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Aug. 1st, 2007
July Book List
Aug. 1st, 2007 04:39 amJuly 3rd: R.A. Salvatore - Exile: Drizzle runs away from home! Meets some gnomes! Fights illithids! Meets dad again!
July 4th: Salvatore - Sojurn: Drizzle on the surface, where he: kills stuff, becomes a ranger, moves to an arctic zone and gets stalked by a creepy bounty hunter. Creepy men are always stalking Drizzle...
July 7th: Stewart Wieck (editor) - Truth Until Paradox: Anthology of short fiction based on White Wolf's Mage: the Ascension. Some good stories (especially towards the end), but also some total crap ones (like "Crystal Messiah" that opens the book)...
July 8th: Tanya Huff - The Fire's Stone: A drunk prince, his wizard fiance and a self-destructive thief have to steal back a magic rock, save the city and work out their complicated romantic situation...
July 10th: Christopher Moore - You Suck: Sequel to Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends. Which was a much better book. This is not one of Moore's better works...
July 11th: Ian Stewart/Jack Cohen/Terry Pratchett - The Science of Discworld 3: Darwin's Watch: 3rd volume of science with Pratchett's fiction interspersed with Stewart & Cohen's essays. And the latter two are decent humorists all on their own...
July 13th: John Varley/Ricia Mainhardt (editors) - Superheroes: An anthology of super-hero themed stories. Worth reading for L.K. Hamilton's "A Clean Sweep", Michael Stackpole's "Peer Review", Mike Resnick & Lawrence Shimel's "Super Acorns" and Richard Lee Byers' "Vets" alone...
July 15th: Harry Turtledove - Settling Accounts: The Grapple: Most recent in Turtledove's alt history series of a victorious Confederate State. Focus is on the U.S. push into Confederate territory as well as both nations race towards building the first atom bomb...
July 17th: Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair: First in his Thursday Next series. A must for anyone who is a fan of quirky English scifi (Pratchett, Admas, Rankin, etc)...
July 18th: Jane Smiley - Moo: A school year in the life of students, faculty and giant hog at a vaguely midwestern Ag college...
July 21st: J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix: Reread after seeing the movie...
Robert Parker - School Days: Spenser is hired to prove the innocence of a teen involved in a school shooting...
July 22nd: Rowling - Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows: I'll just say that I was 99% happy with the finale for the series...
Parker - Hugger Mugger: Spenser is hired to investigate who is trying to kill a valuable race horse in a small Southern town. I was actually somewhat disappointed in how this one ended...
July 24th: Pratchett - The Last Hero: A novella featuring Rincewind, Carrot, Leonard daQuirm and Cohen the Barbarian. Illustrated by Paul Kidby. Whats not to love?
July 26th: Jim Butcher - Cursor's Fury: The main villain in this 3rd book of the series is a vile waste of skin. The type of character that makes me have to stop reading because I want to reach in and tear off his face. I hate bullies and I fucking LOATHE rapists. So its an easy trigger for me when one is the big bad in a story...
July 29th: Julian May - The Many Colored Land: First in May's Pliocene Saga, where human misfits from a future intergalatic, multispecies society use a unique time portal to travel back in time to the Pliocene era...
July 31st: Raymond Feist - Into a Dark Realm: Pug and the Conclave now work towards solving the mystery of the Talnoy and beings of the 2nd Plane. While still having to cope with Leso Varen and his master the Mad God...
Total books: 18
July 4th: Salvatore - Sojurn: Drizzle on the surface, where he: kills stuff, becomes a ranger, moves to an arctic zone and gets stalked by a creepy bounty hunter. Creepy men are always stalking Drizzle...
July 7th: Stewart Wieck (editor) - Truth Until Paradox: Anthology of short fiction based on White Wolf's Mage: the Ascension. Some good stories (especially towards the end), but also some total crap ones (like "Crystal Messiah" that opens the book)...
July 8th: Tanya Huff - The Fire's Stone: A drunk prince, his wizard fiance and a self-destructive thief have to steal back a magic rock, save the city and work out their complicated romantic situation...
July 10th: Christopher Moore - You Suck: Sequel to Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends. Which was a much better book. This is not one of Moore's better works...
July 11th: Ian Stewart/Jack Cohen/Terry Pratchett - The Science of Discworld 3: Darwin's Watch: 3rd volume of science with Pratchett's fiction interspersed with Stewart & Cohen's essays. And the latter two are decent humorists all on their own...
