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First off, congrats again to loqia on the engagement. One day this will sink in. Hopefully, before the wedding (btw, any plans on that front?).
Yeah, I’m posting a lot. I’ve run out of new games to play on my PS2 so I’ve turned back to computers for companionship ::sniff:: I’ve started putting together a new template for the site. Trying something a little different this time from the construction POV: putting it together in the reverse of what I would normally do. It’s hard. I knew it was a bad idea starting site work after 9pm; it took me 3 hours to put together a frame I liked, and now I have to start filling it in… I’m stuck on the ‘filling it in’ stage.
With all my brand spanking new time, thanks to a.) no more job applications - yay!, b.) no more uni - double yay, and c.) no more PS2 games, boo - I’ve started reading books again. I have 3 partially finished books sitting around my room (and in my computer) that I just can’t be bothered finishing. I get bored and move onto something else. I even bought a Hellboy book which I’m pretty sure K’s read, but in which I haven’t even looked at the first page yet. Really, I bought it for the premise: angels attacking the Vatican - what more could you ask for? K said the coolness wasn’t actually born out through the prose, but the idea, the irony makes me cackle. I’ve noticed that when it comes to printed you-can-hold-the-thing-in-your-hand books, I have more of a preference for non-fiction these days. I guess fandom fills all my other needs.
At the moment I’ve gotten back into Timonthy Zahn’s Star Wars novels. As in, pick up one book, read a chapter, and then switch to another book because I just remembered a scene I liked. I’m trying to properly read through (i.e. without the switching) his original so-called Thrawn Trilogy. ‘So called’ because I don’t think that’s the actual official title, is it? I think I’ve also heard it referred to as the ‘Empire Trilogy’. Anyway! It’s interesting how interests change as we grow up. I can remember as a little tyke, reading it mainly for the ‘Rebellion’ side of things, while this time (which is really, only the second time I’ve actually read them all together), I’m more interested in the Empire. And it’s amazing how much more of the text you understand as you grow older, and what you missed when you were younger.
The other thing that's interesting is reading his 'original' Star Wars trilogy now that he's fleshed out his story; seeing if he's forshadowed anything or if he's contradicted himself. And seeing characters he's fleshed out later at the very beginning when I never even noticed them. It's fun :)
I think I’ve become pro-Empire, especially in light of all the recent EU books which I really can’t stand. I stopped buying SW books after the Hand of Thrawn Duology - which I honestly thought was the end of the EU! They’re nice bookends to the EU universe: start with Zahn, end with Zahn. The only one of the books I like which is set after Vision of the Future (come on, how does that not sound like the end of a series?) is, again, a Zahn book. I don’t know if I’ll like his new SW book due out next year; there’s no Thrawn in it :(
I think I need to start reading his original works.
Yeah, I’m posting a lot. I’ve run out of new games to play on my PS2 so I’ve turned back to computers for companionship ::sniff:: I’ve started putting together a new template for the site. Trying something a little different this time from the construction POV: putting it together in the reverse of what I would normally do. It’s hard. I knew it was a bad idea starting site work after 9pm; it took me 3 hours to put together a frame I liked, and now I have to start filling it in… I’m stuck on the ‘filling it in’ stage.
With all my brand spanking new time, thanks to a.) no more job applications - yay!, b.) no more uni - double yay, and c.) no more PS2 games, boo - I’ve started reading books again. I have 3 partially finished books sitting around my room (and in my computer) that I just can’t be bothered finishing. I get bored and move onto something else. I even bought a Hellboy book which I’m pretty sure K’s read, but in which I haven’t even looked at the first page yet. Really, I bought it for the premise: angels attacking the Vatican - what more could you ask for? K said the coolness wasn’t actually born out through the prose, but the idea, the irony makes me cackle. I’ve noticed that when it comes to printed you-can-hold-the-thing-in-your-hand books, I have more of a preference for non-fiction these days. I guess fandom fills all my other needs.
At the moment I’ve gotten back into Timonthy Zahn’s Star Wars novels. As in, pick up one book, read a chapter, and then switch to another book because I just remembered a scene I liked. I’m trying to properly read through (i.e. without the switching) his original so-called Thrawn Trilogy. ‘So called’ because I don’t think that’s the actual official title, is it? I think I’ve also heard it referred to as the ‘Empire Trilogy’. Anyway! It’s interesting how interests change as we grow up. I can remember as a little tyke, reading it mainly for the ‘Rebellion’ side of things, while this time (which is really, only the second time I’ve actually read them all together), I’m more interested in the Empire. And it’s amazing how much more of the text you understand as you grow older, and what you missed when you were younger.
The other thing that's interesting is reading his 'original' Star Wars trilogy now that he's fleshed out his story; seeing if he's forshadowed anything or if he's contradicted himself. And seeing characters he's fleshed out later at the very beginning when I never even noticed them. It's fun :)
I think I’ve become pro-Empire, especially in light of all the recent EU books which I really can’t stand. I stopped buying SW books after the Hand of Thrawn Duology - which I honestly thought was the end of the EU! They’re nice bookends to the EU universe: start with Zahn, end with Zahn. The only one of the books I like which is set after Vision of the Future (come on, how does that not sound like the end of a series?) is, again, a Zahn book. I don’t know if I’ll like his new SW book due out next year; there’s no Thrawn in it :(
I think I need to start reading his original works.