Day like all the others though.
Well not, I had a cake and good coffee and smoothies for breakfast, long breakfast.
Before this, visited Purnu on the opening day. Nice artworks there. Some of them I really really liked. But more important was to see M and A and T.
Been reading a lot, I guess. Denise gave me book by Robert Rankin, “knees up mother earth”. Somebody had said to her that Rankin is better than Pratchett. With the knowledge of one book, I disagree, but I think I’ll read him more. After all, I’ve read a load of pratchett’s books, so I better give Rankin more chances. And this of course means that the book wasnt’ bad, there was a couple of times that I actually laughed.
After that I took Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game which is a classic that I didn’t know and no wonder, the book is good. It was nice to find something, what to me looks like appriciation or hail to Le Guin. There is ansible in the book and everyone who has read Ursula Le Guin knows that ansible was invented by Shevek. Well that’s just a small side note. Anyway Ender’s game is a good book although… there are some problems that are already criticized so why bother to go there. Visit wikipedia to have more knowledge about the criticism. Why it is a good book? Why book is good? Tell me? All the time reading I had problems with Ender’s age though. Too young, too young. After Ender’s Game I read “songmaster” also a book by OSC. It’s quite much like EG. The main character is very talented and very young and very much like adult already in the age of 3-10. I think that reading songmaster straigh after EG was a mistake, although the case would have been same other way around. Books are in many ways so similar that reading one just before the other takes away off the effect somehow. Still it’s a good book also, beautiful even on some cases. Both books contain the same problem of innocent violence or innocent bad? In both books the main characters kill without it being really their own fault, in both books the main character is manipulated and lied and driven into loneliness and despair and in both books the ending is, if not happy, at least hopefully sad. Very similar.
Next I though that I’ll start Frank Herbert’s Dune. I’ve read it in finnish a long time ago, so now I’ll read it in english. It’s nice to stay in SF genre for a while.
What I’m really craving is to get photos back to these tales again, but as long as my iMac stays in the box I can’t help it.
It’s interesting that net connection in Helsinki, which is the capital, is more expensive than connection in Oku. Funny I would have though it would be other way around.
I was almost offered a job, well I was offered to go to interview, but I couldn’t. If I would have got the job, it would be really hard to get back to art and dance after it.
Need a dancer? Anyone?