Catching up~
I'm gonna give my thoughts on a few things I've been reading/watching over the past few weeks, so click the cut if you want to be spoiled/join in discussion :) Lots of slashy stuff (except for Breaking Bad XD)
White Road
I gotta say, I was waaaaaaay more impressed with this book than the previous one, as I hate hate hate slavefic and why would slave fiction be any different? :P I admit, though, that I was never all that happy with Sebrahn. I don't really like kids coming into a relationship no matter the manner just to make the couple a big happy family unit. And given how attached Alec was to Sebrahn--almost to the extent that it started to hurt his relationship with Seregil--it really annoyed me that the kid/thing was there :/
So I was satisfied that, in the end, they had to give him up to go live with the others and got to return to life on their own. I'm hoping that the next book has much more couple-action and much less couple-with-a-kid action :P ALSO: NEEDS MORE SEX. Come ooonnnnnnn :P The little bits that wind up being all of three sentences and fade-to-black are starting to get annoying. I want to read a book about their relationship as a couple more than their adventures together; I'd even settle for 50/50 or at least more than, you know, 5% focusing on Seregil and Alec and the rest PLOT PLOT PLOT.
I suppose I can go back to watching her blog now, though! At least snippets she posts now won't be fraught with SEBRAHN, THE CHILD OF NO MOTHER THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF SEREGIL AND ALEC.
Demon's Lexicon
Now, if you've read this, no one spoil me; I'm only on chapter 4 or 5 so far. I picked this up because bookshop praised it up and down and said it was slashy or something and had demons and whatnot, and I was wanting something new to read since finishing White Road above. However, while I may find some fault with Lynn's plot/characters at times...I have never been disappointed in her prowess as a writer, and thoroughly enjoy the depth and detail she goes into when weaving her setting and delving into characters' feelings. That being said...it was like diving into the arctic after relaxing in a hot tub going from Nightrunner stuff to THIS :(((((
The writing is...not bad so much as completely unengaging, I have no attachments to any of the characters thus far, I find myself growing bored halfway through a sentence, the dialogue is stilted, her characters are young and read that way--and not in a good way--and just ugh :(((( I am disappoint.
It sounds like it could be a decent book, but it's just gone about it really sloppily. It smacks of teen fiction geared more towards 13-year-olds than something darker themed that can be enjoyed by college-aged people and beyond. I hope the plot starts making up for it soon.
Breaking Bad
TV show now! I started watching this because I needed a new series and it looked mildly interesting. I stopped watching about halfway through season 1 because it was just too depressing :( But then I decided to plow through a few more episodes, and it started picking up, and before I knew it I was finished with all that's out right now and will be waiting for season 3 to end soon XD
If you've never watched it, the premise is an extremely overqualified straight-laced high school chem teacher gets the bad news that he's got inoperable terminal lung cancer. Not wanting to burden his family with the news or guilt, and not wanting them to dig themselves into debt trying to pay for his treatment, he resorts to cooking meth, hoping to leave his family with a sizeable nest egg before he shuffles off the mortal coil. Lots of things happen along the way--drug wars, family finding out he has cancer, DEA brother-in-law unknowingly on his tail, he starts to get BETTER, drama drama drama--and it winds up being a really intriguing dramatic series.
I won't spoil anything here, because it'd suck for someone to be interested from that little summary and then get spoiled :P But it's a really interesting show that has me yelling at the screen a lot in good and bad ways XD;
I Love You Phillip Morris
Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor playing not only a convincing but a very very sweet, beautiful gay couple? YES YOU CAN HAS! It's a comedy-drama, and rightly has extremely hilarious scenes as well as scenes that made me cry, ngl XD They're just so fricking sweet XDDDD Ewan especially makes a dashing little "blond-haired blue-eyed queer", as he put it, and his Southern accent is adorable :D Google images of them!
It's out on DVD now, I think (and *cough* through other means as well...), so I encourage everyone to see it!!
