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Dec 04, 2010 15:09

Just watched Never Let Me Go (thank you, stepliana) and I am all broken and sad inside. The story is full of aches of the heart, and Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield have stolen me. Carey Mulligan is amazing. Breathless. I really want to watch An Education, now, to watch her act again ( Read more... )

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3pipeproblem December 4 2010, 21:06:09 UTC

Read it. It is amazing, so much subtler than the movie and utterly heartbreaking. The Remains of the Day is fantastic, too--I thought it'd be very dry, but it was surprisingly humorous at times.

treelines December 29 2010, 22:38:29 UTC

It has been! Subtle, that is. I'm only four or five chapters into the book so far, and I haven't been able to read it all the way through in significant chunks. I think the emotional impact is lessened by that, but I'm enjoying it all the same. I've also heard good things about his Nocturnes.

So it's been a while, but -- who was the author you were raving about for so long back in the TM heyday? Not the Kavalier and Clay author, the other one?

stepliana December 5 2010, 20:43:19 UTC

Read the book. I love the movie because it is so faithful to the book, but the book is SO MUCH MORE. It is perfect. It is heartbreaking. But it is perfect.

treelines December 29 2010, 22:36:39 UTC

I've started reading it!!! It's really subtle, and the Kathy of the book is different from Mulligan's Kathy in a lot of ways. She knows more in what feels like a concrete, real-worldly way, rather than the movie's Kathy, who seems to know things instinctively or spiritually.

thepsychicclam December 8 2010, 03:55:33 UTC

oooh i really want to see never let me go. an education was pretty good, too.

i don't read as much as i wish i did :/ i have a stack of books that just sit there and never get read. i should read more, but i always find excuses not to.

treelines December 29 2010, 22:34:09 UTC

I really recommend seeing the movie. It was incredibly heartbreaking in all the best ways. Lemme know if you want to see it.

I have the same problem, except without the stack. :( Somehow I can't seem to justify designating time for a book. Time for the internet seems like it costs so much less, even though it would be the same amount of time.