Maybe someday

I finally finished a book this week!

Treasure Island is a classic classic adventure. There's the young boy, living a life of drudgery helping is mum run an inn when suddenly Pirates! Gold! Guns! Death! Young Jim Hawkins gets swept up into this fantastic world were everyone talks funny and wears a pistol.

John Silver, the villain(?) of the piece is a challenge to understand. He seems to change his mind with every new plot development, alternately trying to kill or befriend Jim. Maybe he is just channeling his essential pirateness?

This book is the most piratey thing you will ever read. There is, at times, incomprehensible pirate lingo, parrots on shoulders that squawk 'pieces of eight', rum, treasure maps where x marks the spot, the black spot and lots of "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum".  I guess because this is the first popular pirate novel, it has set the stereotype for everything else to come.

I have to confess, I am a real sucker for classic adventure books. I really enjoyed Treasure Island, but not as much as the more sciency adventures, like Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

But it's an easy read and great fun, I'd recommend it.

I went to see The Sapphires at the movies on Friday. I was kinda dubious, but it was actually a really good film. The film follows four Aboriginal women who go to Vietnam to entertain the US troops during the Vietnam War. There was lots of humanity in the characters and the action at the end was genuinely scary, maybe because the start of the film was so light and carefree. The music was excellent and all the female leads are just stunning.

I'd recommend it. :)

Welcome to my new DW! This is all shiny and new and I'm still trying to work out where I fit in this sprawling, diverse metropolis that is DreamWidth.

Please feel free to leave comments, I'd love to meet new people. :)