Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! “Batman: Year One” by Frank Miller has arrived! 
And almost one month before I expected it to come, at that! 
Additionally, Year One wasn’t the only thing waiting for me when I came home from Røros last night. SFX #154 had also arrived, thus beginning the one year long subscription to that distinguished magazine. (Thanks to Morten for giving me the idea.)
Also, I’ve read WoT this week, and I’m liking it almost as much as I did the first couple of times. Sure, Jordan is no Martin, no Erikson, no Wolfe, but his epic masterpiece (if only because of the sheer weight of the infernal thing) still manages to capture and thrill me. Kudos to him for that!
My WoT reading experience was further enhanced by the rediscovery of what a potent combination music and literature can be. You see, last… Wednesday, I suppose it was, I stayed in bed until 15.45, reading WoT while listening to Queen Greatest Hits II. Both of which I encountered for the first time in the autumn of my first year in “high school”. And the combination of these two works of art almost brought me back to that time, and that… mmm, it was wonderful.
Queen Greatest Hits II also contains some of Queen’s cheesiest songs, and few are more cheesy than the ones they wrote for the Highlander movie. And listening to such awesome songs as “Who Wants To Live Forever”, I was struck by the urge to watch this piece of tripe again, if only to see if it is as horrible as I remember it to be. This urge was further incited by the fact that SFX #154 has an article about Highlander. Speaking of coincidents…
Oh, and last night, I wrote a post about a WoT book in which I used what little knowledge I have of Italo Calvino. How weird is that?
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Probably rather weird, if I’d any clue what you were talking about.
And The Sean is in Highlander, you can’t diss it. It’s like the Bible, yeah, a lot of it sucks, but it’s got stuff in it which makes it so you can’t say.
27. February 2007 @ 02:07 ( Permalink )
“It’s like the Bible, yeah, a lot of it sucks, but it’s got stuff in it which makes it so you can’t say.”
That’s what WoT is like, too.
27. February 2007 @ 02:20 ( Permalink )
Noooo, that’s what WoT would like to be like, but really, really isn’t. SoT has tendencies with Zedd and Nathan, but it never quite gets there, sadly. Or, it did get there, and then it got tore back down, which should be an impossiblity, but they managed anyway. Richard probably found some ancient way of convincing the impossiblity it was wrong by repeating really flat and unconvincing arguments in a heroic manner.
27. February 2007 @ 02:35 ( Permalink )
Speaking of which, have you read “Phantom” yet?
27. February 2007 @ 17:01 ( Permalink )
Nope. It’s waaaay down my list of priorities.
Which currently, up ’til Phantom, looks like this, excluding a few graphic novels which is on a list of their own:
1. Finishing Midnight Tides
2. Bonehunters
3. Jimmy the Hand (only “old” Feist-book in his main world I’ve not read yet)
4. The new Feist-book, the title of which escapes me at the moment
5. Night of Knives or whatever the other guy writing Malazan calls his book
6. At least one series by Robin Hobb ’cause I’ve promised
7. Anansi Boys
8. Something else by Neil Gaiman, probably Neverwhere and the novella-sequel to “American Gods” in Legends II
9. Whatever more Feist, Erikson or Martin has published since the time I write this
10. At least two more Sherlock Holmes-books
11. Phantom
27. February 2007 @ 17:38 ( Permalink )
If I were you, I might consider waiting for the mass-market paperbacks of Bonehunters and Night of Knives. At least of the former. If you care about bookself symmerty, that is. And those trade paperbacks take, like, twice the space of a regular pb.
Anyway, looks like a nice list. Some things on it that’re on mine as well, although I don’t have a specific order, seeing as I just read what I like. (Which I suppose you do, too; lists are nice tools for arranging an overview of what you have in front of you.)
I’m gonna read Phantom when the paperback comes; I plan on picking up Anansi Boys after I’ve finished the book I’m currently reading (Le Guin’s awesome sci-fi The Dispossessed) and The Dragon Reborn (gotta get through the series one last time before A Memory of Light); and Night of Knives, of course.
Beyond that, my list mainly consists of books by Moorcock, Leiber, Vance, Zelazny and Kay. And I’m strying to read some sci-fi as well, seeing as that genre is like the sister of fantasy. And because Martin suggested that one should try to read both genres rather than just one of them.
27. February 2007 @ 18:37 ( Permalink )
I already own the huge Bonehunter-version, I bought the entire series at once. NoK, nope, haven’t bought it yet, we’ll see.
Anansi Boys I’ve bought already too, but I’ve also downloaded the audio-book, and as soon as I’m finished with listening through the Hithchiker’s series (I’m on the last book, but it’s taking me forever, as I don’t like it that much and tend to put on music on my mp3-thingie instead of listening to it) I might listen to it instead of buying it. It will be the first time I ever check out an audio-book without having read it regular-style first, so unsure on whether or not I’ll be able to pay attention. Easy to drift off and lose a couple of lines, and it’s hell rewinding to wherever you were.
As for sci-fi, nah, what little sci-fi I’ve read didn’t tickle my fancy more than any other kind of genre (save fantasy). It’s okay, but it doesn’t do anything for me, except for when it gets fantasy-ish in style, like what little I remember of Dune and most of the Star Wars-books I’ve read.
27. February 2007 @ 21:33 ( Permalink )
“As for sci-fi, nah, what little sci-fi I’ve read didn’t tickle my fancy more than any other kind of genre (save fantasy). It’s okay, but it doesn’t do anything for me, except for when it gets fantasy-ish in style, like what little I remember of Dune and most of the Star Wars-books I’ve read.”
Well, you know me, with my almost annoying habit of reading all kinds of things into all kinds of thing? This is particularly easy to do with the classic sci-fi, because so much of the genre consists of political or moral philosophy. And even though I probably don’t understand shit of it (judging from my posts in the “Religion? No thanks. Marx? Yes Please” post
), I like it.
And books like “Brave New World”, “Fahrenheit 154″, “Does Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and “Neuromancer”, amongst others, are classics, too. And pretentious guys like me have to read the classics, right?
Speaking of classics, I got my hands on no less than three of those today: Homer’s “The Illiad” in a nice Norwegian hardcover edition; a Norwegian translation of “Does Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”; and Jon Gisle’s “Donaldismen”, which I’ve wanted to read for at least five or six years.
1. March 2007 @ 21:10 ( Permalink )