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Mar 06, 2009
Castle Keep
2 of 2 found this helpful I loved the William Eastlake novel. This is a war story that can be seen as anti-war, pro-soldier, or just pro-human. I've read it several times, including aloud to my wife. The novel works on multiple levels. The frankly enjoyable comico-surrealist narrative about a mythical U.S. Army company covers a few days in a French village, culminating as the German offensive of the Battle of the Bulge washes over it. We are cushioned from the underlying grit of war by the humor, antics and idiosyncrasies of the GI's, and by the distorting filter of the novelists quirky imagination and unexpectedly poetic images.
I had to see the movie. I've read that it was rescued from obscurity for this 2004 release by request of several prominent directors, and I'm grateful for that. The movie implements the book very accurately, and now I will forever have visual associations to the essentials of the story. After the bareness of the written page, to see heavy weapons in action definitely removes some of the distance that the reader might have maintained. But note that the few battle scenes are not realistic and not intended to be. The quirky dialog which worked in the book seems more stilted in the movie. I found the humor worked as well in the movie as in the novel, but the tragedy and sadness of the novel relied heavily on descriptions, and are less clear in the movie. In short, the movie is a considerably different experience, in spite of closely following the novel. I found the sound quality disappointing, more so than can be explained by the age of this 1969 production. You may want to try the English subtitles. I will keep my DVD and will watch it again in a few years. I'll also read the novel again.
Jun 23, 2017
Cheap repair
If everybody understood how easy it is to make most dryer repairs, there would be fewer new dryers sold. Just check out a youtube video on your model. Anyway, this part fixed my dryer for a few $. However, there is something to look out for. These fuses are sold with several temperature values, and the temperature is not always clearly described by some venders. Be sure to look at what value is in your dryer, and match it. By the way, the reason that my dryer over heated is because a large, puffy comforter was put in (probably a bad idea) and it filled the barrel so completely that it impeded air passage. So the fuse cutting out was definitely a good thing.
Jul 07, 2007
Edgar Allen Poe inspired Graphic Stories (explicit)
This book is a hardbound collection of three separate comic collections of Edgar Allen Poe poems and stories tranposed into illustrated graphic novel or bande dessinee form. The graphic stories are sometimes far from the original - eg, hip hop artist gun battles and high school connected mass murder. Some of the stories violate the Gothic tradition of Poe stories, but for me they are right in the spirit of finding horror in a special vision of the world around us. I bought this as a fan of Poe and am not a regular comic reader.
All poems and stories present first the new graphic version, and then the original Poe text - the texts are relatively short and so by far most of the book is graphic. Some of the stories include their own new text with the new concept, while some use the exact original Poe words. I enjoyed each in a different way, but the stories which retained the original words solved a more complex creative problem and are an impressive accomplishment.
The stories and graphics are not for kids, with incessant violence and gore. In fact, some adults will not want to look at these. The illustrations are almost entirely B&W, with a few splashes of red employed skillfully on select pages. The art seems to me to use typical comic exaggeration and stylization - but I'm not the person to evaluate it on an absolute scale.
The pages are not numbered - my rough count is about 80 pages of illustrations (plus additional pages with the Poe text). The book employs a heavy, shiny finish paper that seems likely to be very long-lived, and has sharp, crisp printing.
The book is handsomely put together with a red on black theme for the cover and red endpapers. The dust jacket is well illustrated in black and red with a dramatic frame from The Raven on the front cover and one from The Tell-Tale Heart on the back cover.
The list price is $19.95. I got my mint copy on eBay for $15 including shipping. It is currently available from Amazon for a similar price.