Finished Fables Vol 11: War and Pieces, where the big war with the Adversary finally happens... but I found it quite underwhelming. It all happens quite fast and there's just a lack of tension. Yes there are big changes to come, but it all seems to have fizzled out, and not sure if I'll continue with the series.
I'm currently reading Brother Odd, the third in Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" series, with the fourth book on deck when I finish this one, and then it's on to Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book."
I am working on P. Craig Russell's excellent adaption of the Ring cycle - just ordered book 2 from Amazon so it's here when I finish the first. On Friday, I was very psyched to pick up Michael Pennington's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - A USER'S GUIDE, which talks in-depth about Shakespeare's play from the point of view of the actors and director. His first two USER'S GUIDES - first Hamlet, then Twelfth Night - contain some of the wisest and most thorough explorations of those plays I've ever read.
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Finished Fables Vol 11: War and Pieces, where the big war with the Adversary finally happens... but I found it quite underwhelming. It all happens quite fast and there's just a lack of tension. Yes there are big changes to come, but it all seems to have fizzled out, and not sure if I'll continue with the series.
This was one of the final comic book series I started just before I dropped comics entirely. I read through book 3, and like Y-the Last Man, I found it very entertaining. It's too bad some series can't keep up the quality work, especially when it reaches a point the entire storyline is building towards.
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I am working on P. Craig Russell's excellent adaption of the Ring cycle - just ordered book 2 from Amazon so it's here when I finish the first.
I read these when they were published as individual comics (uncollected that is). Beautiful art and very well done. My first taste of Wagner in comics was in Thor back in 1980. In the middle of resolving the way-cosmic Celestial trial of earth (do we live or die?) Roy Thomas drops in four issues of the Ring Cycle. A truely WTF moment in comics.
Between slogging through Caesar's subjugations of the Galli, I re-read Alan Moore's Ballad of Halo Jones graphic novel. It was one of his first "acclaimed" comic series written back during his work in 2000AD. Unfortunately it was not as good as I remembered it the first time though. I think that so many of the innovations in storytelling he used has become fairly common in today's work.
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I am either about to start reading the novel adaptation of "The Dark Crystal" or the first in the series of Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) novels... I didn't read a single novel, last year... 7 kids, don'tcha know...
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Into the Land of Black Ice (retired) - An arctic PbP adventure in the mysterious frozen lands of Oerth
Penance of the Damned (retired) - A planar chat-based game, set in Hades, where the PCs began as larvae
Beneath the Pinnacles of Azor'alq (retired) - A mid-level PbP campaign set within the Dramidj Ocean Heirs of Turucambi - An entry-level chat-based game set within the waters of Turucambi Reef in the Oljatt Sea Nature of the Beast (in design) - A sylvan adventure where the adventurers are forest animals.
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Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
Finished Name of the Wind and was quite impressed, though it felt like an overlong prologue. But wonderfullly written; definitely looking forward to the second book.
Decided to finish up my collection of Lone Wolf and Cub books, so re-reading #1-3.
I am in the middle of A Rage for Revenge the third book of the War Against the Chtorr series by David Gerrold. It has been a great series so far, but in the third book I don't get all the dirty lyrics. Thay are really out of place.
War Against the Chtorr...wow, I remember reading that series a long time ago... If I recall, I was into Gamma World (or some other post-apocalyptic game) at the time; really enjoyed the series.
Currently reading the Darkblade omnibus; enjoyed the first book a lot more that I was expecting. Things started to get a little stale (once they group headed into the Chaos wastes), but the first two-thirds were a lot of fun. Once that's done, probably going to dive back into Greg Keyes' Kingdom of Thorn and Bones series.
I just finished World War I: The African Front by Edward Paice. A good, solid, history of a subject that is usally ignored. While it is a bit long in the middle, I learned quite a bit.
I gave up on The Elfish Gene. Supposedly about growing up playing D&D, it's more about a guy blaming D&D for his own obsessions and downright wierdness. Unless you want to read the story of a disfunctional adolescent, avoid this one.
Thinking of starting Dread Empire's Fall series by Walter Jon Williams. Anyone know anything about these?
In terms of fiction, I finished reading Perdido Street Station (it only took me 14 months of on-and-off reading) and begun reading Scott Westerfield's Uglies after hearing about it on NPR (I'm almost done with it and will be moving on to the second book). Big difference in writing styles to say the least, but I'm enjoying it.
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If I recall, I was into Gamma World (or some other post-apocalyptic game) at the time; really enjoyed the series.
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