Virtual housekeeping

[winter]

A very happy birthday to both artela and moustachios :)

In other news, my e-mail works again, and I am going to vivisect my hosting company on a medieval examining table if they pull off one more stunt like that.

I also have nearly 5,000 words of a Coldfire fic for some reason. Woe is me.

Meme from dyoklako:

List five (5) books that you have read and liked. List another five (5) that you plan/will to read. Then list five (5) more that you have read and didn't like and another five (5) you do not plan to read at all. cut and paste the instructions and your own list on your lj/blog.


Read and liked, recently:
1) C.S. Friedman, the Coldfire trilogy (Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, Crown of Shadows)
2) Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
3) Anna Kańtoch, The Devil on the Tower
4) Georgette Heyer, Sylvester (shut up!)
5) C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

Planning to read:
1) Goscinny and Sempé, The New Adventures of Little Nicholas
2) Frances Wilson, The Courtesan's Revenge
3) Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
4) J. Sheridan LeFanu, Carmilla
5) Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

Read and didn't like, recently:
1) Georgette Heyer, Cousin Kate
2) Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, The Snow Fox
3) Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
4) Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (second attempt, still blah)
5) Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, Deus Irae

Do not plan to read at all:
1) Anything about Anita Blake after Narcissus in Chains
2) Any Star Wars Extended Universe book, ever
3) Anything by Hemingway. Read two, enough to tell I hate it
4) Any new Nora Roberts. Plot rehash deja-vu
5) Prince of Tennis, in any shape or form

Comments

In defence of the Extended Universe...

[seferin.livejournal.com]

The novelization of Episode Three was written by someone who knows martial arts, so its actually an interesting read, as you see Dooku's perspectives on styles.

And in Traitor, we get an update on the Taoism of the force... it brings evidence for an EU character, OTHER THAN ANAKIN, as bringing balance to the force.

Re: In defence of the Extended Universe...

[winter]

Novelisations don't count (since I've read three, including the Matthew Stover ROTS one, cue slash squee) :P

My main reason for not reading EU is that it would eat me alive and I'd feel obliged to follow it as canon. SW's one of the fandoms where I don't even read much fic, because so few people have concepts that coincide with mine...

Makes sense.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Although, if you want, I could e-mail you some of the EU in e-book format.

As a plot idea... what if Yoda DID go after Anakin, and Obi-Wan after the emporer... what would happen next, do you think? If Yoda never faced the Emporer, or did not do so in the Senate, what would have happened next?

Might he have attempted to "Retrain" Anakin? Particularly if he did so BEFORE Anakin choked Padme, thus killing her?

eh?

[dyoklako.livejournal.com]

Planning to read:
4) J. Sheridan LeFanu, Carmilla

---- im surprised you haven't read LeFanu's Carmilla! it's good. though i must admit it is hard to find works written by him. i must warn you though that this book is what bram stoker patterned his Dracula novel from. though LeFanu's Carmilla is way more devious than Dracula.

Do not plan to read at all:
5) Prince of Tennis, in any shape or form

---- eh> why? though i had to admit that the anime was crack, the manga is even more enjoyable. still, whatever you prefer. *shrugs*

'later!
;p

Re: eh?

[winter]

Carmilla's one of these things that I've been planning to read forever and somehow never got to it. I'm just hoping to like Carmilla enough to acquire a female vampire muse, because my current stable of Broody Volatile Vampires is getting a bit out of hand ;)

Prince of Tennis is a long story - suffice it to say I've been saying that since it first came out. Too many brains on my f-list were eaten by it and I'm not going to share that sorry fate :> I'm irrational about things like that, same reason I'm boycotting the johari/nohari memes.

Re: Makes sense.

[winter]

I'm afraid Yoda would have just killed Anakin (probably by tricking him into doing something stupid, always an option with our Ani) and then either get killed by the Emperor or manage to kill him while doing it. Most probable end effect, the Republic/Empire disintegrates. Not the best theme for fiction, at least the character-driven kind I write ;)

Re: eh?

[dyoklako.livejournal.com]

Tenipri - ahahahahahah!!!! XD i can understand that. me? i am enjoying it but not to the point of doing fics for them or even collecting them. ^^"

Carmilla - enjoy reading the book. it IS good! she is really a nice character study.

'later!
;p

[mayoini.livejournal.com]

5) Prince of Tennis, in any shape or form

LOL, same goes for me! ^^v

[winter]

We should start a club or something ^^V

Re: eh?

[winter]

I've just started Carmilla, since there's no time like the present, and I am enjoying it immensely :)

Re: eh?

[dyoklako.livejournal.com]

good for you! i hope you'll be able to get other works by Sheridan LeFanu as he is a better writer than Bram Stoker even if it is harder to look for his works but they're worth it. :)