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*waves like a mad thing*

Sorry for disappearing. I just upped and went to stay with nan for a few months. Needed the change of air, the rest and the time to think. Then I went to stay a bit with Fleur. Then, when I came back, I moved. :-D

I'm finally settled in my new flat - ground floor, stairs are not knee-friendly things - and my new life.

HUGZ to all.

Y'know, I've really lost the typing habit, have done a LOT of verbal communication and practically none of the written one, it feels awfully odd right now. BUT! I have Deep Thoughts on some things with which I'll bore you all to tears quite soon. I also have a fic gestating, but I don't know if I'm going to inflict it on you.

Soooo... read any good book lately?

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Hey! *waves and HUGS back* Good to see you again! :D

Hmm, good books? A few, I guess. Ones that come to mind is A Clockwork Orange (I loved the writing, though I hated the moral), The Golden Compass (great stuff all around. Also, bears. Can't go wrong with bears. =]) and Duty Calls (though I'm somewhat embarrassed about liking that one so much, since it's really just space opera with no character development and not deeper themes of any sort. But I just adored the main character, who's a bastard hero who probably isn't as much of a bastard as he thinks he is). Oh, and Un Lun Dun (China Miéville is now officially one of my literary heroes - that book is yet another example that proves that children's lit doesn't have to be dumb). And there is something to be said for The Dead Fathers' Club by Matt Haig, if you feel like a somewhat disturbing retelling of Hamlet. :)

My exact opinions on each of these are of course available under the "review" tag in my journal. Your comments would be most welcome. :D

Ah, yes, Clockwork Orange, one of the very few cases in which the film was actually SO much better than the book. The language thing is cute, though its blatant political slant is quite tiresome. Writing good enough, yeh, but it's a book that I could only read once because it pissed me off utterly.

Pullman I detest, do I have to explain why? :P :P :P

Off to read about the other books - I think I'll buy them - and spam your LJ a bit. :-D

P.S. Very good to see you again, Mr Feminist Viking.

I don't mind a political slant. I just hated the particular point he was making.

Pullman I detest, do I have to explain why? :P :P :P

You might, actually. ^_^; I thought you'd like him. Unless... oh, please don't tell me that Lyra wusses out in the second and third book and becomes a damsel in distress. If so, I am tempted to suggest a road trip to go throw rocks at Mr Pullman's house. -_-;

P.S. Very good to see you again, Mr Feminist Viking.

Why, thank you. I tip my horned helmet to you. =]

The second and third books are a sad letdown. If I were you I'd avoid them like the plague and live happy in the pleasure of a rather good first book. Pretend PP has died in a freak accident involving bears and read Malory.

In other news, I've been weeping like a Victorian heroine because in my self enforced exile from the netz I'd missed the news about Pterry's Alzheimer. I'm devastated.

The second and third books are a sad letdown. If I were you I'd avoid them like the plague and live happy in the pleasure of a rather good first book. Pretend PP has died in a freak accident involving bears and read Malory.

Your advice is well-meant and gratefully accepted. Unfortunately, hearing about how horrible some book is always makes me curious enough to buy it... ^_^;

In other news, I've been weeping like a Victorian heroine because in my self enforced exile from the netz I'd missed the news about Pterry's Alzheimer. I'm devastated.

*hugs* Yeah. I don't blame you. When I heard, all I wanted to do was swear or hit something.

I have now read The Subtle Knife.

This is my head. This is my desk. This is my head meeting my desk with great force!

Throwing stones at Pullman's house is starting to sound more tempting.

Eve. Gaah. Of all the hackneyed, clichéd, dehumanising, sexist, idiotic... Eve!

TOLD YOU!

But... But I do understand 'cause I'm the same. I've bought and read (or read at library) some HUGE steaming mounds of manure exactly because I'd been warned against them.

So maybe I told you how awful the things are to force you to read them in a sadistic 'Let's Spread The Misery' thing. MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

*ahem*

What I mean, naturally, is that I'm sorry you had to suffer through it. :-D

Oh, look! For once I responded in a stereotypically feminine way and you in a stereotypically manly way.

Maybe shocking news make people lean on the cultural stereotypes for comfort or because one is too shocked to think things through? I've no idea. Must think on this.

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