Hey, what's wrong with the True Blood books? :evil:
I read the first one and...eh. It was just okay. Maybe they get better, but it was basically a convoluted mystery novel with a few fangs up in it. I felt a bit let down by the ending.
I liked Grave Sight better.
I haven't read Grave Sight, but yeah, the first is mostly a weird mystery book. I give the series some points because it's set in my state. I also just like the idea of vampires "outing" themselves and the consequences of such. I mean, it's not fantastic fiction, but it's entertaining.
It's true. Where Gaiman is involved, there is no need for that kind of emotion. Bring your smiles and puppy dog flowers, or we kill you.
Also, Anasi Boys isn't so much of a sequel that you really need to have read American Gods first. It stands perfectly well on its own, and I imagine it will be just as fun reading AG second as it was to read it first.
A quick side note about True Blood. I know this isn't about the books, but what the hell was going on with that show? It's probably the only HBO show I've watched to completion in recent memory that I remember thinking wasn't very good, at all. The last few episodes, especially...it blew my mind. Did I miss something that made the unveiling of the villain seem just totally fucking random and out of the blue? The whole final episode, for that matter, seemed pretty terrible.
Got the rest of my sci-fi reading list today. Count Zero, The Forever War, and Little Brother. I've heard of the former two (William Gibson and Joe Haldeman) but never the latter.
Huh, me too. What's the scoop on Little Brother (or as much as you know not having actually, you know, read it yet)?
Still reading Deadhouse Gates. Really slow going, but I think thats because I watch too much tv and play too many videogames.
Crazy awesome shit be happening, but I don't really care about any of the characters...
You don't care about Coltaine?
what the fuck is wrong with you boy.
Also Fiddler is the best.
Coltaine and Fiddler are cool. I like Iskaral Pust as well.
I can see why this series gets compared to Ice and Fire, but I haven't really connected with the characters yet. I don't really care who lives or dies, I mostly just look forward to what crazy magic god stuff will go down next.
In ASOIAF I'm constantly worried if my favorite characters are gonna die, which factions will prevail, and if the people I hate will get theirs. Malazan just seems to be lacking something.
really it's been a book thing for years, twilight just broke it open to the mainstream
it's why vampires are the least awesome form of undead now
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Don't forget the world of darkness vampire mmorpg coming out in 2010.
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Right now we're right in the middle of a vampire backlash, kind of like the one for pirates and ninjas. There's going to be one for zombies pretty soon.
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i think cowboys will be next.
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I've been tired of zombies for quite some time now. I feel the same way about the zombie situation as I do the vampires and ninjas and the rest of it, because while I like them all I'm tired of seeing jackasses use them until they're pounded into dust. All of the zombie chaff is making it hard to find the zombie wheat.
I went on a bit of a reading binge before uni started ramping up again. Read Good Omens, Small Gods and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. I picked up a collection of Chandler's first three stories which is next on the list, followed by Hemmingway's Old Man and the Sea.
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Think I'm just gonna read a sequel and hten pretend the other book is a prequel that was released after.
I haven't read Grave Sight, but yeah, the first is mostly a weird mystery book. I give the series some points because it's set in my state. I also just like the idea of vampires "outing" themselves and the consequences of such. I mean, it's not fantastic fiction, but it's entertaining.
It's true. Where Gaiman is involved, there is no need for that kind of emotion. Bring your smiles and puppy dog flowers, or we kill you.
Also, Anasi Boys isn't so much of a sequel that you really need to have read American Gods first. It stands perfectly well on its own, and I imagine it will be just as fun reading AG second as it was to read it first.
I don't understand why but Finnish people just can't make a straight translation.
So instead it's called The Spidergod.
What the fuck?
It translates without a hitch!
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Reading Imajica is like drilling a hole in your skull so that can Clive Barker can fuck your brain.
Huh, me too. What's the scoop on Little Brother (or as much as you know not having actually, you know, read it yet)?
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it's not a direct sequel, there's one character that appears in both novels but they are totally independent stories.
You should still read American Gods though because it's amazing.
You don't care about Coltaine?
what the fuck is wrong with you boy.
Also Fiddler is the best.
I need to pick this series up. I'll grab the first one this weekend maybe.
Coltaine and Fiddler are cool. I like Iskaral Pust as well.
I can see why this series gets compared to Ice and Fire, but I haven't really connected with the characters yet. I don't really care who lives or dies, I mostly just look forward to what crazy magic god stuff will go down next.
In ASOIAF I'm constantly worried if my favorite characters are gonna die, which factions will prevail, and if the people I hate will get theirs. Malazan just seems to be lacking something.
ASOIAF is much more character driven, while Malazan is very very plot driven, and the cast is so goddamn huge.
though the ending was honestly really confusing at first and I had to re-read it a couple of times before everything clicked
also, now that I've checked the Wiki page for it, I knew there was a reason it started to feel like a Doctor Who story after a certain point
Sexy vampires: the new Hoth?
it's why vampires are the least awesome form of undead now
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
never was big into pirates or ninjas
at least ninjas that don't play shiny red guitars
Zombies just haven't become big enough in mainstream movies that people are tired of them. They inhabit their own genre, and people lap that up
Also reading Summer Knight, I like it so far.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
not as good as zombie rye though
this crisis on infinite earths novelization is pretty good though
after this I am going to read The Professor and The Madman: A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicitionary
it looks like it's from rocko's modern life
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