Hmmm, I’d forgotten that Brisingr really isn’t as bad as Eldest.

“I can count, Eragon.” is rather the best line in the book.

And I guess his sword is kinda neat. Especially when Eragon drops it in surprise.

Pretty much anything that mocks Eragon is a-ok with me.

I finished Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim yesterday, when I also started When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

Checked out Reading Like a Writer from the library. Inspiring, but overwhelming at the same time.

That’s a good way to summarize it. I should buy it – I also only borrowed it.

Pretty much what you said.

It also makes me guilty for not reading as much. I need to be reading more good literature, dammit!

@ Marquis: Also, Dead Beat. Any issues you have with the series will be worth it by the end of that one.

I finished The City & the City. It was drier that the other books I’ve read by China Miéville, but that was kind of welcome. It was a great detective story overall, but the ending disappointed me a bit. Now I’m back to reading Discworld (I’m on The Last Continent).

I saw Foundation in B+N but it was so expensive I couldn’t buy it. :(

On the other hand, I finished my borrowed copy of Reading Like A Writer and have determined that I must buy the book for myself and read as many of the recommended novels as possible.

I saw Foundation in B+N but it was so expensive I couldn’t buy it. :(

A local used bookstore should have it. Its where I got mine.

Anyone read The Hunger Games? Best. Books. Ever.

I’m trying to convince lookingforme to read them.

I’d stay straight for Garth Nix.

Anyway. Read The Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield. She was one of the funniest women…

No they’re not. They’re not Eragon bad, but I think that by the end, the main characters are in Sue territory.

One could argue that about Jon Snow from ASOIAF as well. I agree that one of the characters from The Hunger Games may be a Stu. But even though one shouldn’t read a book purely on the plot or the characters, I think The Hunger Games is worth a read, if only for the subject matter.

Yes, I suppose one could say that… :D

I think the climax puts both the main characters in Sue territory. I have some comments in here, if you want to read them.

I think the climax puts both the main characters in Sue territory.

I have to admit, it is very DEM-y. The next book rolls with it, though, because Katniss (who’s seen as the instigator with Peeta as her oblivious pawn) has to deal with the consequences of her actions. Spoilers under the hide.

But Peeta is a bit of a Stu – Katniss, at least, has some faults (like nastiness). Peeta is a little walking Messiah, but he’s a cute walking Messiah, so I’m letting him off easy.

Having indepth online conversations about Animorphs and the nature of war and morality almost makes me want to put down Lirael and pick up Animorphs again.

:D

But I will resist.

Animorphs cannot be resisted. They ARE the resistance.

Hahah, I don’t like breaking off from books midway. And I only have the eBooks (which I really ought to get around to putting on my eReader, good grief).

I have, Platypus!

It’s a good book. Dorian is an insuffereable jerk face, though.

The Picture of Dorian Grey is great! I, like the good Inspector, agree that Dorian is a jerk face but that doesn’t detract from the book’s greatness. However, there are long passages where Dorian sits around just blathering on about perfume and crap like that, so be warned.

I realised the other day that the picture of Dog on the cover of Lirael and Abhorsen is of a German shepherd, I’m going to completely ignore it and block it from my memory (I might have done this already) because I always imagined Dog as a black lab.

Because black labs are awesome.

Because black labs are awesome.

One day, I am going to have a house of my own. And when I do, I will have an enormous black lab. Because black labs are awesome.

Are black and yellow labs less hyper than chocolate labs?

It depends on whether it’s English-bred or American-bred. I know a chocolate lab that is the laziest sloth-like dog on the planet, and I know a black lab that is bounce-off-the-walls-hyper.

It also depends on age. The chocolate lab is 7 or 8, the black lab is 1 1/2.

Late, but I think The Picture of Dorian Grey is one of the best Victorian novels I’ve ever read.

My brother finally got the first book of the Prydain Chronicles! I’m so happy for him.

