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It's 3 am...
Dec. 12th, 2008 03:03 am..and I'm awake! and bored! not awake enough that I could do something useful, alas, but not asleep enough to actually be, you know, ASLEEP! And I have to be up early tomorrow and do Important Stuff (might be why I am not sleeping, who knows..)...AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I'm finishing reading Sidetracked, by Henning Mankel, btw, aka Wallander. I saw a couple of eps on the telly and I was curious to compare the book to the adaptation. I have to say, Wallander is beautifully filmed, it has a very atmospheric feel to it, which renders the Swedishness of the characters/settings quite well. However, I don't think it would work without Kenneth Branagh playing Wallander (Branagh being the reason why I wanted to watch it in the first place), because the pace, if you are not taken in by the gorgeous photography and nuances of silence and terse dialogues, can be slow.
The book I'm reading is the fifth in the series, whereas it was the first adapted for the series, so a number of elements are of course changed. The book is...uhm. I don't want to say boring, because it isn't. I will read another so that I am not distracted by knowing who's who already. But the detail is somewhat excruciating, in that each action - most of them anyway - is scrupolously recorded and reported, open door, close door, sit down, get up, etc etc. The plot devices aren't anything new, hints thrown in close to the beginning that Wallander himself conveniently 'forgets' for a while until they suddenly become o'so useful. Still, it is a pleasant read.
*taps fingers on desk*
Nope, not sleepy yet...
ETAAlso! I feel no shame in confessing a long standing appreciation for one Brian Austin Green - BAG..I ask you...? anyway- since the long bygone times of BH92010 (yes, I am that old), appreciation that's just blossoming with his appearing in TSCC and relative interviews: the boy has grown sooooo well :DDD
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I'm finishing reading Sidetracked, by Henning Mankel, btw, aka Wallander. I saw a couple of eps on the telly and I was curious to compare the book to the adaptation. I have to say, Wallander is beautifully filmed, it has a very atmospheric feel to it, which renders the Swedishness of the characters/settings quite well. However, I don't think it would work without Kenneth Branagh playing Wallander (Branagh being the reason why I wanted to watch it in the first place), because the pace, if you are not taken in by the gorgeous photography and nuances of silence and terse dialogues, can be slow.
The book I'm reading is the fifth in the series, whereas it was the first adapted for the series, so a number of elements are of course changed. The book is...uhm. I don't want to say boring, because it isn't. I will read another so that I am not distracted by knowing who's who already. But the detail is somewhat excruciating, in that each action - most of them anyway - is scrupolously recorded and reported, open door, close door, sit down, get up, etc etc. The plot devices aren't anything new, hints thrown in close to the beginning that Wallander himself conveniently 'forgets' for a while until they suddenly become o'so useful. Still, it is a pleasant read.
*taps fingers on desk*
Nope, not sleepy yet...
ETAAlso! I feel no shame in confessing a long standing appreciation for one Brian Austin Green - BAG..I ask you...? anyway- since the long bygone times of BH92010 (yes, I am that old), appreciation that's just blossoming with his appearing in TSCC and relative interviews: the boy has grown sooooo well :DDD
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