Reading, Listening, Watching
Dec. 21st, 2016 05:40 pmReading: End of the World Blues by Jon Courtney Grimwood. I thought I had a handle on this - crime and passion in Japanese with maybe super-powered incidental characters but its just taken a left turn into a castle at the end of time so, who knows what will happen next? Well written but I suspect it may turn out to be a little grim, over all, for my tastes.
Listening: Listened to Welcome to Night Vale's Sandstorm episodes which were, as
isis has mentioned, very good. But I think that's me done with Night Vale. They seem like a good place to step off.
Watching: Watched The Imitation Game last night which was an oddly frustrating experience. I know just enough about Turing's time at Bletchley to recognise that while the basic events were present and correct, they were being dramatised almost to the point of falsehood, but didn't have the knowledge to specifically critique what was being presented. However the framing device in which Turing relates the details of his war work to a cop as part of playing an imitation game is both laughably unlikely and makes no sense at all in the context of Turing's actual imitation game - I'm sure on the page it looked like a clever device, but the problem is only works at the most superficial level and the film is trying to be better than that.
Listening: Listened to Welcome to Night Vale's Sandstorm episodes which were, as
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Watching: Watched The Imitation Game last night which was an oddly frustrating experience. I know just enough about Turing's time at Bletchley to recognise that while the basic events were present and correct, they were being dramatised almost to the point of falsehood, but didn't have the knowledge to specifically critique what was being presented. However the framing device in which Turing relates the details of his war work to a cop as part of playing an imitation game is both laughably unlikely and makes no sense at all in the context of Turing's actual imitation game - I'm sure on the page it looked like a clever device, but the problem is only works at the most superficial level and the film is trying to be better than that.