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yuuagoFinished The Storm of War. I really enjoyed it, but by the end I was definitely ready to be done with it. It ws a great read, but of course the subject was mentall exhausting.
Went through a volume of Black Jack as a palate cleanser... I think that I only have two volumes of that series left, which is terrible. On the other hand, I don't remember much from the previous volumes, so I could always re-read them. Now that I think of it, that'd be an excellent idea. Black Jack is a series that just never gets old.
Also started reading Jo Nesbø's The Devil's Star. I've been reading the entire Harry Hole series ass-backwards, which is understandable because the English translations were published ass-backwards, but now that everything is properly out, I've been trying to read the remaining ones in the proper order. But, anyway.
I'm barely into this, but it reminded me of one thing Nesbø does really well: write villains that I absolutely loathe. Usually I feel kind of indifferent to villains, though I do occasionally find myself interested in them if they're especially charismatic. But this one character of Nesbø's... hoo boy. He's everything I hate packaged up into one person, and the worst thing is, THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THAT, or at least people who are a smaller version of that. ... What I mean is, I find this particular character is a believable villain for a real-world setting like that. And that's awesome. Even if I utterly despise that character and some parts of the other novels have made me want to throw 'em against a wall. I expect this one will be the same.
When I was sorting through my books today I had one of those "FUCK IT, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO READ" moments. Except... I have plenty to read; just hardly anything that I want to read right now. Alas.
Went through a volume of Black Jack as a palate cleanser... I think that I only have two volumes of that series left, which is terrible. On the other hand, I don't remember much from the previous volumes, so I could always re-read them. Now that I think of it, that'd be an excellent idea. Black Jack is a series that just never gets old.
Also started reading Jo Nesbø's The Devil's Star. I've been reading the entire Harry Hole series ass-backwards, which is understandable because the English translations were published ass-backwards, but now that everything is properly out, I've been trying to read the remaining ones in the proper order. But, anyway.
I'm barely into this, but it reminded me of one thing Nesbø does really well: write villains that I absolutely loathe. Usually I feel kind of indifferent to villains, though I do occasionally find myself interested in them if they're especially charismatic. But this one character of Nesbø's... hoo boy. He's everything I hate packaged up into one person, and the worst thing is, THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THAT, or at least people who are a smaller version of that. ... What I mean is, I find this particular character is a believable villain for a real-world setting like that. And that's awesome. Even if I utterly despise that character and some parts of the other novels have made me want to throw 'em against a wall. I expect this one will be the same.
When I was sorting through my books today I had one of those "FUCK IT, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO READ" moments. Except... I have plenty to read; just hardly anything that I want to read right now. Alas.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.