Favorite Books and Current Reads

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Sampson]

Thank you, noodles.

I do like the story. I can tell it's not the usual "magic orgy" type of fantasy, since humans appear to be the dominant species, so of course there will be real life lessons. I think the problem to me is that, so far, the book has been "go to person X so they can direct you to place Y via method Z," making the story, and Goodkind's tone, rigid as a result. When the characters occasionally do something silly, it just feels...out of place. It's hard to explain.

[Kinokokao]

I also find Mord-Sith to absolutely hilarious, but in a good way.

Book 3-4 spoilers:

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Bernadine, Raina and Cara are among my favorite characters. I enjoy their seriousness, although Goodkind does get a little heavy-handed with the melodrama sometimes....

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[eharper256]

[Maxine MagicFox]

So on Wednesday I purchased Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I know they have a movie out and it has been crazy popular which is why I had put it off for so long. That and plus I was worried that it would seem tacky and clash in some way with my own retelling of the classic tales.

I'm glad I picked it up. There's a reason that I enjoy writing for the YA generation. Light, funny, and you can just have fun and do whatever the hell you want with it. For some god unknown reason every fantasy book written for adults always seems to start some huge fucking wizard-war. This is what turned me off from the last books in Harry Potter. If I wanted a wizard-war, I would pick up Tolkien again or even C.S.Lewis.

^_^ I really like how the author did the book and how he managed to fit the Olympians in without making it 'omg major tacky'. And I got quite a few laughs from it. I don't think it was perfect. Actually, I thought the book had... "too much" stuff in it. A lot of - he's there and gets this, oh but within the next hour he's got that, and he just did this the next morning. Some of it felt... too convenient. Meh, whatever, the book is what it is and you can just feel that the author LOVED every second of writing the book. Which makes me love it that much more as well.

I still felt it was too Hogwartsy at the same time, too, though, at the beginning and the end, though I think the author was struggling with making it not seem that way as much as he could. Unfortunately, it's just the easiest possible technique.

^_^ I'm still glad that I read it and it makes me proud of the age group and the genre that I write for.


*sigh* I read too fast, though.... -_-; I wanted to enjoy the book a little more, but I ended up devouring it in three fucking days. (I didn't read it any yesterday.)

[eharper256]

[Kinokokao]

The movie was pretty good, but be warned I'm sure they're very different. My friend has read the series, I have not. In the movie they are like 16-17 though, which I liked.

[Sampson]

Well, I finished Wizard's First Rule. It picked up once I got to the Mud People.

Oh, yes, Mord-Sith.

[spoiler]The fact that Goodkind spent chapter upon chapter describing the various tortures Richard went through is...interesting. Oh, well. It gave him an excuse to go to D'Hara.

And I do like the meaning of the title very much.

Ugh, I was thinking of doing a naughty Kahlan/Richard fic (Kahlan uses her powers on Richard and makes him his slave, standard mind control slash from there on out), but the ending makes that impossible. I tend to like having some canon in my fics. For example, take my NSFW saga. That whole thing is canon.[/spoiler]

[Kinokokao]

[beekee]

[Kinokokao]

[Sampson]

Out of curiosity, do Harry Potter slash fics count as gay wizard literature?

[Kinokokao]

[Twat]

really caught me off guard. Never had I expected that Hanae would be so mischievous. Fuuko is a very reserved girl by nature yet Hanae was really able to set her on fire with passion. It was really cute to see a naive Fuuko shown how it's done, and then for her to do the same for her partner. The tribbing was an excellent climax and having the two exhausted girls holding each other made for a nice last page. Much better than . Do not even want to talk about that one. It's not so much that there is anything wrong with the art or pace so much as I just hate Kazuo. Which is not to say it was not worth the meagre $5.

[Sampson]

I'm reading a dictionary. I can't keep track of all the characters, and the plot doesn't seem to be moving in any one direction.

Am I doing something wrong?