The Cider House Rules

Craig is reading The Cider House Rules by John Irving:

“… a novel that deals with the abortion issue. As with most books that have been made into movies, the book is much better than the film. I recommend the book. The movie was good too and if you’ve already seen the movie, the book is very different so you can still read it!”

I’ve read the book a few years ago and recently watched the movie. I was surprised that I couldn’t remember the story as well as I thought – until I heard that the story in the book is quite different from the one in the film! I liked the film better, too, by the way.

I recommend other books by John Irving, too. I especially enjoyed A son of the circus and A prayer to Owen Meany (but I haven’t read all of his books yet).

Hiatus

Hal announced that blivet is going on hiatus because he has to write his thesis and the weblog tends to distract him too much. I can understand that very well because I’m in a similar situation. My deadline is still far away (mid-March 2001), but when it comes closer I won’t be able to update as much as I do now, I guess.

Hal, I’ll miss your updates!

Boom!

After I started the computer this morning and edited a text in BBEdit, the machine crashed so bad that the built-in tools of MacOS couldn’t repair it. So André and I had to make backup copies of important files and format the hard drive and install a new system.

This took so much time, I guess I won’t get to write my Expo report today since I’ve got to work on my thesis, too. Tomorrow, hopefully…

I’m back!

I just returned from Hanover… exhausted and tired.

I spent the weekend with my sister, Katrin. We went to the movies on Friday night and watched Im Juli (German movie), which we enjoyed very much. – Obwohl der Film zugegebermaßen recht viele Zufälle hatte… aber der Tip war gut, Jörg.

On Saturday, my sister and I visited Gabi and Swen, two friends of mine. (André and I went to their wedding party in August.)

And yesterday, I went to the Expo. I had an afternoon ticket, valid from 3 p.m., and I had to leave the Expo at 7:30 p.m. in order to catch the last train to Bonn, but I managed to see quite a few interesting pavillions. I avoided all the crowded ones, so I didn’t get to see the pavillion of the Netherlands (which I really wanted to see!), but the less crowded ones were interesting as well. Now I’m off to bed. Expect pictures tomorrow – um, I mean, later today!