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Sat, Oct. 11th, 2003 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterExtremely tired from job.
Funny thing I saw during lunch -- this guy, with white blond hair, dressed in a long leather jacket, black jeans and black shoes. First thought: Spike! Hee.
Funny books I ran into -- Jumping for Health/Joy/I forgot: How to use gravity to improve your life. I kid you not.
Also sticking my head in the sand and pretending the whole Spike vs. Angel thing is not continuing. Because honestly, I like 'em both.
The boy and I are playing Final Fantasy X right now, a game I can actually play because it doesn't matter that I have no hand-eye coordination. I can even do the fight stuff because it's all turn based and I can take as long as I want to make a character do something. I also mercilessly make fun of the main character, because honestly, he's as dumb as a brick. I like Lulu right now, despite the horribly silly name, mostly because she looks evil, casts magic, and wears a long black dress. Hey, it's a computer game.. I'm not supposed to be deep about it!
Still looking for chewy books to read... don't feel like romance fluff as of now. Picked up Tad Williams' War of the Flowers and Brust and Emma Bull's Freedom and Necessity from the bookstore (i.e. borrowed, not bought), and am working my way through them. Kind of scared to read the Williams book because he does the gore and scariness. Plus, the Brust and Bull book is Victorian epistolary (sp) and horribly fun so far.
Funny thing I saw during lunch -- this guy, with white blond hair, dressed in a long leather jacket, black jeans and black shoes. First thought: Spike! Hee.
Funny books I ran into -- Jumping for Health/Joy/I forgot: How to use gravity to improve your life. I kid you not.
Also sticking my head in the sand and pretending the whole Spike vs. Angel thing is not continuing. Because honestly, I like 'em both.
The boy and I are playing Final Fantasy X right now, a game I can actually play because it doesn't matter that I have no hand-eye coordination. I can even do the fight stuff because it's all turn based and I can take as long as I want to make a character do something. I also mercilessly make fun of the main character, because honestly, he's as dumb as a brick. I like Lulu right now, despite the horribly silly name, mostly because she looks evil, casts magic, and wears a long black dress. Hey, it's a computer game.. I'm not supposed to be deep about it!
Still looking for chewy books to read... don't feel like romance fluff as of now. Picked up Tad Williams' War of the Flowers and Brust and Emma Bull's Freedom and Necessity from the bookstore (i.e. borrowed, not bought), and am working my way through them. Kind of scared to read the Williams book because he does the gore and scariness. Plus, the Brust and Bull book is Victorian epistolary (sp) and horribly fun so far.
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Tue, Oct. 14th, 2003 03:03 am (UTC)I think I'll be getting into War after Freedon and Necessity, because right now, a dip into Victorian England feels much more enjoyable than urban fantasy... change of pace from Otherland, which was my last big read.
Wurts... oo, are her individual books any good? I've only read the Daughter of the Empire trilogy she did with Feist.
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Tue, Oct. 14th, 2003 11:41 am (UTC)Wurts - I haven't ever really liked the stuff she did with Feist. Then again, I don't think Feist is all that great himself :P. Her Wars of Light and Dark series is very....dense. Although it's not exactly new territory as far as the storyline (half-brothers who fight against each other), she builds worlds with the same type of depth as CJ Cherryh and she makes sympathetic, well-rounded characters. Even though I didn't like Lysander, she gave him enough character-building that I could understand his mindset.
You may also want to take a look at Karin Lowachee's Warchild. It's the novel that won the Warner First Aspect competition after Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring. There are some obvious "first novel aspects" to it - I think she takes too long to reveal part of the character's past when you've pretty much been able to guess it - but her alien society is also along the lines of Cherryh, and the main protagonist (Jos) is set up similar to Ender's Game.
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Wed, Oct. 15th, 2003 02:31 am (UTC)Someday I will also finally have to finish Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy, which has been sitting on my shelf for about two years now, sigh.
It's strange rereading some of the first scifi/fantasy books I read, like the Empire series... The last time I read Feist I just couldn't anymore, sadly, and the Empire series isn't holding up too well either. Too much orientalism for me, and my mind, tainted by too many EAS classes, has started debating politics and how the books reflect attitudes toward Japan/Asia too much for it to be the escapism it used to be.