Broken Wimpy
Mar. 24th, 2010 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouThe Broken Sword, by Poul Anderson (reread)
My friend showed me this book and said it was deeply weird and pretty bleak and I didn't think I was in the mood for it but then I had a flashback to reading it as a teenager and I realized I was in the mood and then a few days later I read it and I really liked it and it's kind of like a Norse saga and kind of like Shakespeare and kind of like Sophocles and mostly like "oh THAT was what D&D was drawing from besides Tolkien". *deep breath* So, you know, if that sounds good to you, you should read it. Other random statements about this book: I could tell the author had read Eddington, too. It was originally written in the 50s and the version I read was repubbed in the 70s. My favorite line from this book (not really a spoiler) is "Dead, dead, all dead, all slain." The fact that that isn't really a spoiler probably tells you as much about the story as anything else I might say.
(53/200)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, by Jeff Kinney
Oddly compelling - I thought they were just okay (though I would've loved them at the right age) and yet I couldn't put them down. Guess my subconscious & conscious minds were in disagreement. The humor was not LOL so much as "ha, I remember that".
(54/200, 55/200, 56/200)
My friend showed me this book and said it was deeply weird and pretty bleak and I didn't think I was in the mood for it but then I had a flashback to reading it as a teenager and I realized I was in the mood and then a few days later I read it and I really liked it and it's kind of like a Norse saga and kind of like Shakespeare and kind of like Sophocles and mostly like "oh THAT was what D&D was drawing from besides Tolkien". *deep breath* So, you know, if that sounds good to you, you should read it. Other random statements about this book: I could tell the author had read Eddington, too. It was originally written in the 50s and the version I read was repubbed in the 70s. My favorite line from this book (not really a spoiler) is "Dead, dead, all dead, all slain." The fact that that isn't really a spoiler probably tells you as much about the story as anything else I might say.
(53/200)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, by Jeff Kinney
Oddly compelling - I thought they were just okay (though I would've loved them at the right age) and yet I couldn't put them down. Guess my subconscious & conscious minds were in disagreement. The humor was not LOL so much as "ha, I remember that".
(54/200, 55/200, 56/200)
