Lucy‘s blog

Finally! The Hobbit is coming! This is my favorite book forever! He's a prequel to the Lord of the Ring (in fact I've read all the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion) and I really have a lot to say.   Reading this book is also a tribute to my adventurous youth and adult pursuit of home. In my heart, I always keep a firm belief of home (Lonely Mountain) and believe that I can definitely return to Lonely Mountain again. Though the Lonely Mountain has no treasure.   I think The Hobbit is really wonderful, his world view is really grand. First the dwarves, elves, hobbits, and orcs, who make up an entire middle Earth community. I think the Hobbit is the easiest of the Lord of the Rings stories because he tells the adventures of Bilbo Baggins the Lord, and the story of a dwarf who grows from a coward to a man and a warrior. When you finish reading all the books, you will find that the Hobbit is like the history of Middle Earth.   Bilbo's greatest characteristic was kindness,

I like Terry Pratchett in particular. He is a writer of great imagination and good humor. His work is at the same time deeply satirical about human nature. There's a lot of humor in the details of the background. First of all, I think his series of books are very interesting. His background is a world with a round sky and a place, supported by several giant elephants who step on the back of a giant turtle. The world inside is medieval, modern science and magic, and there is a hot air balloon wizard. This is the world I dream of!   In a story that is naive to the point of seriousness, Pratchett confronts young people with questions about human existence that can even be chilling.   I haven't finished reading Equal (I had too much homework and I was an international student so it seems to be more usual than my native language) but I used to look at most of them, like Mort and Reaper Man. In most novels, there is Death, a thin man with a scythe, shining blue eyes, laughing and sco

Harry Potter is such a classic. Of course I have read all his series. And I read it again the other day. It was really nice. Generally speaking, Harry Potter has two interwoven narrative threads, one is Harry Potter's study and life experience at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the other is harry's involvement in the struggle between good and evil as he grows up. I think Rowling’s worldview has a direct connection to our contemporary society, and many of the locations in the story, such as King's Cross station and the Bar in Dragon Alley, are directly related. "Wizards" and "Muggles," "Fantastic Beasts" and "Ordinary Animals" can all be seen mixing in the same space-time. This kind of realism and fantasy mixed together, so Harry's experience in school makes me really envy, because it means that the magic in the story and the reality also have something in common, such as attending classes, taking exams, doing homew

I recently finished watching "Interview with the Vampire," and in Annise Rice's work, vampires have more of a deeper humanity. They are no longer afraid of crosses and holy water, garlic is ridiculous, and in Anne Rice's scenario, vampires' only enemies are fire and sunlight. They only kill Evil Doer, and constantly review and reflect on themselves. This is the age of vampire humanity. In her books, the vampire image has a fuller character emotion and more erotic elements. This should be a big change for vampires, since previous vampires have been portrayed as scary, and "Interview with the Vampire" has created a charismatic and powerful vampire with desperation and untouchable love. It suddenly reminded me of a movie I saw a long time ago called Dracula, starring Gary Oldman, whom I have loved for years. The vampire in the film is a good interpretation of Anne's work, and he also describes a vampire full of charm and sex. I actually fin

I have seen the film "annihilation" several times, and I especially like its film. I think its main idea is that death is not really death, but is presented to another organism through the refraction, replication, characteristics and traits of DNA. I remember playing a game on Steam once that was similar to the horror genre of new future. Much like annihilation, the protagonist is also searching for an unsolved mystery about "light." I think the reason why the book (or the movie) is so impressive is that it has gone beyond human cognition and thinking. I would be afraid of this supernatural thing, just like the Valley of Fear theory, this kind of object that does not exist in reality will make people become afraid. Annihilation binds humanity and science fiction together, and it becomes a perfect work. I still remember the film in which one of the explorers turns into a vegetative state. It was full of romance, organic, scientific and unsettling, and the collision b

I do find  A Wild Sheep Chase   a little bit obscure. I remember it was at junior high school that I read this book for the first time. I couldn ’ t progress any more in understanding the plot of the book until I read through it during my second try recently.   In my view, the sheep in the story symbolizes the modernization unscrupulously driven by the then Japanese government. With its enormously relentless aggression and expansion, the sheep has become an evil and dark incarnate of the Japanese militarism.   However, one point worth a special mention is that I really appreciate the author ’ s way of expressing loneliness, which keeps me aware of how great it is to be  “ mediocre ”   and how glorious the loneliness coming in the wake of this kind of  “ mediocrity”   is. The first-person protagonist in the book is just like an onlooker watching with equanimity the rollout of the whole story.   The sheep seems to be endowed with some certain psychically immortal divinity throughout the

I read "Frankenstein ”  in junior high school, and after that, with the accumulation of my knowledge, I always treated it as a problem of philosophy of science and technology. That is, human beings make machines, but they can't control them. Instead, they are recriminated by machines  . It wasn't until recently that I read the full edition that I realized the book is not just about science and technology. Frankenstein originally made the weirdo with great effort just out of his deep love for the beauty of life. But he found that the life was so ugly that he could not accept it. As a matter of fact, the weirdo was originally ugly in appearance, not evil in heart. However, his ugliness made people  abominate him very much and he was pushed step by step onto the road of revenge on society... Finally, Frankenstein could only become the victim of the evil consequence of his creation. In fact, how many people are there finding that the result is what they wish after