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[shop_bitch]

So far, the Easter break has been more than a little mundane - another paper to write, the bathroom to clean and a whole lot of sitting in the garden watching the bees go about their business. Tomorrow, lunch by the river and a stroll along the South Bank for an afternoon at the Tate Modern, where I get to be a child again and play on the Casten

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[corneliusagain]

I had a similar experience recently with Syriana. I had thought watching one of George Clooney's serious ones might be interesting, but it kind of turned out that it left any attempt to be a good film (engaging, understandable, etc.) behind in the name of worthiness and just as it was getting incomprehensible had a torture scene which was just too nasty for it to justify. So switched off. Which is pretty impressive, I haven't done that to a film before as far as I can remember.

[shop_bitch]

I need to learn the art of switching off, just as I need to learn the art of not finishing a terrible book. I seem to have this idea that things may get better if I just persist. Foolsih attitude and strange, because I'm generally not much of an optimist when it comes to pretty much everything else!

[corneliusagain]

I think the turning off was helped by the scene being quite sudden and very horrible. Plus films make me nervous ever since one I saw at uni where one of my fave actresses of the time met a very grisly end indeed. Films are permanently on probation with me after that. Don't you find books sometimes lose momentum and kind of dribble to being left alone in a dusty pile by the bed? Or are you a speed reader?

[shop_bitch]

I'm a bit of a voracious reader - as much as my life will let me be anyway. I tend to have 3 books on the go at once, that way if anyone of them lose momentum I just hop along to the next one until I'm ready to go back. This kind of reading strategy prevents me from finishing anything speedily and leaves me more than a little confused sometimes..