hooray, you got around to reading it! in some way i consider it to be pinnacle of their writing, style- and, mm, idea-wise. it's actually an opening part of the nominal trilogy - after it goes "digital", a cyberpunk/mmorpg horror thriller, and then "migrant", portal sci-fi that happens, the best i can figure it out, in world that sasha creates in her final exam. they're... kind of more fucked up than opening is, and also much more vague.
(one of the best things of vita nostra is that it does the mundane perfectly - the dorm life, the fussy inexplicable professors, the domesticity, the petty squabbles, the holidays - you can fit it exactly into your experience, and from under it horror rises and swallows you up. i imagine this is how reading king's novels goes for american readers).
it's also the first i hear the movie! at once good and terrible news, because if there's anybody less suited to making this movie than bekbambetov of many explosions and clip editing, i'll be hard-pressed to find. but we shall see, i guess.
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Date: 2013-07-28 11:09 am (UTC)(one of the best things of vita nostra is that it does the mundane perfectly - the dorm life, the fussy inexplicable professors, the domesticity, the petty squabbles, the holidays - you can fit it exactly into your experience, and from under it horror rises and swallows you up. i imagine this is how reading king's novels goes for american readers).
it's also the first i hear the movie! at once good and terrible news, because if there's anybody less suited to making this movie than bekbambetov of many explosions and clip editing, i'll be hard-pressed to find. but we shall see, i guess.