Nimi: Bunny Munron kuolema
Alkuperäinen nimi: The death of Bunny Munro
Kirjoittaja: Nick Cave
Julkaistu: 2009, Like, alunperin myös 2009.
Genre: Satiiri lienee osuva. Ainakin takakannen mukaan
Sivuluku: 238
Viime vuoden joulu/synttärilahja, oli jo aikakin lukea! Suomennettu versio, Herra Caven tekstiä olisi ollut mielenkiintoista lukea alkuperäisellä kielellä, mutta ei ole lahjahevosen suuhun katsomista tai jotain. Ja teksti on melko sujuvaa suomeksikin.
Nimestä on melko helppo arvata, miten Bunny Munron kuolema tulee loppumaan, ja kiitos Nick-sedän kirjoituslahjojen, matka vääjäämättömään lopputulokseen on mutkikas ja ...vallan kiusallinen. Hauska. Iuuh.
No, siis. Bunny Munro on kiertelevä myyntitykki, myyjien myyjä, jumalan lahja kaikille naisille ja muutenkin aikamoinen pukki. Ainakin omasta mielestään. Elämä on leppoisaa, vaimo odottaa kotona lapsen kanssa kun Bunny ajelee ympäriinsä, myyden kauneustuotteita ovelta ovelle innokkaille kotirouville. Ja tulee siinä sivussa muutamaa sutaistuakin. Tai raiskattua. Mutta eräänä kauniina päivänä vaimokulta tekee itsemurhan, ja asiat eivät olekaan enää niin helppoja. Ensinnäkin, mitä ihmettä tehdä Bunny Juniorin kanssa? Libby-vaimon haamu tuntuu piilottelevan joka kulman takana, joten Bunny ottaa 9-vuotiaan pojan mukaansa ja lähtee elämänsä myyntikierrokselle.
Bunny on aikamoinen nilkki. Takakannen mukaan hän on antisankarien antisankari, monumentaalinen moukka. Olen samaa mieltä. Mutta hetki hetkeltä aina enemmän perseelleen menevä elämä herättää lukijassa pienen pienen säälin tunteen. Ainakin seuraavaan nilkkikohtaukseen asti. Nick-sedän teksti on aina nautinnollista. Vaikka tämän kirjan kanssa tuli myös se ...vallan kiusallinen niljakkuus selkärankaan.
"Bunny Junior toivoo, ettei hänen isälleen tapahdu mitään tosi pahaa, sillä vaikka äiti sanoi, että isä on eksyksissä, ja vaikka tämä ei luultavasti ole kovin hyvä isä siinä mielessä kuin Bunny Junior on nähnyt isien olevan tv:ssä ja lehdissä ja puistoissa ja sen sellaisissa, esimerkiksi silloin kun he ostavat silmätippoja estääkseen lastaan sokeutumasta tai heittelevät frisbeetä puistossa tai jotain, niin siitä huolimatta hän rakastaa isäänsä koko sydämestään eikä miljoonassakaan vuodessa vaihtaisi häntä toiseen. Kukapa vaihtaisi? Kun isä hassuttelee, hän on ehdottomasti repäisevän hauska - katsokaa vaikka nyt, kuinka hän loikkii housut nilkoissa alas tuon ränsistyneen talon portaita keskelle pihaa, joka on täynnä hajonneita jääkaappeja ja kylpyammeita ja rojua. Kenen muun isä pystyy tuollaiseen!"
lauantai 19. kesäkuuta 2010
sunnuntai 13. kesäkuuta 2010
A Pirate's Heart
Title: A Pirate's Heart
Author: Catherine Friend
Published: 2008 by Bold Strokes Books
Genre: Adventure and lesbian pirates
Pages: 316
Picked this one up for light summer reading, and the pirates went and stole my heart. Treasure hunts all around, yay! And pirates! And ale! And wenches! Yayness! Or, rather, Yarrrrrness!
Okay, more seriously. Pirate captain Thomasina Farris disappeared in 1715 with a huge treasure stolen from a Spanish galleon. Some say she drowned, some say she hanged. She left a map, though. And today, a thief is going through libraries, stealing old maps, looking for Captain Tommy's map. Emma, a librarian, helped by a PI called Randi-with-an-i, goes on a roadtrip to try and find the map, stop the thief, and save other books from being mauled so.
The book is split into two stories, 1715 with Captain Tommy, her crew, and the lovely Rebekah they save from certain death, and modern times with Emma and Randi and the elusive map thief. And since this is romantic adventure, our heroines of course find that, in the words of the one and only Captain Jack Sparrow, "Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."
This book sucked me in so well with its writing and pacing that one time, riding home in the bus, I didn't even notice a friend was trying to get my attention from across the aisle of the full bus. *cough* So I went and got Friend's other books from Amazon as well, for a couple of bucks.
I do have one complaint, though. Something that always annoys me. Women with men's names. TWO of them in this book. Yarrr. It's everywhere, though, no escaping from it in any medium. Hell, some of my favourite literary characters are females with male names. But it still ticks me off. But I'll forgive Ms Friend, because this was such a thrilling ride on the storming sea.
"I pulled out the research I'd gathered on Tommy Farris for my article and stared at the thin stack. The woman had commanded her own fleet of ships, sailed the open seas, answered to no one bu her men, and lived a life of terrible adventure.
