I just realized that in a previous post I neglected to mention that Carrie got me three volumes from the Samurai Deeper Kyo manga series which I'm in the middle of, but haven't kept up-to-date with in a while. I'm actually quite pleased to have received those so that I can read several volumes at once, for a more satisfying experience! =D Thanks ( Read more... )

Have not been reading a whole lot lately as I've been in a mood to watch things instead. I re-read the first 6 books of the Sword of Truth series which is better read when I'm able to skim the parts that irritated me the first time around (see my previous rants).

I also read Martine Leavitt's Keturah and Lord Death, which I received from koyappi for ( Read more... )

I have wanted to post A LOT in the last two weeks, but I've been SO busy at work and outside of it that I have had no time to sit down and compose. Of course, this means that quite a few of the things I wanted to say have slipped my mind. So just a few things for now ( Read more... )

After lots of stuff about Objectivism in pop culture lately, I've become more curious about it. Terry Goodkind is an objectivist, but from what I'd heard tell about Objectivism, I couldn't quite reconcile Goodkind's fantasy series about the value of life and compassion, with the extreme viewpoint depicted in Bioshock and what Austin had described ( Read more... )

I finished reading Terry Goodkind's Confessor on Thursday. In many ways, it was the best possible conclusion to the series. Of course, we all know that the protagonist triumphs. That isn't exactly a surprise. I very much enjoyed the struggle to the end, and-- huh, come to think of it, I don't remember what the last Wizard's rule was. Did ( Read more... )

Friday night I picked up Laurell K. Hamilton’s newest in the Merry Gentry series, A Lick of Frost. Again, this book takes place over the space of a few days. It wasn’t quite as annoying as it could have been, I suppose, since apparently LKH has stopped needing to write sex as 95% of the story. I went to reread my post about the last Merry ( Read more... )

Finished Chainfire by Terry Goodkind. This was like the 8th or 9th book in the Sword of Truth series. The conflict of this book was good. It was a slightly more straightforward, as well as frustrating, problem for the main character, Richard. The thing with Goodkind, is that you know that it will be resolved by the end of the book, and that the ( Read more... )

WARNING: There is a lengthy discussion/rant about books ahead. No spoilers, but it might not be interesting to those who aren't into reading.First, Monday's no school 'cause of President's Day. Well, actually, maybe that's second. First is that Sunday I didn't go in to work because they decided to stay closed this Sunday -- what with there being ( Read more... )

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