Wake me up when September ends
Well, I've read quite a number of books since my last post, so I geuss it's time to write them all out now.
I finished reading 'Haunted' by Chuck Palahniuk. While reading it, I couldn't help but think "Ok, we get it. Humanity sucks. Get on with the story already." The thing I love about Palahniuk's writing is that it's chaotic. The bad part is, he's not very versifyable. He does one thing realy really well, but when he tries to change his writing style, it just doesn't work. The wole point of 'Haunted' and the thing that drew me to it, was the fact that charaters in the novil wrote over half the novil itself. I thoght having charaters in the novil write short stories to get a better look at them was a great Idea. The only problem is: I have a hard time believing that 15 people have the same writing style. This drew a bit enjoyment out of the book. Had Chuck just left the authorship of the novil to himself and not his charaters, I think it would have been a much better novil overall. Also, I think the whole 'humanity is inharitnly evil' concept of his books are starting to get a bit drawn out. I get it. Athough, I did like the ending. I wasn't expecting the twist. All of Chuck's novils tend to have a twist somewhere, and I was not expectng a twist. I geuss the short stories drew atteniton away from that, which was geneus. I might re-read some of the short stories, since quite a few of them were really good, but I'll probibly not re-read the inire novil again.
So after that, I read all the comic books I got from the Fan Expo. I don't care what you think, I'm adding them all to the list:
"Marv Oumpkinhead: Agent of Dream" By Bill Willingham, John Stokes, Mark Buckingham and Lee Loughridge.
"Thesaly: Witch for Hire by Bill Willingham and Shawn McManus.
"Death: THe High Cost of Living" by Neil Gaiman, Chris Backalo, Dave McKean and Mark Buckingham
"Death: The Time of Your Life" by Neil Gaiman, Christ Bachalo and Mark Buckingham
"The Sandman: Endless Nighs" by Neil Gaiman.
Each and every one of these was brilliant. I loved how they dove deeper into the already amasing charaters I've grown to love. They all seemed to follow the charaters exsacly, even thoughs comics that Neil Gaiman didn't directly write. Now I need those last few comics from the Sandman era that I'm missing. I think I'm only missing 'Dream Hunter". So all together, now, I've read 29 books.
Now, because I wrote a book count, it's usualy costomary to write out a movie review.....but I saw Inglorious Basterds again yesterday, and we already know I gave it a 9/10. And if I didn't because I'm too lazy to double cheack....even though I knew I wrote about it....thats the rating.
Its weird....for the past week I've been wanting to write smething out, but now....I just can't work up the guspo to write anything. I must be getting lazy.
I finished reading 'Haunted' by Chuck Palahniuk. While reading it, I couldn't help but think "Ok, we get it. Humanity sucks. Get on with the story already." The thing I love about Palahniuk's writing is that it's chaotic. The bad part is, he's not very versifyable. He does one thing realy really well, but when he tries to change his writing style, it just doesn't work. The wole point of 'Haunted' and the thing that drew me to it, was the fact that charaters in the novil wrote over half the novil itself. I thoght having charaters in the novil write short stories to get a better look at them was a great Idea. The only problem is: I have a hard time believing that 15 people have the same writing style. This drew a bit enjoyment out of the book. Had Chuck just left the authorship of the novil to himself and not his charaters, I think it would have been a much better novil overall. Also, I think the whole 'humanity is inharitnly evil' concept of his books are starting to get a bit drawn out. I get it. Athough, I did like the ending. I wasn't expecting the twist. All of Chuck's novils tend to have a twist somewhere, and I was not expectng a twist. I geuss the short stories drew atteniton away from that, which was geneus. I might re-read some of the short stories, since quite a few of them were really good, but I'll probibly not re-read the inire novil again.
So after that, I read all the comic books I got from the Fan Expo. I don't care what you think, I'm adding them all to the list:
"Marv Oumpkinhead: Agent of Dream" By Bill Willingham, John Stokes, Mark Buckingham and Lee Loughridge.
"Thesaly: Witch for Hire by Bill Willingham and Shawn McManus.
"Death: THe High Cost of Living" by Neil Gaiman, Chris Backalo, Dave McKean and Mark Buckingham
"Death: The Time of Your Life" by Neil Gaiman, Christ Bachalo and Mark Buckingham
"The Sandman: Endless Nighs" by Neil Gaiman.
Each and every one of these was brilliant. I loved how they dove deeper into the already amasing charaters I've grown to love. They all seemed to follow the charaters exsacly, even thoughs comics that Neil Gaiman didn't directly write. Now I need those last few comics from the Sandman era that I'm missing. I think I'm only missing 'Dream Hunter". So all together, now, I've read 29 books.
Now, because I wrote a book count, it's usualy costomary to write out a movie review.....but I saw Inglorious Basterds again yesterday, and we already know I gave it a 9/10. And if I didn't because I'm too lazy to double cheack....even though I knew I wrote about it....thats the rating.
Its weird....for the past week I've been wanting to write smething out, but now....I just can't work up the guspo to write anything. I must be getting lazy.