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November 2010

7 posts

October 2010

4 posts

September 2010

6 posts

July 2010

3 posts

Quick Review: Hotel Iris

This novel was more like the Ogawa of The Diving Pool. At times, it was slow like The Housekeeper + The Professor, but it was disturbing rather than oddly sentimental. Ogawa explores the psychology of a young girl discovering her sexuality for the first time with a sadomasochist. Constantly having to lie to her mother in order to continue her violent trysts with the translator, Mari sustains...

The Housekeeper + The Professor

Just finished reading Yoko Ogawa’s novel. I had previously read her short stories in The Diving Pool. This was much different to those disturbing but intriguing tales. Like much of Ishiguro’s oeuvre (I wrote a thesis at Yale about his work), this novel is very slow superficially and seems to have a deeper turbulence under the surface. What’s different, however, is that that...

June 2010

4 posts

How poor was Prince of Persia?

Nothing worse than a period drama based on an unrealistic story. How many times did we have to watch Jake Gyllenhaal and that chick almost kiss? Too many unnecessary action sequences. Topped off by an ending that made the entire movie pointless. No time wasters please!

Trying to eat candy floss on a pier is a bit fussy.

May 2010

1 post

April 2010

31 posts