"Why was I so obsessed with Tommy Farris?
"Easy. She was a pirate."
Author: Catherine Friend
Published: 2008 by Bold Strokes Books
Genre: Adventure and lesbian pirates
Pages: 316
Picked this one up for light summer reading, and the pirates went and stole my heart. Treasure hunts all around, yay! And pirates! And ale! And wenches! Yayness! Or, rather, Yarrrrrness!
Okay, more seriously. Pirate captain Thomasina Farris disappeared in 1715 with a huge treasure stolen from a Spanish galleon. Some say she drowned, some say she hanged. She left a map, though. And today, a thief is going through libraries, stealing old maps, looking for Captain Tommy's map. Emma, a librarian, helped by a PI called Randi-with-an-i, goes on a roadtrip to try and find the map, stop the thief, and save other books from being mauled so.
The book is split into two stories, 1715 with Captain Tommy, her crew, and the lovely Rebekah they save from certain death, and modern times with Emma and Randi and the elusive map thief. And since this is romantic adventure, our heroines of course find that, in the words of the one and only Captain Jack Sparrow, "Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."
This book sucked me in so well with its writing and pacing that one time, riding home in the bus, I didn't even notice a friend was trying to get my attention from across the aisle of the full bus. *cough* So I went and got Friend's other books from Amazon as well, for a couple of bucks.
I do have one complaint, though. Something that always annoys me. Women with men's names. TWO of them in this book. Yarrr. It's everywhere, though, no escaping from it in any medium. Hell, some of my favourite literary characters are females with male names. But it still ticks me off. But I'll forgive Ms Friend, because this was such a thrilling ride on the storming sea.
"I pulled out the research I'd gathered on Tommy Farris for my article and stared at the thin stack. The woman had commanded her own fleet of ships, sailed the open seas, answered to no one bu her men, and lived a life of terrible adventure.
"Why was I so obsessed with Tommy Farris?
"Easy. She was a pirate."
I am what I am
Title: I am what I am
Author: John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman
Published: 2009 by Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Genre: Memoir (said in John Malkovich in Burn after reading -way) with lots of humour.
Pages: 248 + index
Got this one back in January (signed, too! Even if the signature looks more like @ than anything else...), but only finished a week or so ago over trips from work.
I've said it before (in another place, though), but every time I think John Barrowman cannot get any more awesome, he goes and becomes more awesome. Now he's writing comics! *le sigh*
Who's John Barrowman, you may ask? He's a Scottish born, American raised, Wales living actor, singer, producer, writer, TV-host and all around funny and awesome man. Best known around the place as Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who, and its spin-off Torchwood, he's also been seen and heard in many movies, like The Producers (the 2005 version; he's the one singing that infamous song!) and De-lovely, where he's singing Cole Porter's Night and day, and also smooching the man (offscreen. Damn it.). Umm, what else. This is his second memoir (again with the Malkovich), first one being called Anything goes (I have that as an audio book, read by the man himself, but I've yet to get to that).
I am what I am is named after a song in the musical version of The Birdcage, and it's full of funny stories about John and his family, friends and TV-shows/movies/musicals he's worked in. So a lot of famous people, and a lot with the funniness. I've been watching Buffy again, please forgive the talk. My favourite bits were of course the bits about Doctor Who and Torchwood, as I'm a fan of both. But the rest was all good, and I got really distracted now looking for a nice YouTube vid to add here. So John's in Desperate Housewives as well! Nice! Killing old ladies... uh.
"Oh yes, I did see my life flash before me during an evening performance of Robin Hood at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2008, and all I kept repeating to myself was, 'Please don't let me die in tights.'"
Author: John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman
Published: 2009 by Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Genre: Memoir (said in John Malkovich in Burn after reading -way) with lots of humour.
Pages: 248 + index
Got this one back in January (signed, too! Even if the signature looks more like @ than anything else...), but only finished a week or so ago over trips from work.
I've said it before (in another place, though), but every time I think John Barrowman cannot get any more awesome, he goes and becomes more awesome. Now he's writing comics! *le sigh*
Who's John Barrowman, you may ask? He's a Scottish born, American raised, Wales living actor, singer, producer, writer, TV-host and all around funny and awesome man. Best known around the place as Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who, and its spin-off Torchwood, he's also been seen and heard in many movies, like The Producers (the 2005 version; he's the one singing that infamous song!) and De-lovely, where he's singing Cole Porter's Night and day, and also smooching the man (offscreen. Damn it.). Umm, what else. This is his second memoir (again with the Malkovich), first one being called Anything goes (I have that as an audio book, read by the man himself, but I've yet to get to that).
I am what I am is named after a song in the musical version of The Birdcage, and it's full of funny stories about John and his family, friends and TV-shows/movies/musicals he's worked in. So a lot of famous people, and a lot with the funniness. I've been watching Buffy again, please forgive the talk. My favourite bits were of course the bits about Doctor Who and Torchwood, as I'm a fan of both. But the rest was all good, and I got really distracted now looking for a nice YouTube vid to add here. So John's in Desperate Housewives as well! Nice! Killing old ladies... uh.
"Oh yes, I did see my life flash before me during an evening performance of Robin Hood at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2008, and all I kept repeating to myself was, 'Please don't let me die in tights.'"
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