reading and stuff
Aug. 20th, 2009 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's warm here again, but in a good way -- I can actually be in my house, for instance. But washing dishes makes me sweat like a pig. I mean, perspire. Whatever. It's just not pleasant. ropo will be here in 4 days! Thank goodness my mother was here and did all that cleaning ... now there's actually surface areas and the guest room is habitable.
WTF, Word Twist isn't working. Helloooooo, get ON that, Facebook! Some of us do nothing on your site but play that game! (Okay, it's back. Um, did you know that "titbit" is a word? Apparently it's just like tidbit. And here I thought BDSM was involved.)
Now that I've discovered the library, I've been trying out a genre that usually doesn't appeal to me -- fantasy. That may sound strange since this journal was created for the sole purpose of involvement in HP fandom, and of course HP is totally fantasy. But it's an exception. I can count on one hand the fantasy novels I've enjoyed -- HP, Good Omens, and Lord of the Rings (and then, not even the books, just the movies ... I tried reading LotR but when I was on page like 220 and the hobbits were STILL in the Shire I gave up). Most just seem rather silly. Or boring, because they're so often convoluted, as they tend to just toss you into the world (unlike HP, in which you discover that world along with Harry) and everyone has bizarre names and there's always a map of that particular world/geography, and more often than not there's some kind of Wall, which as far as I can tell is a totally overused plot device that serves to differentiate between a contained world of magic and the rest of the world.
Anyway. I've tried a number of fantasy books and haven't been able to get into any of them. Until I got to The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. I'm cautiously optimistic as so far, it's been promising. The names aren't too weird, the geography isn't very important yet, and I like the style of writing (it's rather funny). A friend has told me to try the series A Song of Fire and Ice (I'm proud of myself that I didn't mention the D/G connection; he would have been scared and appalled), as it's more approachable, I guess, not being "high fantasy with dancing elves and shit."
There's another genre that I'm not into, but don't anticipate ever trying to get into it -- westerns.
Just watched the two Anne of Green Gables movies (I ignore the third). I weep like a baby. every. time.
P.S. Oh yeah, I might have accidentally run the best scam ever! Except it's not really a scam, it's totally legit. It's just kind of working the system. Only I don't know if I actually did or not and won't know until like a couple weeks from now, but this is a reminder to myself to check later.
ropo will be here in 4 days! Thank goodness my mother was here and did all that cleaning ... now there's actually surface areas and the guest room is habitable.WTF, Word Twist isn't working. Helloooooo, get ON that, Facebook! Some of us do nothing on your site but play that game! (Okay, it's back. Um, did you know that "titbit" is a word? Apparently it's just like tidbit. And here I thought BDSM was involved.)
Now that I've discovered the library, I've been trying out a genre that usually doesn't appeal to me -- fantasy. That may sound strange since this journal was created for the sole purpose of involvement in HP fandom, and of course HP is totally fantasy. But it's an exception. I can count on one hand the fantasy novels I've enjoyed -- HP, Good Omens, and Lord of the Rings (and then, not even the books, just the movies ... I tried reading LotR but when I was on page like 220 and the hobbits were STILL in the Shire I gave up). Most just seem rather silly. Or boring, because they're so often convoluted, as they tend to just toss you into the world (unlike HP, in which you discover that world along with Harry) and everyone has bizarre names and there's always a map of that particular world/geography, and more often than not there's some kind of Wall, which as far as I can tell is a totally overused plot device that serves to differentiate between a contained world of magic and the rest of the world.
Anyway. I've tried a number of fantasy books and haven't been able to get into any of them. Until I got to The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. I'm cautiously optimistic as so far, it's been promising. The names aren't too weird, the geography isn't very important yet, and I like the style of writing (it's rather funny). A friend has told me to try the series A Song of Fire and Ice (I'm proud of myself that I didn't mention the D/G connection; he would have been scared and appalled), as it's more approachable, I guess, not being "high fantasy with dancing elves and shit."
There's another genre that I'm not into, but don't anticipate ever trying to get into it -- westerns.
Just watched the two Anne of Green Gables movies (I ignore the third). I weep like a baby. every. time.
P.S. Oh yeah, I might have accidentally run the best scam ever! Except it's not really a scam, it's totally legit. It's just kind of working the system. Only I don't know if I actually did or not and won't know until like a couple weeks from now, but this is a reminder to myself to check later.
