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 Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:39 am
Lt. Brookman Just now wrapped up on the Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. It's a darkly comic western novel about Charlie and Eli Sisters, two brothers who do the dirty work for a man named the Commodore. Their latest job is to get rid of a prospector by the name of Hermann Kermit Warm. All in all, a fine read, presented in first person and made up of really short chapters mostly spanning just three pages, making it feel like you're reading a script for a movie on some level. It is a bit odd and absurd at several points, but I guess that's part of the way the story is told. Well worth picking up if in need of something light to read. It read like a movie script, if that makes any sense. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:32 am
Lady Blodwynn Lt. Brookman Just now wrapped up on the Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. It's a darkly comic western novel about Charlie and Eli Sisters, two brothers who do the dirty work for a man named the Commodore. Their latest job is to get rid of a prospector by the name of Hermann Kermit Warm. All in all, a fine read, presented in first person and made up of really short chapters mostly spanning just three pages, making it feel like you're reading a script for a movie on some level. It is a bit odd and absurd at several points, but I guess that's part of the way the story is told. Well worth picking up if in need of something light to read. It read like a movie script, if that makes any sense. sweatdrop I guess it does in some way.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:34 am
Still haven't read the making of the Empire Strikes Back, I'm saving it for a better moment. Instead I've read "Carte Blanche" a James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver. It's another reboot so to say, putting Bond in the current day and age with all the red tape and whatnot. It was an okay read, bit low on the action, but then again, this day and age you can't start shooting people, double-oh status or not.
Right now I'm reading "Golem" by Mel Odom, another novel based on the Android game by Fantasy Flight Games. Interesting so far.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:51 am
Finished up on "Golem" last night, which went from interesting to predictable really, really fast sadly. Still, book one of the trilogy, two more to go, here's hoping it gets better.
Right now on my lap is "Ghouls of the Miskatonic" by Graham McNeill, another FFG published book, this time themed around their Arkham Horror series of games.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:48 am
A friend borrowed me his copy of Neuromancer and holy ********, I'm hooked. eek
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:16 am
Right now I'm reading "Achtung Schweinehund!", a book about well, wargaming and how the generation of my father grew up post-WWII influenced by Commando Comics and Airfix soldiers.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:59 am
Done with "Achtung Schweinehund!" which was something of a trip down memory lane here and there. I was a bit annoyed by the rather hostile opinion of the author on GW and sci-fi / fantasy wargaming in general. Oh well. All in all a fun little read that will probably be only of use to people who are either British or have a strong feel for that culture.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:07 am
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:05 am
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:16 am
Someone got classy all of the sudden.. ninja
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:32 pm
Lady Blodwynn Someone got classy all of the sudden.. ninja I got some choice literature before we parted ways. wink
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:42 am
While waiting for some, hopefully, quality BL literature to arrive I've decided to crack open the Iron Kingdoms RPG book and read the fluff behind the whole setting. Interesting, it does repeat itself a bit here and there sadly. However, the information provided on currency used, languages spoken and whatnot are a welcome source of tiny titbits I love about a setting.
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:04 am
I read The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follet a month or so ago, a fiction set before WWI and the politics leading up to it. The British are looking to ensure Russia comes to their aide in the inevitable instance of war with the Germans, however a Russian anarchist seeks to sabotage the proceedings so that Russia doesn't send millions of peasants to die in an English war. I had trouble putting it down, the author managed to successfully mesh world politics, a troubled family past, and visceral action in one. You find yourself rooting for characters on both "sides," which makes you need to accelerate to the end of the book to find out how it all unfolds. I'd highly recommend the book to anyone who happens to see it (it's not exactly new).
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:07 am
Since last time Ive read snow crash (okay), neuromancer (okay), extreme psychic (s**t), the casual vacancy (pretty good) and a massive pile of cheap harlequin romance books that are now all burned to cinders because bonfires of freedom need something to burn. emotion_puke
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 2:28 am
Reading Sherlock Holmes. He's a bit of a bell end if you ask me.
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