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Today's book-type discovery: a new translation of a novel I hadn't even known Jules Verne wrote. The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), 1883. It appears to be non-genre, a romance, and to involve some of the same geography as Powell and Pressburger's "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945) This should be interesting.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

How weird. I was just thinking about Jules Verne tonight, and, well... I almost never think about Jules Verne. But I was thinking about Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Huh. Well. Enjoy!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'd never heard of that one either, although admittedly I'm no great follower of Verne, beyond the standard childhood classic readings.

Luath publish some interesting books. I hope you enjoy this one.

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

Hadn't known there were new translations going on. I'll have a gander. I liked a lot of his mystery and thriller stuff, like Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar.

Martin Paz is the only romance of his that I remember reading.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Perk me right up! Please let us know what you think of the Verne. I loved I Know Where I'm Going! and Skye and the Hebrides are places I've long longed for. I spent the night on Skye during a far-too-brief December sojourn in Scotland in 2003 and was very moved, had a deeply trance-forming walk the next morning that I later wrote of in an essay on ancestral memory for Black Clock 4. Have you been there? Are there other works (of art or of explication) about that region of the world that you are particularly fond of? I've not yet properly searched out such works, but will mention the presence of a lovely, as yet unread book on my shelves called Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides (HarperCollins, 2006), written and illustrated (quite beautifully) by David Yeadon, which I strongly suspect I will love when at last I turn to it.

Please forgive my delay in answering your question about Inception; the work on Little, Big has been particularly intense in recent weeks, and the heat has been a keen thief of sleep.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Now that is an interesting thing.

I woke up this morning with the title "The Stockholm Knife Fight" in my head and the notion that it features fan death, which is something, AFAIK, uniquely Korean.