Runo should Know
You may have been wondering on the lack of Runo Knows... lately.
I'm here to clarify that.
Uh...
Anyways, the last month or so has been characterized by me re-reading a number of books I've already done. The Dexter books, for instance, as well as a couple of Warhammer 40K omnibuses.
Then I've had my new material. The Lovecraft books typically get carried with me to work, and my lunches as of late have either been relatively short (though I'm looking forward to a nice lunch of mee goreng at Cafe Asia tomorrow) or non-existent (eating at my desk).
Gravity's Rainbow - which I'm going to flat out admit that I wouldn't have bought had Thomas Pynchon not been so funny on The Simpsons - is a slow read, and I'm about 1/3 of the way through it.
I re-read The Atrocity Archives and it was still good. The Clan Corporate (another Charles Stross novel) is...uh...my work-out novel. To preview (perhaps) the upcoming post on it, I'm just not seeing it. I'm not getting into it. Feudalistic/corporate intrigue, with the occasional foray into technothriller (and the more-than-occasional "I'm not going to tell you who is talking right now" bit) just kind of wears on me.
I owe you a Runo Knows on Crooked LIttle Vein which I knocked out in about no time, but that'll probably be tomorrow.
The Saint, the latest Dan Abnett Warhammer 40K Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus, on the other hand, is rocking my fething world. It's just what the doctor ordered lately, some all-action, no-holds-barred, little-thought-required fun. And it's four novels in one, so it may be a while - though I powered through the end of the first book (Honour Guard) and into the second (The Guns of Tanith) tonight over some cigars, Shiner Bock (we need this keg dead, we're tired of Shiner Bock and I want Oktoberfest), and the sounds of rain.
(It started raining while I smoked a La Aurora 1495, in other words. Yes, I probably should've let it sit in the humidor a bit more, but I wanted to try it, and it was a quite very much delicious cigar. I followed it up with a Lone Wolf Wolfpack, mostly because the idea of having 13 of them bothered me, and the Lone Wolf, while tasteless at the beginning, reminded me why I like them as a "back-up" cigar.)
I also purchased Bioshock and Medal of Honor: Airborne last week, and need to write up my reviews of those. (Wait for the GamersInfo reviews of them, no freebies here. Well, maybe one: Bioshock rules your sad little world. It's fucking awesome.)
And that's not to mention finally watching the Bob Saget HBO special (despite it being erased off our DVR, it was on On-Demand, and it was absolutely fucking positively HYSTERICAL) and trying to keep up with my DVDs of Dexter (not very well, though, mostly 'cause the last episode I watched was kind of melancholy which makes me careful when I watch the next).
So - what that means to you...
A "Runo Knows" tomorrow, in all odds.
Probably some football notes at some point tomorrow/Wednesday.
Some video game reviews on the other site coming up this week, and probably a blog or two (one on football, one on shipping vs. release dates on video games in the staff blog section) on there too.
More of me being drunk and missing somebody...
I'm here to clarify that.
Uh...
Anyways, the last month or so has been characterized by me re-reading a number of books I've already done. The Dexter books, for instance, as well as a couple of Warhammer 40K omnibuses.
Then I've had my new material. The Lovecraft books typically get carried with me to work, and my lunches as of late have either been relatively short (though I'm looking forward to a nice lunch of mee goreng at Cafe Asia tomorrow) or non-existent (eating at my desk).
Gravity's Rainbow - which I'm going to flat out admit that I wouldn't have bought had Thomas Pynchon not been so funny on The Simpsons - is a slow read, and I'm about 1/3 of the way through it.
I re-read The Atrocity Archives and it was still good. The Clan Corporate (another Charles Stross novel) is...uh...my work-out novel. To preview (perhaps) the upcoming post on it, I'm just not seeing it. I'm not getting into it. Feudalistic/corporate intrigue, with the occasional foray into technothriller (and the more-than-occasional "I'm not going to tell you who is talking right now" bit) just kind of wears on me.
I owe you a Runo Knows on Crooked LIttle Vein which I knocked out in about no time, but that'll probably be tomorrow.
The Saint, the latest Dan Abnett Warhammer 40K Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus, on the other hand, is rocking my fething world. It's just what the doctor ordered lately, some all-action, no-holds-barred, little-thought-required fun. And it's four novels in one, so it may be a while - though I powered through the end of the first book (Honour Guard) and into the second (The Guns of Tanith) tonight over some cigars, Shiner Bock (we need this keg dead, we're tired of Shiner Bock and I want Oktoberfest), and the sounds of rain.
(It started raining while I smoked a La Aurora 1495, in other words. Yes, I probably should've let it sit in the humidor a bit more, but I wanted to try it, and it was a quite very much delicious cigar. I followed it up with a Lone Wolf Wolfpack, mostly because the idea of having 13 of them bothered me, and the Lone Wolf, while tasteless at the beginning, reminded me why I like them as a "back-up" cigar.)
I also purchased Bioshock and Medal of Honor: Airborne last week, and need to write up my reviews of those. (Wait for the GamersInfo reviews of them, no freebies here. Well, maybe one: Bioshock rules your sad little world. It's fucking awesome.)
And that's not to mention finally watching the Bob Saget HBO special (despite it being erased off our DVR, it was on On-Demand, and it was absolutely fucking positively HYSTERICAL) and trying to keep up with my DVDs of Dexter (not very well, though, mostly 'cause the last episode I watched was kind of melancholy which makes me careful when I watch the next).
So - what that means to you...
A "Runo Knows" tomorrow, in all odds.
Probably some football notes at some point tomorrow/Wednesday.
Some video game reviews on the other site coming up this week, and probably a blog or two (one on football, one on shipping vs. release dates on video games in the staff blog section) on there too.
More of me being drunk and missing somebody...