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Bookkeeping
Aug. 5th, 2008 02:28 pm15. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Having read this, the trailer fills me with even more glee. And a modern film adaption was the best thing that could have happened to these people, sartorially. Now I get to sit back and pray they won't fuck it up.
The moral of this book, among many others, is a) read some damn poetry, and try it with context, and b) even in 1985 there is no excuse for having such an obvious computer password.
16. Ilario: The Stone Golem - Mary Gentle
On the one hand, these books wander, and I would have liked the plot to be tighter and stronger. (And a lot of the fabulously cool cool-shit explored more, but that's me.) There's a hell of a lot of repetition, too--not just Rekhmire's big hands, but character interactions and conversations that seemed to happen a few too many times. And the relationship could have happened at the end of book one, I think. I would have liked more pay-off for the wait, but that's a personal gripe.
On the other hand--hermaphrodite and hot eunuchfight crime navigate court intrigue! And the artistic descriptions and the way Ilario sees things are so note-perfect it makes me want to cry and run back to art school. That pays for a hell of a lot.
Having read this, the trailer fills me with even more glee. And a modern film adaption was the best thing that could have happened to these people, sartorially. Now I get to sit back and pray they won't fuck it up.
The moral of this book, among many others, is a) read some damn poetry, and try it with context, and b) even in 1985 there is no excuse for having such an obvious computer password.
16. Ilario: The Stone Golem - Mary Gentle
On the one hand, these books wander, and I would have liked the plot to be tighter and stronger. (And a lot of the fabulously cool cool-shit explored more, but that's me.) There's a hell of a lot of repetition, too--not just Rekhmire's big hands, but character interactions and conversations that seemed to happen a few too many times. And the relationship could have happened at the end of book one, I think. I would have liked more pay-off for the wait, but that's a personal gripe.
On the other hand--hermaphrodite and hot eunuch
