I heard it from a stranger

[citizenx]

I'm reading this book, and one of the characters in it gets in a little accident. It's a little accident involving his head and a saw blade. Don't get too worried, though - he ends up perfectly fine. Actually, "perfectly fine" may be going a little far - he's in fine health, but he ends up with Tourette's-like symptoms (my words, not the author'

Comments

[dabblersupreme]

how are you liking everything is illuminated? i particularly liked the language mistakes that alex (if i remmeber his name correctly) makes.

I knew someone would catch it

[citizenx]

Yes, it is Alex, and I'm enjoying it so far.

I appreciated how the book starts off with Alex and his interesting command of the English language. It gives the reader something amusing and strange to dive into, sort of setting the tone for the overall book. And as for language mistakes, my favorites are how he says his Grandfather is "retarded" and so he doesn't have to work (it took me just a little bit to understand he meant "retired"), and that he says he is "fluid" in English.

Re: I knew someone would catch it

[dabblersupreme]

i love how he obviously uses the thesaurus to get big complex words that are synonyms but don't quite work. i'll have to bounce a friend's opinion of a later development in the book off you, but i'll wait until you're done.

[clitorisorusrex]

comically disturbing.

Isn't it?

[citizenx]

I literally LOLed.

Re: Isn't it?

[clitorisorusrex]

me too. A precious gem of the altered psyche.

[eyeteeth]

"Blade lodged in head that can't be removed because it would cause death" is part of the backstory for a character from a strange Japanese video game called Bust a Groove 2. In his case it's an ax that his son tried to kill him with, and it seems to have turned him into a zombie of some kind. Bust a Groove is a dancing game, kind of like Dance Dance Revolution, and I'm happy to say that this character dances like the zombies from the "Thriller" video.

Oh, those Japanese

[citizenx]

I like Bust a Move, but that seems like an entirely different game.

Re: Oh, those Japanese

[eyeteeth]

Yeah, it's called Bust a Move in Japan, but they couldn't call it that here because there was already a game by that name. One that has no undead and is therefore inferior.

[westerneyes]

I have to admit, that made me guffaw in my office. And people stared. So you get an A.

Yay A!

[citizenx]

But I didn't even write it! I just typed it in!

Re: Yay A!

[westerneyes]

Sharing is important. I might have to read the rest now.

[qft]

*sniff*.... that's beautiful, man.

You need to work on your pimpin'

[citizenx]

Isn't it? I even tagged it as such.