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Post by Yanti on Feb 10, 2010 18:12:46 GMT -5
A friend of mine just said she does not find anybody to go watch with her for a second time. So I will be the "sorry victim" *g*.
I also ordered a book from amazon called "The Survival Guide...etc." which seems interesting. Then came across "The Field Guide..." - similar cover, similar price, same author. Does anybody know what the difference is between those? In the content I mean, because from the descriptions I could not really make it out. Seemed more or less the same, with just different label?!
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Post by • Aerys • on Feb 11, 2010 23:02:10 GMT -5
Ooh I really want to get that book! I saw it in the store a few days ago...I might order it off Amazon. Reference for the site would be nice  Also earlier I read about this movie theater in Korea that was playing Avatar in "4D". I've been in these types of things before, where the seats move and they blow air and stuff on you...sounds like it'd be interesting. I'd settle for 3D IMAX though. |
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Post by Yanti on Feb 13, 2010 11:27:17 GMT -5
Well, I think 3 is enough "D's" for me. I already get sometimes disoriented there. ;D To the book. Great! It arrived just in time for week-end so I had a first quick browse through it. It is like a sort of notebook/scrapbook thing, paperback, colorful and with lots of pics. First impression is good. Interesting idea. Full title(s) is: "James Cameron's AVATAR An Activist Survival Guide / A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora" Authors: Maria Wilhelm and Dirk Mathison Guess the title already suggests that it is not a nice sort of easy novel you read through, but rather something you open up somewhere and start browsing. Or else you can look up specific information on the subject "Pandora". It starts of with a nice introduction, a little story about an activist, who collected the stuff together with some scientists "under danger to their lives". Then the person goes on about how destroyed the earth is, and how some Pandoran plants and animals could help detoxicate and purify it and also to feed the population that now lives on algae (what a future to look forward too  ) Anyhow, not the greatest prose but sort of nice and in a way amusing intro. Then it continues like an encyclopedia with Pandora itself, its fauna, flora, people, their culture, beliefs, some everyday items, but also RDA equipment and armament. It gives brief but quite good explanations and is full with lots of pictures and illustrations. It is neatly structured so you should even find specific things that interest you. Finally you also get a Na'vi - English dictionary part at the back. So I quite like it so far and think it was worth the 12,-- or 13,-- Euros/Dollars Amazon takes for it. This is a personal view though and I hope nobody will be disappointed if you make up your minds to get it. I suspect you might find all that stuff on the net if you look for it, but I like stuff printed and neatly bound together. So I just love to have a book. |
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Post by • Aerys • on Feb 14, 2010 10:10:22 GMT -5
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Totally the plot of this board! At this point, in any case. Yeah I should really get this thing, since Chris is a botanist and it has all these detailed descriptions of plants in the text. I saw it at Barnes and Noble but they wanted twenty for it, when I can get it for about 12 bucks off of Amazon. AKA not worth it ><.
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Post by Yanti on Feb 14, 2010 13:36:10 GMT -5
Well if you need some detailed info urgently, I can look it up and post/pm it to you. |
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