Book joy and Iljimae rant

[dangermousie]

Kill that baby!

Any book that starts that way can't be all bad :) SMeyer should have paid attention.

Yes, as you can tell, I got my hands on Acheron. There better be loads of angst, is all I am sayin'. Cursed at birth is a good start, so let's hope Kenyon keeps this up.

In other news, I completely lost any interest in finishing Iljimae, even

Comments

[autumn_yaar]

Good to know I wasn't the only one who thought so of Iljimae. I might keep watching it for LJK [He was the reason I started watching it, these type of stories aren't my thing, HGD being the only exception.], but I've already watched half of the drama and its really boring me! Nothing happens and I was kind of annoyed by the character of Iljimae in the first place. o_o

[dangermousie]

Yay, I am not alone. And agree on the annoyingness.

[alexandral]

I stopped watching "Iljimae" , but I am waiting for subtitles. I still like it very much at the end of the episode 11, it is not "The Legend" but it is a very enjoyable period story.

[dangermousie]

I agree it's enjoyable, I guess it just doesn't strike me as more: I don't know, I have no emotional connection to it.

[salimbol]

This makes me sad to hear, as we have just started Powerful Opponents, and Iljimae is on its way to us :-(. I guess I was hoping for another HGD from it.

[dangermousie]

No, it's not HGD :(

PO was awesome until last half of last ep and then it just lost me.

[salimbol]

Dang! Still, I would have said it had a fairly good run for you 95% of the way - but I know that sometimes an ending that doesn't work (or doesn't resolve anything) can really leave a bad taste in your mouth and affect your opinion of the whole thing.

[dangermousie]

Yeah. I need to like the ending to like the whole thing, unless the ending is severable.

It did have one of my all time fave male characters though (male bodyguard).

[timescout]

So it's another one that fizzles out without resolving anything? I knew from the spoilers already that it was not really my thing so I never started. Just as well if the ending kinda sucks too. I still haven't watched the last epis of PO as I got so pissed about how it ended.

[dangermousie]

Yup. At least PO had a strong story until it went off the rails. Iljimae never did.

[lenabean]

Yeah, I had high hopes for Iljimae myself and slathering over the idea of it with LJK when it first came out, but it never held my interest (even with LJK--wha???). I couldn't even make it past episode 2, I think...SADNESS.

And I don't remember if I got past episode 1 of Powerful Opponents.

Seriously, where has all the good kdrama GONE?

[dangermousie]

Yeah, Iljimae had potential but blah.

Gourmet is supposed to be really good but I haven't seen it.