Going through the final issues of Planetary. While I’m liking the final arc with the Four, I miss the whole “deconstruct the hell out of every genre” premise that it had going.

@ Devin and lookingforme: Yeah, I didn’t read them until the eighth grade and then I realized what I was missing. But my brother always says that he’s looking for something with action, fantasy, and humor, and so I’ve been trying in vain to find The Book of Three for months. He finally got it at a book swap and didn’t get why I was so excited about it. I’m just hoping it will get him into reading something other than Star Wars novelizations.

No, I do NOT want him on here. Mostly because he’ll read all my posts and I will have nowhere to vent.

No, I do NOT want him on here. Mostly because he’ll read all my posts and I will have nowhere to vent.

And honestly, the whole family-on-II thing kind of creeps me out. Me and Puppet don’t count. >.>

Almost finished with Reaper of Souls, then I’m starting The Three Musketeers.

Yup. There’s a lot of licking.

I’m going to amuse myself with reading Stephenie Meyer’s new novella.

Thanks for the lulz, Stephenie Bella.

I’m going to amuse myself with reading Stephenie Meyer’s new novella.

Oh, Bree. I remember her. Actually, while I was a Twihard I actually wondered more about her backstory. I’m actually having fun flipping virtual pages. First impression: these people are whiny.

Can you guys actually remind me who Bree is? Why was she at all significant in Eclipse?

Can you guys actually remind me who Bree is? Why was she at all significant in Eclipse?

She wasn’t significant at all, actually. She was extremely peripheral and a severely minor character.

The newborn army, led by Victoria, is coming to Forks from Seattle. After a big battle between the newborns and the Cullen/ werewolf shapeshifter army, the Volturi descends on the remaining newborns. They decide to punish them for calling attention to the vampires, despite it not being their fault that a revenge-bent vampire turned a bunch of teenagers into ravenous, bloodthirsty monsters. Edward and Bella talk to one newborn, Bree, and Carlisle asks her if she wants to become a vegetarian. She says she does, but the Volturi tells them that that isn’t their decision to make, and kill her. Horribly. It’s portrayed by the book as being extremely unfair and evil.

Well, just from what you’ve told me…isn’t it?

Yes, it is. She’s a teenager who doesn’t know anything about the bigger plans, and was only really thirsty and really young.

From what I’m reading in this novella, though (by skipping ahead shamelessly)?

I also found a short story by Smeyer: “Hell on Earth“

Basically, it’s about angels v.s demons. Not bad, and not terribly interesting either. It’s one of the 5 stories making up one book: “Prom Nights from Hell“.

I’m starting to get sleepy just thinking about it…

The South Park episode about Satan’s Sweet 16 birthday party is all I can think of.

For me, it’s Doom 2.

Hmm, have just finished book. Do I read a new one, or do a re-read?

I have so many new books to read, but I really feel like some fantasy fluff in the form of Green Rider. :3

Nope. But I suspect the only reason that I want to read it is because I finally got it back from my friend after lending it to her eight years ago.

Finished Reading Like a Writer a while back. I highly recommend it to anybody who’s in the Impish Writing club.

I have nine books waiting, including three tomes on philosophy by Hofstadter that I really should get around to.

But I currently have a pile of 57 58 unread books waiting for me.

Regular charity shop visits?
I go in looking for something to waste a couple of hours on, and come out with far too many alluringly cheap and potentially interesting paperbacks.

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. So far, I am greatly disappointed.

Just finished The Princess Bride. I know, I know, I should have read it sooner. After all, I have watched that movie all my life. But yeah. It was wonderful.

@ Dia: I love the book and the movie!

And I have seen Anathem in the library, I just never picked it up. I guess now I should.

@ Dia: I have the book but I didn’t enjoy the way he kept putting down his own story.

The Princess Bride is great. It took me so long to figure out that it wasn’t abridged, just written by a guy who was pretending to abridge something….

I knew going into it, otherwise I would have made the same mistake. :D