Posted on 04/09/2013 5:27:53 PM PDT by Darksheare
I finished “Anna Karenina” last night. “The End,” the reader announced ... with the author’s having totally failed to tie up all the loose ends. Danged Russian!
Man. I hate when that happens! LOL!
I’m trying to decide what I want for breakfast. Or should I say “brunch?” Maybe an orange and some cheese slices...
Last night, I didn’t sleep well again. It would be nice to have an unbroken night of sleep. I was going to try and go to church today, but I’m just too tired to make the effort of getting dressed. Sad stuff, that. :o|
That, and the tentacles do tend to muffle things.
24 when I got up, but it has gone up to 40 as it is a sunny day with a few scattered, puffy, white clouds.
Goodness! The movie was much better at tying up the plot threads than that! Dang Dostoyevsky!
Dean Koontz does a superb job of tying up loose ends in False Memory.
Other than that, its a very nasty piece of work, which I couldn’t stop listening to.
Did the movie say what happened to Vronsky in Serbia? Did Stepan Arkadievich die in debtor’s prison?
Tentacles on a plane? Anything but that! “Hey, who snatched my Diet Coke?”
I’ll go back to history lectures in the kitchen for a while. The great thing about history is you know how it ends. So to speak. I mean, we won WW2 and all that.
LOL! Do we? I read a SF story some years back where we invented time travel in the early 40’s and sent a soldier ahead 50 years or so to find out out how it ended.
Ended up at the country home of a crusty recluse who didn’t want to be bothered.
What do you mean who won you idiot! Who do you think won!?!?
The soldier looks around sees the Japanese car, the Japanese stereo, the Japanese TV...
That’s amusing, but if he went ahead 70 years, he’d see Japan’s economy in freefall, existential threats from Red China, and the oldest population on earth.
Proving that even alternate history isn’t what it seems.
Phooey. Can we at least agree that the Egyptian pharoahs are dead?
To speak of the dead is to bring them to life ~ Egyptian proverb...
Dean Koontz is an awesome author. I’ve read almost all of his books. False Memory was a superbly scary book.
Dean Koontz did “Lightning” which was a time travel book, and the first one of his works that I ever read. I didn’t put it down until I finished it. Most of his work affects me like that.
No. Sigh... I guess that we are left to assume that Vronsky died of a broken heart.
Also, I don’t recall any updates before the end about Arkadievich.
I guess the movie wasn’t all that much better after all. [wry smiles]
Since my junior year in high school, I have been a huge science fiction fan.
I have gotten rid of some paperbacks, given to charity.
But we still have over 1,000 hardback books in our library.
They’re not all science fiction, but SF is a large percentage of them.
LOL! S.F. My initials. Destiny!
LOL!
I don’t know how many books I have, but they range from sci-fi to history and everything in between.
I have eight crates of books in storage, and I want to get them out. While I was visiting with Tax-chick, I noticed she has DVDs in nylon cases, and I realized if I did that, I could free up at least another two book shelves! That still leaves me with VHS tapes that need to be converted to DVDs, but at the moment it is cost prohibitive.
Doing that conversion and putting them in more cases will free up another two shelves, and I can bring my books out of storage.
We have a small library here, as well as a couple of book cases in the community room, where we can donate books and take what someone else has donated. Most of them are readable, but not necessarily worth keeping.
Wow! Up six notches and sincere compliments from professionals! It doesn’t get much better than that. I’ve been reading some of the soil science materials because I’m interested in rocks and dirt, and the information is both plentiful and complex. Those young people will set out in life well-prepared!
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