Books and Movies, February 2010

[frostflake]

Books and Movies, February 2010

Movies
Moby Dick, 1956
Ultraviolet, 2006
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
3:10 to Yuma, 1957
3:10 to Yuma, 2007
Moon, 2009
The Air I Breathe, 2007
Hellboy II,
American History X,

Books
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Clash of

Comments

[vorozheya]

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neightbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

How did you like this. I love Petrushevksaya and have read most of the stories in that collection in Russian (it's incredibly difficult) but have yet to check out that specific translation. I thought they were a lot more humorous than her other stuff. If you liked it I really recommend Sally Laird's translation of her novella "The Time: Night" and another collection of short stories called, "Immortal Love." I really hope she starts to get more recognition. I think she's brilliant.

[frostflake]

I really liked it. The subtitle to the American edition is "scary fairy tales", but they were more creepy, or grim, sometimes, than scary.

I can't imagine reading them in Russian. Reading Lermontov is hard enough for me.

I will definitely check those out.