Gudenes Fall, by Cornelius Jakhelln.
2007, 428 pages.
Now, this might be a little weird. Gudenes Fall (The Fall of the Gods) is a book that most likely never will be translated into English, and yet, I choose to review it in English. But hey, my English is still worse than my Norwegian.
In the year 1000 AD, [...]
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“A sadly pensive longing” — maybe my favourite word in the entire English language.
Gudenes Fall
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
Issue 5 — The Chain
My immediate reaction to this issue, is that it is the best one this far.
Because while it lacks those “OMIGAWD!1 IT’S HER/HIM/IT/THEM!!!1″ moments, it was a beautiful and sad story, with elegant pathos and an endearing main character whose name we never even learn.
Quite a treat; if all the “short ones” they intend to stick [...]
Romeo + Juliet
For long periods of my life, I’ve nurtured a completely irrational dislike for the actor Leonardo di Caprio, a dislike probably rooted in my background as a male kid in the late 90s, when “Leo” was the dream boy of every girl, and the envy of every boy. And, as is so very often the [...]
Serenity
It’s been over a year and a half since the (first and) last time, but I finally got around to watch “Serenity” again.
And it was a pleasant surprise; before I watched it again, after having watched the series a second time, I feared that the relationship between the characters would be messed up, and that [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I finished the book five minutes ago, some 18 or 19 hours after I found it in my mailbox. I’ll try to review it, and I’ll do my best to do so without any spoilers, but for those who doesn’t want to know a godsdamned thing, I’ll hide it. Naturally, there will be spoilers for [...]
Noooooooooooooo!
Spoiler, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 385:
It’s here!
I just picked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows out of my post box, and because I am terrified of spoilers and want this to be an unblemished reading experience, I will now commence “radio silence” until the deed is done. No Internet, no newspapers, no TV, no radio — none of anything in which [...]
Sunshine
Perhaps the only advantage of having to depend on a small town cinema during summers: I get the opportunity to watch movies I missed when they were screened in Trondheim. As was the case of “Sunshine“.
In 2050, the Sun is about to stop burning, and a crew of astronauts and scientists are sent out to [...]
Dalek!
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of days now, but haven’t found the time for it until now. And while the immediacy of the post’ll be lost, compared to what it’d been if I’d written it when I should have, I feel it has to be said:
I’ve used to make fun [...]
A “Tigana” related “whoa!”
Perhaps it is because I am mentally exhausted after two very long, very straining tours earlier today, but I just had a whole new experience:
I’ve never before — never ever — been touched to tears by exposition just 116 pages into a book. Never. Not until Baerd told Devin of the fate of Tigana and [...]
… and “Reaper’s Gale”.
”Reaper’s Gale”
by Steven Erikson.
Bantham TPB, 2007. 910 s.
It’s been three years since the Edur conquest of the Letherii Empire, and one year since the outlawing of Adjunct Tavore, the Bonehunters, and the rest of her army.
“Reaper’s Gale” has the same basic structure as all the other “Malazan” books. It starts out kinda slow, with a [...]
Seeing Red: A Case in the Study of Joss Whedon, Sadistic Genious
This has got to be one of the best worst minutes of television I have ever seen. Observe, if you will, these four moments:
1. Bliss, as Buffy and Xander make up and embrace.
2. Dread, as Warren appears, toting a gun.
3. Grief, and/or anguish, as a stray bullet from Warren’s gun penetrates Tara’s chest, and her [...]
The Merchant of Venice
The backside of almost having filled these six months’ quota in only five months? I’m really beginning to tiring of writing film reviews, especially as I don’t seem to get any better at it.
Anyway. We watched “The Merchant of Venice” last… Sunday, I believe it was, an 2004 adaption of William Shakespeare’s classic play. I’ve [...]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, part III
Whoa.
And when I was done, Queen’s “You Take My Breath Away” was next in line in my WMP playlist. How’s that for a coincidence?
Half-way evil Willow.
A Angel-Buffy(in-nurse-costume)-Spike dream landscape with barbed wire.
Fi fa fucking fum.
“Ladies and other ladies… the indescribable Rosenberg.” - Xander.
“Well, this is really unimpressive. One attack by the undead and Renee has [...]
Babylon 5, season 2
Season two of “Babylon 5” opened with something of an outrage, as they replaced one of the main characters. At first this annoyed me, even though I didn’t think I liked the replaced character much, and the replacement seemed even duller than the original one. However, as time progressed, I realised that both replaced and [...]
Blog Challenge #… I honestly don’t know. Let’s call it “#1 after restart” (or just AR for short).
As can be seen from my blogroll, I intended to keep track of and participate in the Blog Challenge, but that never happened. So when Zhayena posted a new challenge at the NC blog, it didn’t take me long to decide to join.
The challenge is supposed be writing about a scene in a book or [...]
April 15 is coming up…
And with it the deadline for applying for admittance to higher education. Thus I, hopefully finishing my Bachelor in Social Studies (oooh, look at who’s learned the distinction between “studies” and “science” since last time! ), have had to come up with something I’d like to be doing next year. And seeing as said [...]
Withnail & I
I’ve heard a lot of people praising “Withnail & I” movie as one of the funniest movies ever made, and although I wouldn’t necessarily be inclined to agree with that, I have to admit that it at least is a very good movie, and that it’s quite witty.
“Withnail & I” doesn’t really have much of [...]
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It — AS5×22 Not Fade Away
That’s it. The end. And what an end it was.
By the time Angel said, “Well, personally, I’ve always wanted to slay a dragon,” I was sobbing — half laughing with joy, half crying from grief. Where the ending of “Chosen” just left me with a general feeling of relief and joy, where the only things [...]
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