Best part: it was playing in the same theater and at the same time as Nagayan's Gachinko when I went to see it at the release event XDDDD Maybe Nagayan slipped out to watch with Tuti :D
White Road
I gotta say, I was waaaaaaay more impressed with this book than the previous one, as I hate hate hate slavefic and why would slave fiction be any different? :P I admit, though, that I was never all that happy with Sebrahn. I don't really like kids coming into a relationship no matter the manner just to make the couple a big happy family unit. And given how attached Alec was to Sebrahn--almost to the extent that it started to hurt his relationship with Seregil--it really annoyed me that the kid/thing was there :/
So I was satisfied that, in the end, they had to give him up to go live with the others and got to return to life on their own. I'm hoping that the next book has much more couple-action and much less couple-with-a-kid action :P ALSO: NEEDS MORE SEX. Come ooonnnnnnn :P The little bits that wind up being all of three sentences and fade-to-black are starting to get annoying. I want to read a book about their relationship as a couple more than their adventures together; I'd even settle for 50/50 or at least more than, you know, 5% focusing on Seregil and Alec and the rest PLOT PLOT PLOT.
I suppose I can go back to watching her blog now, though! At least snippets she posts now won't be fraught with SEBRAHN, THE CHILD OF NO MOTHER THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF SEREGIL AND ALEC.
Demon's Lexicon
Now, if you've read this, no one spoil me; I'm only on chapter 4 or 5 so far. I picked this up because bookshop praised it up and down and said it was slashy or something and had demons and whatnot, and I was wanting something new to read since finishing White Road above. However, while I may find some fault with Lynn's plot/characters at times...I have never been disappointed in her prowess as a writer, and thoroughly enjoy the depth and detail she goes into when weaving her setting and delving into characters' feelings. That being said...it was like diving into the arctic after relaxing in a hot tub going from Nightrunner stuff to THIS :(((((
The writing is...not bad so much as completely unengaging, I have no attachments to any of the characters thus far, I find myself growing bored halfway through a sentence, the dialogue is stilted, her characters are young and read that way--and not in a good way--and just ugh :(((( I am disappoint.
It sounds like it could be a decent book, but it's just gone about it really sloppily. It smacks of teen fiction geared more towards 13-year-olds than something darker themed that can be enjoyed by college-aged people and beyond. I hope the plot starts making up for it soon.
Breaking Bad
TV show now! I started watching this because I needed a new series and it looked mildly interesting. I stopped watching about halfway through season 1 because it was just too depressing :( But then I decided to plow through a few more episodes, and it started picking up, and before I knew it I was finished with all that's out right now and will be waiting for season 3 to end soon XD
If you've never watched it, the premise is an extremely overqualified straight-laced high school chem teacher gets the bad news that he's got inoperable terminal lung cancer. Not wanting to burden his family with the news or guilt, and not wanting them to dig themselves into debt trying to pay for his treatment, he resorts to cooking meth, hoping to leave his family with a sizeable nest egg before he shuffles off the mortal coil. Lots of things happen along the way--drug wars, family finding out he has cancer, DEA brother-in-law unknowingly on his tail, he starts to get BETTER, drama drama drama--and it winds up being a really intriguing dramatic series.
I won't spoil anything here, because it'd suck for someone to be interested from that little summary and then get spoiled :P But it's a really interesting show that has me yelling at the screen a lot in good and bad ways XD;
I Love You Phillip Morris
Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor playing not only a convincing but a very very sweet, beautiful gay couple? YES YOU CAN HAS! It's a comedy-drama, and rightly has extremely hilarious scenes as well as scenes that made me cry, ngl XD They're just so fricking sweet XDDDD Ewan especially makes a dashing little "blond-haired blue-eyed queer", as he put it, and his Southern accent is adorable :D Google images of them!
It's out on DVD now, I think (and *cough* through other means as well...), so I encourage everyone to see it!!
Best part: it was playing in the same theater and at the same time as Nagayan's Gachinko when I went to see it at the release event XDDDD Maybe Nagayan slipped out to watch with Tuti :D