I would not be surprised to find that the writers of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie had read it. It seemed very familiar, let's say.
I read William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope last year, so Amazon thought I might be interested in the sequel. And it was good, but not as good as the first one, so start with that if you're interested in finding out what Star Wars would be like if Shakespeare wrote it. The cover shows Yoda in a ruff, if you're into that sort of thing.
Actually, that was one of the things I was most curious about going into this: what does Yoda sound like in iambic pentameter? When he finally turned up, I was disappointed at first, as not only doesn't he speak in iambic pentameter, but also speak like Yoda he does not. So what's up there? It wasn't until he had a speech longer than three lines that I realised what was happening: Shakespearean Yoda speaks in haiku. Which is quite clever.
What I liked best about it was that the bit players got their own soliloquies. So if you've ever wondered what's going through the mind of that giant slug that nearly eats the Millenium Falcon in the asteroid... well, this is your chance to find out.
March books read
* The Ghost Pirates - William Hope Hodgson (1909)
* William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back - Ian Doescher (2014)
Have you ever read a ghost story and thought, sure, the ghosts were good, but if only they'd also been pirates? Or read a pirate story and thought, yeah, okay, but they could have been a bit more... ghostly? If so, f-list, The Ghost Pirates is the book for you!
I'm not quite sure what else to say about this. I mean, it's a ripping yarn about ghost pirates. It does exactly what it says on the tin. I don't mean that as faint praise; I enjoyed it a lot. It's moody and suspenseful and creepily cinematic. In fact, so cinematic is the pirates' final attack on the ship they are menacing, I would not be surprised to find that the writers of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie had read it. It seemed very familiar, let's say.
I read William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope last year, so Amazon thought I might be interested in the sequel. And it was good, but not as good as the first one, so start with that if you're interested in finding out what Star Wars would be like if Shakespeare wrote it. The cover shows Yoda in a ruff, if you're into that sort of thing.
Actually, that was one of the things I was most curious about going into this: what does Yoda sound like in iambic pentameter? When he finally turned up, I was disappointed at first, as not only doesn't he speak in iambic pentameter, but also speak like Yoda he does not. So what's up there? It wasn't until he had a speech longer than three lines that I realised what was happening: Shakespearean Yoda speaks in haiku. Which is quite clever.
What I liked best about it was that the bit players got their own soliloquies. So if you've ever wondered what's going through the mind of that giant slug that nearly eats the Millenium Falcon in the asteroid... well, this is your chance to find out.