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[Plynkes]

Speaking as a Tennis fan, and in the interests of journalistic balance (I don't want to upset anyone, and I know that there is at least one Serbian LAFer), I would just like to point out that Serbia does not only export assassins and evil geniuses.

Good things come out of Serbia, too...

[Rhoderic]

(...) Barnum hopes to defeat the evil Nikola Tesla.

What´s all this Tesla-bashing! You never see Edison as the evil genius

Watch "The Prestige", then. Edison never appears in it, but his croonies look evil enough, harassing David Bowie's Tesla, who in turn comes across as the misunderstood genius.

[Westfalia Chris]

(...)
Good things come out of Serbia, too...

Positively electrifying, old chap. :love:

[PeteMurray]

Sorry what? I wasn't listening.

My copy of Legends of the High Seas arrived yesterday.

[twrchtrwyth]

(...) Barnum hopes to defeat the evil Nikola Tesla.

What´s all this Tesla-bashing! You never see Edison as the evil genius

Watch "The Prestige", then. Edison never appears in it, but his croonies look evil enough, harassing David Bowie's Tesla, who in turn comes across as the misunderstood genius.

So the recent Prestige movie is a re-make then? Well, I never knew that!

[Plynkes]

I don't believe it is a remake. And I can't see where anybody here said that it was except you.  :

[twrchtrwyth]

I don't believe it is a remake. And I can't see where anybody here said that it was except you.  :

Because David Bowie wasn't in the one I saw. :

[Plynkes]

Well that's odd, because he's in the cast list  for it, though I have yet to see it myself.

Here's a pic of him in character:



Perhaps you just didn't recognise him?

[JollyBob]

Wow, maybe they disappeared him!  

[Rhoderic]

I'll admit, when watching the movie I didn't connect the dots either, until the credits started rolling. I kept thinking the actor was someone familiar though, and someone I wasn't used to seeing on the big screen at that. If the name hadn't been in the credits I'd have never guessed "David Bowie" in a million years.

twrchtrwyth: It's a long shot, but maybe you confused The Prestige with The Illusionist? Both came along at the same time and had similar themes of performing wizards in the late 19th or early 20th century. Storylines were different enough, though (and of course, Tesla was only in one of them).

[Aaron]

No, that's clearly not David Bowie. It's Ziggy Stardust. I'm told they are frequently confused.

[twrchtrwyth]

I'll admit, when watching the movie I didn't connect the dots either, until the credits started rolling. I kept thinking the actor was someone familiar though, and someone I wasn't used to seeing on the big screen at that. If the name hadn't been in the credits I'd have never guessed "David Bowie" in a million years.

twrchtrwyth: It's a long shot, but maybe you confused The Prestige with The Illusionist? Both came along at the same time and had similar themes of performing wizards in the late 19th or early 20th century. Storylines were different enough, though (and of course, Tesla was only in one of them).

Not such a long shot, that's exactly what I've done. :oops:

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Richard Brautigan, one of the greatest American novelists.

"A Confederate General from Big Sur" The story takes place in the year 1957. A man named Lee Mellon believes he is a descendent from a Confederate general that was originally from Big Sur. Mellon seeks the truth of his own modern day war against the status quo of the Union states. The moral of the story is the domination of mind over reality.

"Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942" The novel takes place in San Francisco, California in 1942, and is about a private eye detective named C. Card. Nobody has heard of C. Card but he was the only detective "available. Sam Spade was in Istanbul, Turkey. Philip Marlowe another detective is in Little Fawn Lake, a place in the Aluetian Islands in Alaska trying to solve the disappearance of Mrs. Derace Kingsley. And Lew Archer is in the army. Only C. Card is left to solve this case. C. Card has to solve the murder of a San Francisco woman. At the scene of the crime, C. Card finds some bullets and an unloaded gun. While trying to solve the case, he starts to day dream about a place Babylon and eventually loses track of the case to dream about Babylon.

"The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western" Taking place in eastern Oregon in 1902, the story concerns a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen (Cameron and Greer) hired by one Miss Hawkline to hunt down and destroy the supposed "monster" living in the "ice caves" beneath her house. Miss Hawkline and her servant/sister/other self (also called "Miss Hawkline") believe the monster to have killed their father, a scientist who disappeared while hard at work in his basement laboratory on a project only referred to as "The Chemicals," which would, he claimed, if perfected, be a great boon to the human race.

[Le matou rouge]

You can't get wrong with Brautigan ; my favourite being So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away  
Whata chance you had to read them for the first time !

Meow,
Matt

[Aaron]

I've been rediscovering my love for Leonardo Sciascia's fiction thanks to a kind gift from my wife. Inspiring in a pulpy/gangster way I suppose not to mention timely considering all of the mafia busts lately. I breezed through The Day of the Owl and To Each His Own and am now working my way through a short story anthology.Highly recommended!

I have heard Andrea Camilerri has been translated into english now, so I may have to check him out.