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I've just finished reading 'The Sea-Wolf' and let me tell you, it is amazing. It's this really cool adventure story set in this really big sail ship, the kind that existed really really long ago, called the Ghost. What's amazing about it are the characters. Wolf Larsen, the notorious captain, is this really mean, ruthless brute, who believes in Darwin's survival of the fittest. He refers to life as the crawling movements of yeast and doesn't believe in anything moral. Not that he's immoral, just that he is unmoral. Then there is Humphrey (strangely similar to the Humphrey in Gossip Girl, BTW), who is this impeccable, well-brought up gentlemen who, due to his own misfortune, gets trapped on the ship to work as a cabin boy. He believes in everything moral, of civilisation and such, you know, all those iffy, fluffy stuffs. Then, as you see the characters evolve, harden if you will, the ship picks up a lady by the name of Maud (weird name, I know), and wouldn't ya know it, romance blossoms. Now this isn't the stuffy, draggy romance of the Jane Austen persuasion, rather, its really cheeky and flirty and shy and all, filled with furtive glances (ah that twinkle in your eye), and flirtatious words and thoughts, and the ending is the most cheekiest of things. It's like one of those adventure movies you watch on TV, which is so hard to believe because this book was written by Jack London like eons ago. I LOVED the ending, it was really cute.
Oh, and I happened to have finished watching 'The Reader'. It's a strange movie, apparently its like rated and all, but I didn't know... Anyways, if you want to watch it and you are as young as me, pray, skip the first part of the movie. I wouldn't say it is suitable for children. Actually, I like the later parts a lot better than the beginning, even though they put 'old-lady' make-up on Kate Winslet so she doesn't look as pretty as she does in real life. It's quite sad actually, poignant.
I'd recommend it if you fancy these sort of movies.
Now, I think I'll watch 'Milk'. It's Sean Penn you know (brilliant, brilliant actor), and it's about gay rights. Hmm, should be immensely interesting. Apparently, in the end, you actually start rooting for Franco and Penn, even when they are kissing and all (Eww?).
Well, time to go, see you in about a week or more.
// Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:42 PM
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