Burning Down

So far yeah, because I was never interested in it before so I never bothered looking anything up.

bob.

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A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

GravitySlips

Just finished Lolita by Nabokov. What an elegant fukin' writer! Enjoyed it a lot, although small parts did drag. Now I need to see the film again.

Gonna start reading Pale Fire tonight at work.

James

Been reading a collection of Henrik Ibsen's plays, blowing my mind.

hate paper doll

Just finished Totally Wired, Simon Reynolds' follow up to Rip It Up And Start Again. I enjoyed it, there were some great interviews from Mark Mothersbaugh, Linder Sterling, Alan Vega, etc.

Next on the list is Philip Roth's The Human Stain, and Deborah Curtis' book about Ian, Touching From A Distance.

ladyislingering

Picked up Stephen King's "Carrie" for $1.75 the other day at the bookstore, just for fun.

This is one of those things where the book is definitely better than the film.

(But the original film is still best. Sissy Spacek is the cutest.)

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Paedantic Basterd

It's been nearly 2 years since I quit reading the Wheel of Time series because the fifth book pissed me off.

Picked it back up again with intent to power through to the end of it. Currently on Lord of Chaos.

The Batlord

If it pissed you off cause the series started to slow the **** down, then I don't know if you're gonna want to keep going. Down the line I'm pretty sure they used an entire book for some of the characters to go down a road. Possibly a second as well. After Jordan died and the new guy took over the pace picks back up (for obvious reasons), but that's like book 12. I only kept reading just because I liked the characters, but it was a serious slog at times.

Of course if the benevolent sexism is what pisses you off then just be glad you're not reading the Sword of Truth series.

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Paedantic Basterd

The pace is not a major factor, although I'm pretty positive each one of these books could be about 200 pages shorter with all of the worthless braid-tugging omitted. Book 5 pissed me off because it undid everything it accomplished in 800-odd pages with a single chapter where Jordan putzed-out of the actual event by having the chapter's protagonist pass out and come-to with everything resolved.

Also, I hated what he'd done with Aviendha and Rand.

I will admit I'm growing tired of his inability to write female characters though. Literally every single one of them is "made a strong female" by being written stubborn as an ox, and it's difficult to tell any of them apart when you get down to personality.

But my interest has been renewed, and a great many of my friends claim I should trust them and persevere, so I will do so until the next thing makes me angry enough to drop it for a year or two.

The Batlord

It's been a while since I read those books, so would you mind refreshing my memory?

True, but I guess if I'm truly bothered by anything it's that he seems to have the men be put upon by the women as if you're supposed to root for the men to come out on top in the end as a victory for men everywhere. But in general Jordan seems to be clueless rather than seriously misogynistic, so I usually ignore it.

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