I think having little obsessions is good. I salute all of you who do (and thus salute myself. How self-serving of me ( Read more... )

Okay, let me clarify in a most likely SPOILERY way.

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It lives up to expectations.

I've been feeling so very meh lately. I'm really hoping that it's just this cold making my head throb through my ears (an impressive feat indeed... and a perfect opportunity for "small brain" jokes). I'm just feeling uninspired, overweight and generally apathetic. Too much rushing about this week will surely lead to things falling apart... and me ( Read more... )

I have quite enjoyed this weekend, aside from it being far too short ( Read more... )

My pursuit of geeky cultural learning lead me to read Dune by Frank Herbert, a book written in the glory days of 1965. They don't write 'em like that any more... and just as well because my god it's an awful book ( Read more... )

Bleaugh! Both a description of my health and of my reaction to this BoingBoing announcement of Cory's Locus win for short story. Has he actually looked at the other winners?

Best First Novel: Temeraire: Naomi Novik I knew it was a mistake to pick up the book, let alone buy it, but buy it I did. (It assured me on the cover that there were ( Read more... )

The arrogant bastard. He had the temerity to put discussion questions at the end of Neverwhere as if to say that it merited discussion, as if to suggest that by asking the questions his novel was more worthy of praise than others. I'm sorry, Mr Gaimen, but the answer is no. This book was, for the most part, a one-joke steaming pile; "You expect it ( Read more... )

I must be the only person in existence who gets up earlier because of a power outage. The flashing red numbers on my clock can only mean that I immediately need to get up and find out what the real time is. And yes... it's 5:40am. Do you trust yourself to go to sleep for just another hour? No, no you don't. Looks like you'd better get up now then ( Read more... )

It only took a month (more?) but I've finally finished Terry Prachett's Wintersmith. This is a very good indication of how good the book was. The word coherence obviously never entered his mind when he was writing it. Characterisation of anyone outside the witches was samefully inconsistent. And, after learning from his thingy at the State Library ( Read more... )