July 13th: John Varley/Ricia Mainhardt (editors) - Superheroes: An anthology of super-hero themed stories. Worth reading for L.K. Hamilton's "A Clean Sweep", Michael Stackpole's "Peer Review", Mike Resnick & Lawrence Shimel's "Super Acorns" and Richard Lee Byers' "Vets" alone...
July 15th: Harry Turtledove - Settling Accounts: The Grapple: Most recent in Turtledove's alt history series of a victorious Confederate State. Focus is on the U.S. push into Confederate territory as well as both nations race towards building the first atom bomb...
July 17th: Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair: First in his Thursday Next series. A must for anyone who is a fan of quirky English scifi (Pratchett, Admas, Rankin, etc)...
July 18th: Jane Smiley - Moo: A school year in the life of students, faculty and giant hog at a vaguely midwestern Ag college...
July 21st: J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix: Reread after seeing the movie...
Robert Parker - School Days: Spenser is hired to prove the innocence of a teen involved in a school shooting...
July 22nd: Rowling - Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows: I'll just say that I was 99% happy with the finale for the series...
Parker - Hugger Mugger: Spenser is hired to investigate who is trying to kill a valuable race horse in a small Southern town. I was actually somewhat disappointed in how this one ended...
July 24th: Pratchett - The Last Hero: A novella featuring Rincewind, Carrot, Leonard daQuirm and Cohen the Barbarian. Illustrated by Paul Kidby. Whats not to love?
July 26th: Jim Butcher - Cursor's Fury: The main villain in this 3rd book of the series is a vile waste of skin. The type of character that makes me have to stop reading because I want to reach in and tear off his face. I hate bullies and I fucking LOATHE rapists. So its an easy trigger for me when one is the big bad in a story...
July 29th: Julian May - The Many Colored Land: First in May's Pliocene Saga, where human misfits from a future intergalatic, multispecies society use a unique time portal to travel back in time to the Pliocene era...
July 31st: Raymond Feist - Into a Dark Realm: Pug and the Conclave now work towards solving the mystery of the Talnoy and beings of the 2nd Plane. While still having to cope with Leso Varen and his master the Mad God...
Total books: 18
New Comics Day
Aug. 1st, 2007 07:29 pmA very light pull this week, with only one book. So I grabbed Ellis' Crecy book where we get a foul-mouthed English archer in the army of King Edward III as it invades France. Like many of Ellis' indy books it is both bloody and horrible and totally fucking awesome at the same time...
As for my regular pull, all that came out this week was New Warriors. And some of the dialogue is definately straining at the seams a bit in this issue. For example one of the investigating officers tells an anecdote about how Spider-Man saved her and her father from a mugger. And then she starts to go off on "What if he'd messed up"? Leaving me to ask, what if he hadn't been there at all you dumb-ass? I remember a time when non-supers support characters in books weren't fucking idiots. Also you get a confrontation between Wolverine and Jubilee. Where he attempts to warn her about its an all new, more dangerous world out there. Gee, really? You think she missed that when she was CRUCIFIED AND LEFT FOR FUCKING DEAD ON YOUR FUCKING FRONT LAWN? Plus Tempest (who I'm unsure who she previously was) needs a new costume. Low-slung hip huggers? Plus what the hell kind of freak show sports bra is she supposed to be wearing as a top? Oh well at least she doesn't have heels and Jubes no longer has the Gigantism of the Boobs...
As for my regular pull, all that came out this week was New Warriors. And some of the dialogue is definately straining at the seams a bit in this issue. For example one of the investigating officers tells an anecdote about how Spider-Man saved her and her father from a mugger. And then she starts to go off on "What if he'd messed up"? Leaving me to ask, what if he hadn't been there at all you dumb-ass? I remember a time when non-supers support characters in books weren't fucking idiots. Also you get a confrontation between Wolverine and Jubilee. Where he attempts to warn her about its an all new, more dangerous world out there. Gee, really? You think she missed that when she was CRUCIFIED AND LEFT FOR FUCKING DEAD ON YOUR FUCKING FRONT LAWN? Plus Tempest (who I'm unsure who she previously was) needs a new costume. Low-slung hip huggers? Plus what the hell kind of freak show sports bra is she supposed to be wearing as a top? Oh well at least she doesn't have heels and Jubes no longer has the Gigantism of the Boobs...