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kali921

In short, a monkey has bested seven men. This should give you a dim view of human endeavor.

Feb 10, 2010 09:49

ceitfianna tagged me for an icon meme, and I succumbed, for icon memes are a dangerous weakness.

The meme is writ thusly:

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ceitfianna February 10 2010, 19:19:33 UTC

White Knight was the one which I stopped after, but I love Codex Alera. I think the fact that I ended up rereading two of them on a horrible vacation made me not as interested.

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ceitfianna February 10 2010, 21:10:58 UTC

Well, Butcher is really good at world building and Codex Alera has lots of roman references and the characters are more well rounded from the start.

I think a lot of it depends on what you like, Dresden Files are good pulpy noir books with a first person narrator.

Codex Alera are more straight fantasy and he plays around with the POV a lot, I prefer Alera but it depends what you like.

jencendiary February 10 2010, 19:31:15 UTC

I read the first book and just did not give a damn. Did I miss something?

PS. A+ icon.

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jencendiary February 10 2010, 19:42:03 UTC

Zombie-Mecha Gustave Eiffel was much better as weird rewarrds go.

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jencendiary February 10 2010, 19:46:45 UTC

I just re-read the other day, and I was like. "Yes! As good as I remembered!"

kali921 February 11 2010, 01:28:19 UTC

I never finished Umbrella Academy. Maybe I'll pick it up again and read it through this time. I'm not quite sure why I didn't finish it the first time - the whole 'rock star as author' thing put me off when usually I'm DELIGHTED to find out that artists have fluency in more than one sphere of artistic endeavor - particularly when that sphere is COMICS.

Yeah, I'm still feeling burned by Tad Williams' fucking up of Aquaman.

outlawpoet February 10 2010, 20:40:25 UTC

Philip Reeve's Traction London was what compelled me to read the Mortal Engines series, similarly.

kali921 February 11 2010, 01:25:36 UTC

How is that series? Should I read it? I DESPERATELY need absorbing and entertaining right now.

outlawpoet February 11 2010, 01:28:39 UTC

I like it a lot. I'm a sucker for the idea of architecture and society being plastic to organizing ideas and ideals, and he presents a whole world shaped by a philosophy called Municipal Darwinism, and it's pretty great.

Plus airships and dashing female pirate captains, which never hurts.

kali921 February 10 2010, 19:46:21 UTC

The first book was very, very rough - I had to clench my teeth to get through it. But I stuck around because I'd been told that they quickly get better - and I stuck around because I thought the premise had such promise - a tall 'n dark 'n handsome wizard who's a PI! Done in noir style! With a gigantic cat named Mister whom he adores! A love interest who is a PoC and who happens to be smarter than everyone else in the entire Dresden universe!

I like Harry because he's very hard himself and ultimately very humble underneath all the trash talking and Marvel Comics reference.

jencendiary February 10 2010, 19:47:23 UTC

I did like the skull. I wish my computer snarked me when I use google.

kali921 February 10 2010, 19:53:58 UTC

Bob the Skull. Of course, I forgot to mention him. Bob the Skull only gets funnier as the books go on - snarkier, more lascivious, more helpful.

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