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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Besides "The lying carpet" on dead tree, I finally read "The curious case of Benjamin Button" in ePub.
Good tale! Particularly interesting how despite the effect of inverting age it has no significant impact on his developing relationships: he at first feels more at ease with his grandparent, then as he "matures" he is in good deal with his father, he has "teen" problems with his son, and when finally a grandpa, he's obviously in very good company with his grandson. Isn't it as it usually goes?
A very good tale, with a very poetic and truthful ending. No idea how they made it into full length movie, though. |
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Originally Posted by maianhvk
It's that good? I watched the movie and to be honest, I didn't like it. Maybe Oscar movies are not for me!
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I loved the classic story of
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (
@ feedbooks). My friends went to the movie and, from what they told me, it was not like the book.
Just finished Robert J. Sawyer's
Hominids (volume 1 of the Neanderthal Parallax) and starting
Humans. Hominids kept me turning pages and I didn't want to put it down to go to sleep.
Spoiler:
From Publishers Weekly
In this polished anthropological SF yarn, the first of a trilogy from Nebula Award winner Sawyer (The Terminal Experiment), Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth, as both sides discover when a Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleoanthropologist Mary Vaughan, promptly identifies and warmly receives Ponter. Solving the language problem and much else is a mini-computer called a Companion implanted in the brain of every Neanderthal. A computerized guardian spirit, however, doesn't eliminate cross-cultural confusion permanent male-female sexuality, rape and overpopulation are all alien to Ponter nor can it help his housemate and fellow scientist back in his world, Adikor Huld, when the authorities charge Adikor with his murder. Ponter's daughter Jasmel believes in Adikor's innocence, but to prevent a horrendous miscarriage of justice (Adikor could be sterilized), she must try to reopen the portal and bring her father home. The author's usual high intelligence and occasionally daunting erudition are on prominent display, particularly in the depiction of Neanderthal society. Some plot points border on the simplistic, such as Mary's recovering from a rape thanks to Ponter's sensitivity, but these are minor flaws in a novel that appeals to both the intellect and the heart.
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