Because of the extensive coverage of the American presidential election in the last couple of weeks, I’ve suddenly found myself wanting to see the complete West Wing series — of which I’ve seen the occasional season, but never the whole shebang. Subsequently, I go to Amazon.co.uk, search for “west wing”, and get this as one [...]
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Everyone should collect things. Me? I collect fantasy literature, comics, DVDs of various genres, and books, more generally speaking. Oh, and CDs. Gotta remember the CDs. Of various genres, of course. Pluralism rocks.
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
1926.
273 pages.
Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks.
Foreword by Neil Gaiman.
Where the rivers Dapple and Dawl converge is situated the small country port of Lud-in-the-Mist, capital of the free state of Dorimare. From here, the burghers send their trading ships out into the world, bringing back wealth to the upper strata of Dorimarite society. But Lud and Dorimare has [...]
Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
(If this isn’t my best review, please bear over with me; it’s been over two months since I read this book.)
2001 (1970, 1962, 1970).
165 pages.
“Induction” (2 pages)
“The Snow Women” (74 pages)
“The Unholy Grail” (27 pages)
“Ill Met in Lankhmar” (62 pages)
Swords and Deviltry is the first collection of short stories in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks series’ [...]
The Sword and the Sorcerer
The Sword and the Sorcerer is one of the many fantasy movies produced in the early 1980s, most of which have in common that they are so full of cheese and plot-holes you might think they’re Swiss.
In this particular case, the plot revolves around the kingdom of Eh Dan (Edain, anyone? Or Eng Land?), peaceably [...]
Wastin’ money
Be that as it may, seeing as I don’t think I’ll fail any of my exams, I decided to take a quick trip downtown, to visit my favourite purveyors of fine leisure activities.
The first of these was Avalon, also known as Gotham. I was primarily looking for John Scalzi’s Ghost Brigades, but it as turned [...]
Concerning music and laziness…
I used to like Minor Majority. I considered them to be one of my favourite Norwegian bands of all time, and there were few things in the world that could soothe me and calm my nerves more effectively than the first couple of chords of “Think I’m Up For You And I”. And the album [...]
Concerning postage…
I never got the first issue of Buffy s8 from my Outland subscription, so I had to register at Things From Another World’s web store, and get it from there.
The comic itself cost me $2.39. I paid $0.25 to have it bagged and boarded. And finally there was the tiny shipping cost of $8.21.
Almost made [...]
‘Tis been a good day, so far…
First, I took my NwN Dwarven monk through a couple of levels. Which is always fun, as they get so many feats and special abilities, it’s a treat to play them. Then, just as I had cleared level 7 and killed Head Gaoler Aelfinn, I was roused by my flatmates who desired my company for [...]
Ultimate X-Men, issues 66-74 and Annual #2
Marvel finally published the seventh Ultimate X-Men hardcover, collecting “Date Night”, “Phoenix”, Magical”, “Breaking Point” and the second annual, “Why Xavier’s Cat Is Named Mystique”. The four normal “issue-collections” — “Date Night”, “Phoenix”, Magical” and “Breaking Point” — dealt with pretty much the same storylines. the Professor’s dealings with the Shi’ar; Jean’s relationship with Cyclops [...]
By popular demand: “Lyonesse” reviewed.
”Lyonesse”
by Jack Vance.
My copy was published by Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks, and the “Lyonesse” trilogy consists of:
– “Suldrun’s Garden”, 1983, 434 p.
– “The Green Pearl“, 1985, 378 p.
– “Madouc”, 1989, 400 p.
In the Cantabrian Gulf, in what is today known as the Bay of Biscay, between Galicia, Aquitaine, Armorica, Britain and Ireland, there was once a [...]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, part III
Whoa.
And when I was done, Queen’s “You Take My Breath Away” was next in line in my WMP playlist. How’s that for a coincidence?
Half-way evil Willow.
A Angel-Buffy(in-nurse-costume)-Spike dream landscape with barbed wire.
Fi fa fucking fum.
“Ladies and other ladies… the indescribable Rosenberg.” - Xander.
“Well, this is really unimpressive. One attack by the undead and Renee has [...]
Lucifer: Evensong
“Evenson” is “Lucifer”’s version of “The Wake” — a volume for wrapping up loose ends, and making sure that all the major characters get to say farewell. In comparison to “Morningstar”, which concluded the series’ main plot arc with a rather flamboyant crescendo, “Evensong” is more relaxed, less tense, and reminds me a lot of [...]
Television Shows — What Else Is There (Time For)?
Sigh.
I just sat down to plan which TV shows I’ll watch in the next couple of months, and I currently feel as if I’m in the infamous time squize, or whatever one should call it.
Because first of all, I have over half of season 4 and all of season 5 of Angel left to watch [...]
The Day Of The Ohmygodsrichardgereandbrucewillisand- therestofthemoronsshouldbekilled
Ah, ’tis been a long day. I stayed in bed ’till 11, and intended to get through breakfast in a jiffy, so that I wouldn’t have to use more time than necessary on cleaning the appartement. However, one of my “room mates” (more like “appartement sharer”, really, but that’s stricktly speaking not a word; it’s [...]
w00t! yayz0r! And some more restrained comments.
First of all, lets get all this emotion out of the way:
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 [...]
Oh, and…
… the “Firefly” DVD I had to order because of Loki (okay, so here’s my contribution for the “Worst Excuse of 2007 Award” ) arrived yesterday!
Which means that as soon as I’ve force-fed my sister the last couple of episodes of VM (this show really stands to be watched a second time, I’ve [...]
Couple o’ updates more
1. I just wrote a new page, entitled “Buffysodes”, on which I’ve put links to all my quasi reviews of Buffysodes. In time, it might be renamed to just “’sodes” or something, and have links to more reviews, but for now this is all there is. It’s primarily written as a service to my sister, [...]
“Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel”
I read this quick little introduction to the history of graphic novels on Thursday, and I gotta say it was quite good. Naturally, I’m not too versed in the history of these things myself, but the book didn’t seem to disagree with what little I knew from earlier.
First there was a couple of chapters dealing [...]
The Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks
Wow. Just wow.
I feel all giddy inside — Ultimate X-Men “Tomorrow’s People” #1-6
Wow, that was one hell of an introduction. Quite a bit different from what I expected, but seeing as my expectations were largely built upon the goodnes that are the X-Men films, that was to be expected. The relationships between the characters were somewhat different, although not altogether dissimilar, as were some backgrounds and such. [...]
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