King Kong, if I can stand walking in the cold. I mean to.
I saw the original last week for the first time. The first twenty minutes or so are from a movie no one would ever bother to remember. But the last hour, paced no differently than a modern action blockbuster, achieves a weird, fever-like, almost hallucinogenic quality. I was completely absorbed by it.
Interesting to see what Peter Jackson needs three hours to do what the original manages in ninety minutes.
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Glad the books are arriving for everyone. Again, sorry for the delay.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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