Comments on: Review of Lauren Beukes’ Novel Zoo City. https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/#comment-1132 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:41:50 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/#comment-1132 They made a film of the first book, The Northern Lights, and called it The Golden Compass. Not very good. Nicole Kidman starred and it became more about her minor character in the book than the kids. Another reason why I dislike her as an actress – she was in a terrible remake of the Stepford Wives and a woeful remake of Invasion of The Body Snatchers. I plan to look up other books of Beukes, her most recent has time-travel in it. It's strange, but the book never says whether Zinni is black, her boyfriend is. I pictured her as white, but I never take much notice of author descriptions. Beukes is white – I saw her at the Melbourne Writer's Festival.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/#comment-1131 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 20:39:02 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/#comment-1131 Not a fan of her either. Pity when ego's get in the way of the story.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/#comment-1133 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:23:44 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-lauren-beukes-novel-zoo-city/#comment-1133 Sounds pretty good though the comparisons are hard to ignore.
Didnt they make a film out of Dark Materials? They never made the rest did they… a shame as I thought Pullman's writing was very good.

South Africa is a rich source of drama. Sounds intriguing.

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