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I got up at 5 am this morning and accompanied Jasper to Heathrow, where she caught the 12 pm plane back to Washington. It's 5:30 pm now, and she'll be landing in about two hours. I'll see her next on Dec 11.
Also, we went to Cardiff, and since Aug 24, I've been officially wearing a narrow titanium ring with YANA engraved on the inside. No pictures, unfortunately, because I didn't take any (my camera broke last summer) and I forgot to copy the ones Jasper took off her camera. Suffice to say, the Cardiff trip was a good four days. Despite occasional rain.
I found Stephen King's Under The Dome at a used book store in Cardiff, and as a Constant Reader, of course I had to snag it. For a book of almost 900 pages, it's a pretty quick read--I finished it just now.
I enjoyed it. His last few books have all been very--well, I always felt he was writing too much what people were expecting him to write, rather than writing what he's actually good at. Dome felt more like an old-school King book. He did that thing where he creates a community and then deconstructs them, usually in gory and violent and unpretty ways. It wasn't as good as Needful Things, which is still my all-time favorite, but it was good. He actually managed to have some female characters who weren't completely useless, even though he did perpetuate his habit of falling back on the old and-the-female-cried-and-hid-her-face-against-the-chest-of-the-male thing, even for characters where it would be more IC for it to happen the other way around. But yeah. I could see him trying. Good for you, Mr King.
Lol ridiculously high death count, though. In the first twenty-five pages, more than ten characters die, and it doesn't exactly slow down at any point. But then, he had a cast of about 3,000 characters, in all--including extras--so, you know. It worked.
One thing, though--I wish his heroes were a bit less flawless and white-knight-y. Yes, I crushed on Alan Pangborn when I was 14, but hey, I was 14. Give them some faults, come on. And not just something ~horrible~ they did in their past as a soldier in Iraq, which haunts them in nightmares and turns them into humble martyrs but which wasn't really their fault, no sir. Sigh. Let something be their fault. Characters are much more interesting when they make unforgivable mistakes once in a while.
Good book, though. Entertaining. It made me want to re-read Needful Things.
Now I think I will make dinner. And think about ending my hiatus at the roleplay comm I recently joined. I am playing Ray Kowalski. He's trying to hit on T'Pol. It's hilarious.
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Also, we went to Cardiff, and since Aug 24, I've been officially wearing a narrow titanium ring with YANA engraved on the inside. No pictures, unfortunately, because I didn't take any (my camera broke last summer) and I forgot to copy the ones Jasper took off her camera. Suffice to say, the Cardiff trip was a good four days. Despite occasional rain.
I found Stephen King's Under The Dome at a used book store in Cardiff, and as a Constant Reader, of course I had to snag it. For a book of almost 900 pages, it's a pretty quick read--I finished it just now.
I enjoyed it. His last few books have all been very--well, I always felt he was writing too much what people were expecting him to write, rather than writing what he's actually good at. Dome felt more like an old-school King book. He did that thing where he creates a community and then deconstructs them, usually in gory and violent and unpretty ways. It wasn't as good as Needful Things, which is still my all-time favorite, but it was good. He actually managed to have some female characters who weren't completely useless, even though he did perpetuate his habit of falling back on the old and-the-female-cried-and-hid-her-face-against-the-chest-of-the-male thing, even for characters where it would be more IC for it to happen the other way around. But yeah. I could see him trying. Good for you, Mr King.
Lol ridiculously high death count, though. In the first twenty-five pages, more than ten characters die, and it doesn't exactly slow down at any point. But then, he had a cast of about 3,000 characters, in all--including extras--so, you know. It worked.
One thing, though--I wish his heroes were a bit less flawless and white-knight-y. Yes, I crushed on Alan Pangborn when I was 14, but hey, I was 14. Give them some faults, come on. And not just something ~horrible~ they did in their past as a soldier in Iraq, which haunts them in nightmares and turns them into humble martyrs but which wasn't really their fault, no sir. Sigh. Let something be their fault. Characters are much more interesting when they make unforgivable mistakes once in a while.
Good book, though. Entertaining. It made me want to re-read Needful Things.
Now I think I will make dinner. And think about ending my hiatus at the roleplay comm I recently joined. I am playing Ray Kowalski. He's trying to hit on T'Pol. It's hilarious.
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