Let Me Tell You About My Paladin
we still doing the what we're reading/etc thing?
sure, why not. Last week I ran out of both books and video games on the same night. Which was of course the night before my only real day off during the week. So I was left to the desperate measures of downloading Arkanoid on my xbox.
After all this time, the Amiga version from the 80's is the best one I've seen.
Anyway, I finished off the Night Angel trilogy from Brent Weeks. The Assassin's Creed ripoff cover caught my attention but then made me dismiss the series for the longest time. Not bad books. He ends up cramming what I'd consider 2 books worth into the third one, so it felt rushed and a bit unsatisfying at the conclusion, but I found them to be worth a read.
The main character is a sort of quasi immortal anti hero assassin. Not to be confused with the anti hero assassin from Robin Hobb's books.
Read the latest Harry Bosch book last night. A bit darker than his usual, but good if too quick a read. Read Bourne Identity. The movie needed to have followed the book a bit more closely. At least where Marie was concerned, rather than completely trivializing the only real female role.
Playing Borderlands on xbox. Its touted as the marriage between first person shooter and RPG. So far its delivering entertainment. It has up to 4 person co-op play that people can come and go from at their leisure. Its essentially set somewhere between Mad Max and Fallout but has enough of its own style to come off more as homage than outright robbery.
This will have to tide me over until Dragon Age Origins comes out. If done properly, this could be another Oblivion as far as proper fantasy RPG goes in the video game world. We shall see in a couple of weeks.
Finished up the MST3K offerings that netflix had on instant play. there were fewer of them that I thought, which makes me sad.
Thought of the day: if you're going to do something terrible to someone in the US then make sure they are the same race and sexual orientation that you are. otherwise its illegaler.
After all this time, the Amiga version from the 80's is the best one I've seen.
Anyway, I finished off the Night Angel trilogy from Brent Weeks. The Assassin's Creed ripoff cover caught my attention but then made me dismiss the series for the longest time. Not bad books. He ends up cramming what I'd consider 2 books worth into the third one, so it felt rushed and a bit unsatisfying at the conclusion, but I found them to be worth a read.
The main character is a sort of quasi immortal anti hero assassin. Not to be confused with the anti hero assassin from Robin Hobb's books.
Read the latest Harry Bosch book last night. A bit darker than his usual, but good if too quick a read. Read Bourne Identity. The movie needed to have followed the book a bit more closely. At least where Marie was concerned, rather than completely trivializing the only real female role.
Playing Borderlands on xbox. Its touted as the marriage between first person shooter and RPG. So far its delivering entertainment. It has up to 4 person co-op play that people can come and go from at their leisure. Its essentially set somewhere between Mad Max and Fallout but has enough of its own style to come off more as homage than outright robbery.
This will have to tide me over until Dragon Age Origins comes out. If done properly, this could be another Oblivion as far as proper fantasy RPG goes in the video game world. We shall see in a couple of weeks.
Finished up the MST3K offerings that netflix had on instant play. there were fewer of them that I thought, which makes me sad.
Thought of the day: if you're going to do something terrible to someone in the US then make sure they are the same race and sexual orientation that you are. otherwise its illegaler.
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Permalink Reply by Sir Golgotha, KEoPS on -
I just caught up on the Vaughan and Whedon runs of Runaways. I found the lead characters to be nuanced very differently between the two writers. I'm also reading Weapons & Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Warrior 1000-1500 AD, The Experience of Dying, Death Discs, Ghost Hunters, and Medieval Warfare Source Book.
In movies, we just bought a bag full of cheap DVDs. These are all compilation DVDs, with three or more films per, each with a different theme. One is about Vampires, and another is horror films about/set on trains. Another is a sci-fi set starring Katee Sackhoff and Katee Sackhoff's cleavage. These were all about five dollars US per set. Though I had never even heard of most of the films before, we are getting many evenings' worth of entertainment for less than what we would otherwise be spending on a single night out with the Little Redhaired Girl.
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Permalink Reply by Deidzoeb on
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Just a wild guess on the horror on trains set -- does it include Horror Express with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas?
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Permalink Reply by Xose Lucero on -
That's the first one I thought of too! One of the rare non-villain roles for Christopher Lee, which is not to say that he plays a nice guy.
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Permalink Reply by Sir Golgotha, KEoPS on
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That film is the reason I picked up that particular set.
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Permalink Reply by Pete Black on
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As a Diskworld fan, I agree that the Wincewind books are the weakest of the lot. Rincewind books are parodies of fantasy in general. Fantasy is pretty goofy to start with so it can be hard to tell when someone is parodying it, The City Watch books are my favorite, which riff of other genres, and the Witches, which mostly re-tell Shakespeare stories from the POV of the three witches from Macbeth.
For what its worth, the books I'm currently reading are:
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Bradly Denton.
The Metatemporal Detective, Michael Moorcock.
Just After Sunset, the last SKing book of shorts.
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