| Dec. 29th, 2009 @ 10:20 pm Okay soo... |
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Current Location: hometown
Current Mood:  chipper
Current Music: supercell
I know it's been forever since I've been on here, the biggest reason being that Facebook or in person tends to be a faster/easier way of communicating my immediate reactions nowadays. The only reason I'm on here now is because I'm stuck at home, without my friends to bug the shit out of, and my computer's at Geek Squad so I can't self medicate with 4-chan.
ANYWAYS. The real reason I'm on here is because I have been involved in so much awesome stuff over the past couple of days.
This is a long entry, but I barely cut it because it's the first time I've posted in months,and likely the last time I will post for months.
First of all, not chronologically, but Katie-logically, I went to see Sherlock Holmes last night. It kicked butt, and I enjoyed getting to fangirl. I've never read the books, but I got the feeling Holmes and Watson weren't the street-brawl/hand-to-hand specialists they are portrayed as. Although a small part of me hated that inaccuracy, the greater part of me (99% or so) reveled in the chance to see pretty men kicking ass. I confess it's always been a weakness of mine. The possibly intentional slashy undertones had me squeeing in my head. My dad thinks there will be a sequel, and I must agree, although I'm not sure how I feel about them risking the awesome that was this movie by attempting to replicate it.
( Mild spoilers under the cut )
What pushed me over the edge into posting this is this book called Going Bovine, by Libba Bray. This was the weirdest damn book. Tons of physics and metaphysics and wtf-physics and maybeparticles. I read it over the course of a night and a day (in that order) only because I had to get some sleep. It will blow your mind and reconstruct the pieces into something entirely different. It has a lot of sick humor, but sometimes it makes you want to cry. It probably won't change your life, but it will have you looking at yard gnomes and newspapers a little differently. I went on the authors site (http://www.libbabray.com/), and she's dressed up like a cow during her interview, and she just made me think of my friends, who are insane in a good way. It also gave me hope that I might find a job where I don't have to pretend I'm normal. Also, a band mentioned nearly every page in the book, the Copenhagen Interpretation, has a disappointing (no music) but funny website. Allow me to quote:
"Presently we have no special offers, like if you buy three cds you get a free one and a sticker. But if you can make an ice statue of our band and mail us a picture we will give you free tickets for four people."
That plus the fact that they're a space traveling rock band in the book makes it so I have to like them, even if they're music isn't to my taste.
Also, from the book, is this website. http://www.cessnab.com/index.html
It isn't real (I hope) but is important in the book. I wish they had shirts that said don't hate your happiness, but all they have is the flying bowling ball.
I will regale the people who are forced to spend time with me with more details of the book later. For now, I move on to the third awesome of the past two days.
And that would be the first two books of the (so far) trilogy by Megan Whalen Turner. I list only the first two because I haven't located the third...yet. These would be The Thief and The Queen of Attolia. I started the second one, got thirty pages in, and went back to read them in order. Over the past few months, I've been getting a lot of books at the used bookstore in town, but I get them home and realize they're not very good. Either the plot is see through or the characters are cardboard cutouts with voices, or everything is "super-serious," but something is always wrong. I might be a bit more lenient because I just read an excellent book right before I started, and because it's been over a week since I've been near Gwendolyn , but I tend to think it's because it was a young adult novel involving character who were relatively mature, it dealt in unflinching detail with violence, and it was funny, while also being serious. I think in the future I need to look for trickster-esque main characters, they seem to produce more entertaining books. |
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