It's been a while

[trinityvixen]

I go through cycles of playing no video games to doing very little else. I had a lazy weekend, and I finally let myself play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. I love it, of course. The story remains engaging, though I do wish we could move on from the character that the games have become about. I like the character, but he'll cease to be interesting

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[fairest]

The video game thing doesn't surprise me (I saw you log back in at 1:00, hee), but I am *floored* that you got through 400 pages of AGoT! I'll bring the sequel upstate, shall I? Or possibly the rest of the series? Does this mean we can watch the show soon? :)

I am agitated that you were spoiled for the Big Spoiler. It was fun to watch the TV-only fans ASPLODE the other week, but I wish you'd gotten to feel the impact firsthand through book or show. Sadface.

[trinityvixen]

I think just the next book should be sufficient. I don't even know that I'll be done with the first one by the time I see you anyway. It's really long. I had a great time reading it, and it's been simply ages that I took a book out for such a spin. I think it helped that I was dependent on a book for entertainment for so much of the weekend, but, clearly, the book is engaging. It's only after the fact that I'm feeling so exhausted about it. Because...four hundred pages...still four hundred to go...

Yes, the Big Spoiler. It does change the way I read the book, as the chapters involving stuff related to that make me incredibly sad. Not because I was spoiled but because of [SPOILER], you know? On the other hand, I should have guessed based on the show's cast that that would happen. I cannot believe they got [SPOILER] for the role of [SPOILER] much less that they should keep [him/her].

[fairest]

I don't think I've ever seen you do this 400-pages-at-a-go thing with a book before. I am so tickled. :D

I got myself into trouble when I started re-reading the series midway through neuro. I kept trying to read "just until SPOILER" because it was a natural stopping point, and as a result I ended up studying around reading time instead of reading around study time because I forgot how much happened between my page and SPOLIER. :P

Your timing is good for getting into the series, too -- the next book has an actual publication date. Who are your favorite characters?

[trinityvixen]

I have devoured books whole in weekends. I got through almost all of The Hunger Games series in about a week. I finished Matt Taibbi's book about the financial crisis in twelve hours. I just don't do it often because I usually have other things distracting me, or too much to do to devote that much time to reading.

My favorite character is probably the person at the center of the SPOILER, which may be in part due to the spoiler, in part due to the casting for that character in the TV series, and in part because he reminds me of my Dad. Otherwise, I can't say as I particularly like, well, anybody. They're all incredibly venal and stupid a lot of the time.

As for publication stuff, I'm going to have to read this book and the next one before the end of the year because the next season starts shooting next month already. If I don't want to run into another story-ruining SPOILER, I'm going to have to work at it.

[kent_allard_jr]

I love seeing movie costumes in person.

There's a small collection at the Museum of the Moving Image in my neighborhood, which you might actually like. In fact I remember Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra costume there, I wonder if it was on loan?

[trinityvixen]

Could be. It's a shame we don't have a larger interest in the history of fashion than the odd traveling exhibit outside of the Met's Costume Institute. I would totally die for a museum of nothing but dresses from movies, but I'd happily take non-movie outfits, too.