Emerald City (US)
More alien than spaceships
Jul 2006
Bear Daughter by Judith Berman has been lying on my desk for the longest time. I finished reading it weeks ago, but writing the review was daunting. Not because Bear Daughter is a bad book, but because I couldn’t organise my thoughts to form a proper opinion. The deadline has come and gone and has come again, so I will attempt to unravel my ambivalence.
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Tristan and Isolde
Apr 2006
Tristan and Isolde is a love story from early European times. A Romeo and Juliet from the Dark Ages, when England was nothing but a collection of Cornish, Picts and Saxons and The Netherlands were a soggy strip of land where occupying Romans were getting stuck in the mud.
This love story has been made into a forgettable film with a star-struck Isolde, a petulant Tristan and a host of selfish, ugly men. Lees verder...
This love story has been made into a forgettable film with a star-struck Isolde, a petulant Tristan and a host of selfish, ugly men. Lees verder...
Serenity
Sep 2005
Once, there was a television series called Firefly, written en produced by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel). Ten episodes were aired in the US before the show was cancelled. (In the Netherlands, Firefly was aired after midnight on a Saturday. Not prime time here either). The series was described as cowboys and whores in space and how are ordinary people to deal with nine main characters, spaceships, Chinese swearing and no aliens? Yet when the series of fourteen episodes was released on DVD, people loved it. Firefly-hugging websites sprung up everywhere and fans (calling themselves Browncoats) cried for more. They got more, they got a feature film called Serenity.Lees verder...