"The point of a story can penetrate far deeper than the point of any bullet."

~ Lawrence Nault - The Mountain Hermit

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Some videos

At last for those, who doesn't like english subtitles: now there is a great part of Finnish animation and comedy, Pasila, finally dubed to english. If interested, you can find it from site of Finnish National Television YLE.

Another video is a peak about something that I have also waited: first part of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. Now I can enjoy (finally) an OFFICIAL trailer.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Animal's revolution


George Orwell's Animal Farm is one of those books: everyone praise it, but I can't see what for. Yes, there was some good notices about power and it's using and it predicted pretty well the future of the Soviet Union. But still it's not more than one of those books which don't have any kind of impact on you.
   For those who haven't ever heard of this book: in Animal Farm animals start to rebel and they depose people and form nation where every animal are equal, at least in the beginning. Orwell who supported socialism, wrote his short novel as a satire about Soviet Union, which he think had forgot basic values of socialism.
Even if the novel based on clever thinking, it doesn't shine with literary merits. Comparisons to animals are too obvious and the text is way too pointing and underlining. It isn't funny or even entertaining. The spark that make you want to read more is conspicuously absent.

Mark: 5