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9-15July2006 :: This Week

15July2006 [weekly]

• watched the first part of Bleak House; it’s setting up rather nicely, complete with nasty Dickensian exposition; but I’m not sure I can stand a whole season of it; perhaps the ABC will broadcast a couple episodes each week to speed things up
• watched Pitch Black; cheap thriller but the suspense was remarkable
• watched 36 Quai des Orfèvres; not a bad French police thriller; they were doing rather interesting things with the soundtrack, making the mumbled dialogue rather difficult to follow; I caved and switched on subtitles 20 minutes in
• watched Good Night, and Good Luck; frightening
• watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; entertaining, funny, but probably won’t stand up to a repeat viewing
• watched Lord of War; blows things up and makes you think
• finished reading Pattern Recognition; still one of the best books I’ve read; a beautiful line right at the end:

she might have told them she was weeping for her century, though whether the one past or the one present she doesn’t know.

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