stranger than fiction & travels with charley
i just watched "stranger than fiction" at cineleisure. i really liked it...will ferrell did a great job in the acting department, portraying main character harold crick, as did dustin hoffman (as professor hilbert) and emma thomson (as the author, karen eiffel)...
the only quirk i had was how easy it was for maggie gyllenhaal (ana pascal) to change her mind about mr. ferrell aka IRS taxman...what with despising his very presence one day, and then sleeping with him the next? hmmm...from what i know, girls are pretty adamant about the first impressions thing...but then again, it's all fiction (and plus, i just remembered that girls are also pretty fickle-minded...haha). =)
sometimes i feel as if my life were written in a book by someone too...he (or she) probably had a really wild imagination, coupled with a wicked sense of humour, and not to mention, an eye for the tearjerker. it's been a pretty good story so far though, if you ask me...as long as it's not stephen king building up his plot. haha.
but seriously speaking...there are many books that i've read so far which i can really relate my life to...but one that i wanna share with you all is "travels with charley in search of america" by john steinbeck (famous for "grapes of wrath" and "of mice and men").
it's a true story based in 1960 about the author's travels across the united states with his blue poodle named charley. the story not only has a lot adventures, but also many quotable quotes providing food for thought:
"for how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?"
"i have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. i've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."
"a sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ."
"one goes, not to much to see, but to tell afterward."
superb. the reason why i can relate this book to my life is because i've really been on a journey...through places and through minds. it's wonderful to be alive. cheers. =)
(p.s. - go and watch stranger than fiction.)
(p.p.s. - go and read travels with charley.)
the only quirk i had was how easy it was for maggie gyllenhaal (ana pascal) to change her mind about mr. ferrell aka IRS taxman...what with despising his very presence one day, and then sleeping with him the next? hmmm...from what i know, girls are pretty adamant about the first impressions thing...but then again, it's all fiction (and plus, i just remembered that girls are also pretty fickle-minded...haha). =)
sometimes i feel as if my life were written in a book by someone too...he (or she) probably had a really wild imagination, coupled with a wicked sense of humour, and not to mention, an eye for the tearjerker. it's been a pretty good story so far though, if you ask me...as long as it's not stephen king building up his plot. haha.
but seriously speaking...there are many books that i've read so far which i can really relate my life to...but one that i wanna share with you all is "travels with charley in search of america" by john steinbeck (famous for "grapes of wrath" and "of mice and men").
it's a true story based in 1960 about the author's travels across the united states with his blue poodle named charley. the story not only has a lot adventures, but also many quotable quotes providing food for thought:
"for how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?"
"i have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. i've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."
"a sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ."
"one goes, not to much to see, but to tell afterward."
superb. the reason why i can relate this book to my life is because i've really been on a journey...through places and through minds. it's wonderful to be alive. cheers. =)
(p.s. - go and watch stranger than fiction.)
(p.p.s. - go and read travels with charley.)
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