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I've been following the Empress' advice and keeping short stories for bedtime reading, so that I actually get some sleep, instead of getting caught up in the story and not going to to bed until 1 ay-em. :O It helps if they're not very good though.
I was excited about Speaking with the Angel, wherein Nick Hornby got a bunch of his friends and family to write stories to benefit the autism school his son attends, esp. since Colin Firth wrote for him! Unfortunately, the stories are terrible. Not only can Colin Firth not sing, he can't write. I mean, it's grammatical and even coherent, but why would I read this? Several professional writers contributed as well and I enjoyed Robert Harris' and Helen Fieldings' stories, but really, there's no real reason to ever pick this one up :(
I was looking for the second Firefly graphic novel and instead found that Joss Whedon wrote an X-men graphic novel. I hadn't realized how well my comic book dealer has been taking care of me, giving me things I might enjoy without knowing all the backstory, until I randomly tried to read this. Look, I've only seen the movies, so I don't know who Nick Fury or Peter Rasputin are, and the only reason I recognized Emma Frost is bc said comic book dealer once mentioned her as being hot. Fail. I recognize it's on my part, for trying to randomly pick up a comic book, not the author's.
I loved the Jim Butcher Harry Dresden story from Mean Streets, but the Simon R. Green Nightside story was so bad, I'm scared to read the rest of the book. I thought I'd read a different Nightside story once upon a time, but this was so annoying, surely I'd remember reading anything like it. Maybe it's a convention of the noir-mystery genre, but every single page was half description and really, after the first three times you described why Nightside is not safe for nice people, I got it. Really. Show, don't fargin' tell. The other problem is that the apex of the depravity of this place is sex with a computer (spoiler) and really, once you've lost a day to reading robot pr0n, it's not a big deal. Is the rest of his stuff better?
Oh well, the library sent me pretty much half my request list, so I came home yesterday with a shopping bag full of books. Surely there'll be something good in there...
I was excited about Speaking with the Angel, wherein Nick Hornby got a bunch of his friends and family to write stories to benefit the autism school his son attends, esp. since Colin Firth wrote for him! Unfortunately, the stories are terrible. Not only can Colin Firth not sing, he can't write. I mean, it's grammatical and even coherent, but why would I read this? Several professional writers contributed as well and I enjoyed Robert Harris' and Helen Fieldings' stories, but really, there's no real reason to ever pick this one up :(
I was looking for the second Firefly graphic novel and instead found that Joss Whedon wrote an X-men graphic novel. I hadn't realized how well my comic book dealer has been taking care of me, giving me things I might enjoy without knowing all the backstory, until I randomly tried to read this. Look, I've only seen the movies, so I don't know who Nick Fury or Peter Rasputin are, and the only reason I recognized Emma Frost is bc said comic book dealer once mentioned her as being hot. Fail. I recognize it's on my part, for trying to randomly pick up a comic book, not the author's.
I loved the Jim Butcher Harry Dresden story from Mean Streets, but the Simon R. Green Nightside story was so bad, I'm scared to read the rest of the book. I thought I'd read a different Nightside story once upon a time, but this was so annoying, surely I'd remember reading anything like it. Maybe it's a convention of the noir-mystery genre, but every single page was half description and really, after the first three times you described why Nightside is not safe for nice people, I got it. Really. Show, don't fargin' tell. The other problem is that the apex of the depravity of this place is sex with a computer (spoiler) and really, once you've lost a day to reading robot pr0n, it's not a big deal. Is the rest of his stuff better?
Oh well, the library sent me pretty much half my request list, so I came home yesterday with a shopping bag full of books. Surely there'll be something good in there...