It starts off as this elegant comedy about Oxford life and teddy bears and so on, and then quickly gets into deeper, darker waters. I actually didn't finish reading it because at the time I was in the mood for the former and not the latter
:) Yeah. I commented to Sonic about the duality of the film that I hadn't read the book, but from what else I'd read, I'd bet large amounts of money that it was inspired directly from it, not any sort of artefact of the adaption :)
On the other hand, I have to wonder, is it _actually_ like that, or in ten years time would I see the second half as ironically witty as I see the first half now, but don't think think I would have done ten years ago? I suspect not, but I can't know for sure.
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Date: 2008-10-06 11:57 pm (UTC):) Yeah. I commented to Sonic about the duality of the film that I hadn't read the book, but from what else I'd read, I'd bet large amounts of money that it was inspired directly from it, not any sort of artefact of the adaption :)
On the other hand, I have to wonder, is it _actually_ like that, or in ten years time would I see the second half as ironically witty as I see the first half now, but don't think think I would have done ten years ago? I suspect not, but I can't know for sure.