Fiction log - February 2010

[pedanther]

Fiction books
Jane Austen. Persuasion (re-read)
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility (re-read)
S M Stirling. The Sky People
Roger Zelazny. Roadmarks

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
(none)

Short fiction
Raymond Chandler. "The Bronze Door"
Michael Swanwick. "Land of our Fathers"

Poetry
(none)

Film
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (DVD)
The Mark of Zorro (video, the Tyrone Power version)

Theatre
(none)

Television serials
Doctor Who: The End of Time (re-watch)
The Pretender, season 1 (DVD)
Torchwood: Children of Earth

In progress
Pie in the Sky, season 1 (DVD)

Comic books in progress
Batman and Robin

Interactive narrative
Choice of the Dragon

In progress
Batman: Arkham Asylum


Books bought
Agatha Christie. Peril at End House
Dorothy Gilman. The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax
Tony Hillerman. Coyote Waits
Rosemary Kirstein. The Outskirter's Secret
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto (volume 7)

Books borrowed
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As the End


Top of the to-read pile
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As the End

Comments

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Persuasion is one of my favorite novels, especially for its psychological intricacies, and I was all excited when the adaptation came back to PBS -- until I remembered that the makers had cut out the best, tautest scene of emotional suspense in the entire story, and replaced it with a totally anachronistic passionate kiss in a public street where people were watching.

Bah.

Have you read Tony Hillerman, yet? He's one of my favorites.

[pedanther]

Bah, indeed. Which adaptation was that, so that I know to avoid it in future?

I have read one of Tony Hillerman's short stories, in an anthology of Great Crime Writers, but have not yet got around to reading any of his novels. (Are his novels particularly chronological? Would it, for instance, matter if I read Coyote Waits without having read any of the novels that come before it?)