"An Anthropoligist on Mars" by Dr. Sacks. True tales of people with a variety of strange neurological problems - losing color sight and all memory of color, losing the ability to understand emotional content in others speech, idiot savants, gifted autistics and more. I like how he takes the clinicals facts and adds the story of the humanity of theses people and how they cope and compensate for their damage.
Just finished The World is Flat and am starting Why Globalization Works and Kremlin Rising.
Also bought Rule of Four and The Historian at Costco this weekend. Halfway through The Historian...and really enjoying it so far, though it is much different than what I normally read.
I just started it. The girl has discovered the letter, and the father has taken her on a number of trips with him and explained what happened to his mentor and some of his own brushes with..."oddities."
Actually it is the movie that is completely different from the book. Which is why I usually try and read a book before it's changed by Hollywood.
Well, duh, lol...I knew that...but the book is still opposite of the movie
The book was so good, but the Bourne movies are good as well...
But you hear people getting so upset about the LotR movies being adapted with changes from the original text....this movie absolultely destroyed Ludlum's story...
Well, duh, lol...I knew that...but the book is still opposite of the movie
The book was so good, but the Bourne movies are good as well...
But you hear people getting so upset about the LotR movies being adapted with changes from the original text....this movie absolultely destroyed Ludlum's story...
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I was only saying it the way I did because the books came first.
The movies have gone so far from the books that they are Bourne movies in name only.
I've heard this guy is an amazing author, but haven't picked him up yet. How do you like this one?
I just started Kafka and haven't developed an opinion about it yet. I am probably going to finish Servant of the Shard first then pick of Kafka again.
I finished Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a while back, also by him. It was kind of hard to follow along - it was a surreal novel with alot of weird characters. But I enjoyed it. He is a good story teller. The theme that he has so far is that people let things happen to them. I don't know if this is prevalent in Japanese culture, but it is kind of against what my beliefs are. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle really reminds alot of Albert Camus' L’étranger, The Stranger, in an ecclectic sense, and has a similar tale telling. Toru, the main character remids me of a Japanese version of Meursault.
I just started it. The girl has discovered the letter, and the father has taken her on a number of trips with him and explained what happened to his mentor and some of his own brushes with..."oddities."
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