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Language in colour
Oct. 3rd, 2008 07:59 pm1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
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kikibug13 gave me ( K )
Coming up with five characters was much more challenging than I expected - mostly because I had trouble thinking of characters I like whose names begin with K. I'm sure I would have had exactly the same problem with any other letter, though. I think I put down every single character I thought of - in that order, too.
I've been rereading The Curse of Chalion again over the last couple of days. I limit myself to reading it about twice or four times a year now, and I think it's been about six months since I last read it. While I hadn't forgotten how much I enjoy it, at the same time, I delighted in sinking into the glorious use of language and images.
This time, it was the visual images that I noticed the most. While I think it's too internal a book to be filmed at all well, Bujold's descriptions and use of language make it a very visually appealing book. Besides, I've read or participated in a few casting discussions since I last read it, and while I read it, I got a lot of almost movie quality images in my head, not any action scenes, but just about all of the small group scenes; this time I could see detail, not just outline; full faces, not just sketch figures. I was paying attention to the use of colour, so vividly present in the Five Gods books anyway, texture and sound; poetry echoes and thunders.
There are reasons this book has been top of my favourite books list since it was published seven years ago and one of them is that I can still get new things out of it on the twenty plus read through.
Time to go to bed now; I think the changeover to daylight savings has affected me more than I thought - I'm exhausted.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
kikibug13 gave me ( K )Coming up with five characters was much more challenging than I expected - mostly because I had trouble thinking of characters I like whose names begin with K. I'm sure I would have had exactly the same problem with any other letter, though. I think I put down every single character I thought of - in that order, too.
I've been rereading The Curse of Chalion again over the last couple of days. I limit myself to reading it about twice or four times a year now, and I think it's been about six months since I last read it. While I hadn't forgotten how much I enjoy it, at the same time, I delighted in sinking into the glorious use of language and images.
This time, it was the visual images that I noticed the most. While I think it's too internal a book to be filmed at all well, Bujold's descriptions and use of language make it a very visually appealing book. Besides, I've read or participated in a few casting discussions since I last read it, and while I read it, I got a lot of almost movie quality images in my head, not any action scenes, but just about all of the small group scenes; this time I could see detail, not just outline; full faces, not just sketch figures. I was paying attention to the use of colour, so vividly present in the Five Gods books anyway, texture and sound; poetry echoes and thunders.
There are reasons this book has been top of my favourite books list since it was published seven years ago and one of them is that I can still get new things out of it on the twenty plus read through.
Time to go to bed now; I think the changeover to daylight savings has affected me more than I thought - I'm exhausted.