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We have a thread on Night Watch as a film, and also a thread on Day Watch, but I am jiggered if I can find anything in B, C&W with regard to Lukyanenko's Watch tetralogy, so I thought now was as good a time as any to start one.
For details, you can start here, and work your way in. Day Watch is being released in cinemas in Britain on October 5th, apparently, and the DVD comes out in America on October 31st, but it's not, to my knowledge, getting much press.
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On a personal level, I'm fascinated by the novels, most prevalently the structure and phrasing that seems to come out in the translation. I love the charicterisation of Anton Gorodetsky in the books, and I think the transition to film hasn't been done badly so far.
In terms of literary style, it feels to me almost like a clean read - something like, to me, the way Death and the Penguin reads, although that feels like a too obvious comparison, somehow.
Oh, and "Dusk Watch" is now "Twilight Watch", apparently. Try not to pay any mind to the cover quotes referring to a "J K Rowling, Russian Style".
Is anyone else a fan of this series? Are there any other recommendations re: the author's other works? And does anyone know when Final Watch is being translated? |
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