Question!

[annundriel]

On my book list of books I've read there are 37 books, not counting anything on the internet be it fan or original fiction. This particular book list is on my laptop which I've had for about a year. So, I can pretty much gather I've read about 37 books in the last year. Is this a gratuitous number of books? Is it average? Is it low? I really want to know.

Comments

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Yes, "The Dark is Rising" is the sequel to "Over Sea, Under Stone". But both books are also part of a series of five. The characters in "Over Sea, Under Stone" appear in the last three books and everything from each separate set of characters falls together. It's a very good series.

Here's my screwy theory about love and reality. And why love can be so powerful. The love of another person is the acknowledgment that something other than one's self is real. The end of the first movie seems to me to be about love and belief and faith. (There are religious metaphors all over the movie.) These three concepts are very powerful and carry through centuries of history and literature. They are what control us in everything we do. Of course there's hate and all the really bad things that drive people, but didn't they once start as something good?

And I've completely rambled off-topic. Oops. Anyway, back to the movie. "Is reality really what it seems?" This is the question I had at the end of the second movie. What is real? What does it mean? Reality is what we make of it and nothing is ever really what it appears to be on the surface.

I did watch an interview with several of the cast members and they did mention Baudrillard several times. It's all very interesting and I don't know quite enough about it to make any sense. (See about paragraph.) Mostly I'm thinking "aloud". Thank you for the link, BTW. I had a chance to skim over a couple of the essays and am looking forward to reading it all more thoroughly.

I hope some of this made sense. It's been a long day and I'm not as learned in this area as I'd sometimes like to be. Mostly I'm just going with my thoughts and opinions. But I do love a good discussion.

I have to say that I admire the Wachowski (spelling?) very much. They made the type of movie they wanted to see and weren't afraid to be intelligent. They've put concepts out there that many people who are drawn to the Matrix movies may never have really thought about. (I mean 14 year old boys who want to see Neo kick butt and Trinity in leather.) I would love to listen to commentary on these movies. I'm a big fan of movie commentaries. The Lord of the Rings commentaries are great. Very enlightening. But time is always needed.