The Tarkovski film has haunted me for 30 years so when I managed to get both the book and film simultaneously I thought I'd read the book first.At over 3 hours the Tarkovsky film felt longer than the book, but I was absorbed and intrigued by both. John skimmed the book and dropped the film after 2 h...
3 stars instead of 4 because...I liked the book and the story but, there were some very dry, text-like sections, that made me lose interest and kinda, zone-out.
For years, I've heard about how good an author Lem is. I remember looking for his books in graduate school, but his popularity, combined with the scarcity of translated editions, meant I never could find them, even in secondhand bookshops. For whatever reason, I remembered a few weeks ago that I h...
Cross-posted on ReaderlingThere's an episode in Little House on the Prairie - the book, not the tv show. Jeez, people, I'm writing here on bookface after all - where Laura finds a book of Tennyson's poems in the house. She realizes that it's to be gift from her folks to her, and shuts up the book ...
Very, very interesting story. I didn't know what to think of this story at times, so I will describe, as well as I can, the different impressions I had at different times while reading. If this makes no sense, please accept my apologies. I'm gonna try to keep it clean, but be warned, there may be sp...
I'm afraid I'm a philistine. I liked the Soderberg remake of the movie most, then the book, and last the original Tarkovsky movie. If you're cultured and sophisticated, I think that you're supposed to have the exact opposite ordering. Oh well.In my defense, I recall that, when I watched the Tarkovsk...
I never saw the movie(s) for this but I knew going into the book that the protagonist, who I learned was named Kelvin, was on an alien planet and his dead wife was appearing to him. Of course, since this was in the movie trailers, I assumed there must be much more going on if they were going to gi...
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