Basically, there will be an eye that opens, followed by some really cryptic shiznatt that no one understands, Jack/Sawyer and Kate will stare at each other mournfully through some prison bars, Sayid may or may not build something, and Locke may or may not get back his faith in the island. Oh, and what about the others - are they marooned Dharmites stuck on the island still conducting their own mad experiments - who knows? But I effin' love this show!!!!
Also, the (Scotiabank) Giller prize finalists were announced today in Toronto. Unfortch, I have not had time to do much reading this year, but will have to get to it before the Winner is announced. They are, as follows:
Rawi Hage - De Niro's Game
Toronto's own Vincent Lam - Bloodletting and Other Cures
Pascale Quiviger - The Perfect Circle
Gaetan Soucy - The Immaculate Conception
Carol Windley - Home Schooling
Although I'm still (slowly) getting through the Undomestic Goddess, I hope to be onto De Niro's Game shortly, as Hage's novel sounds so good, here is the synopsis from the publisher, House of Anansi Press:
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
In Rawi Hage's astonishing and unforgettable novel, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in wartorn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: Obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. Meanwhile, George builds his power in the underworld of the city and embraces a life of military service, crime for profit, killing, and drugs.
Told in the voice of Bassam, De Niro's Game is a beautiful, explosive portrait of a contemporary young man shaped by a lifelong experience of war.
Rawi Hage brilliantly fuses vivid, jump-cut cinematic imagery with the measured strength and beauty of Arabic poetry. His style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its razor-sharp edges surprise and cut deeply. A powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after. "
NB: The Scotiabank Giller prize will be handed out by a panel jury including former Governor-General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson and authors Alice Munro and Michael Winter at a gala on November 7.
