Metal Reviews

Yes. Is Feet of Clay the one about the golems getting rights? Was pretty good, if memory serves.

I read Making Money- wasn't impressed. One of Pratchett's inevitable duds. Which just means that the next one will be funny.

All Pratchett fans should check out his under appreciated Small Gods, my favourite Pratchett book by far.

Darn, really? Pity. Small Gods is excellent, probably my favourite of his.

Did you like GBY Mr. Rosewater?

I've read a lot of Vonnegut (ie: Cat's Cradle, SH5, Breakfast/Champions, Player Piano and Galapagos) mainly his more popular ones but never those two. Sirens of Titan is also supposed to be good but I haven't got around to it buying it.

I've read Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions, Mr Rosewater was a lot like those. Written in sort of the same simple style with lots of cynicism.

So far Bluebeard is pretty different from his other stuff.

Small Gods was awesome, one of my favourite Pratchett novels :o

A Sound of Thunder

A shite film based on that Ray Bradbury story of going back in time to kill dinosaurs on safari.

It was pretty ok in a "this is both terrible and stupid" kind of way until the actions they had on the past started affecting the present. That's right....the fucking present. Everything they changed only kicked in and took effect from the exact second they got back to their own time.

Like, you do something 65 millions years BC that makes plantlife on earth far more dominant, and when you get back to your own time everything is the way it was and then BOOM, trees come smashing through walls and shit. How braindead is that?

i love reading films

Shit.

I have a growing obsession with Neil Gaiman, reading a series of short stories of his. The collection's called "Smoke and Mirrors" and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. After this I have Anansi Boys, and then it's off to the bookstore for more literary crack!

I got American Gods after seeing this thread...now reading it.

I liked American Gods, but I prefer Anansi Boys- its a hilarious book.

yeah, i really liked Anansi Boys. Spider was an awesome character, there was something badass about the way he talked.
i am fat charles nancy.

i really really have to swing by the store this weekend, i'll be done with Storm of Swords tomorrow or Saturday and then i'll have nothing to read.

talk about Neil Gaiman, what about Stardust? i didn't go see the movie because i wanted to read the book, but it's quite expensive for such a thin thing (it's like 10 euros or something at fnac, the store with the biggest english-language selection).

I'm a bit farther into Bluebeard now and I can say that I don't like it as much as the other stuff of Vonnegut's I've read. It's pleasant and he's still cynically criticizing society, but his criticism's seem more bitter than funny... and reek of an old man grumbling about how good things used to be (although I think that might be because thats what the main character is, but yeah)

As a worker in a bookstore, I can tell you that there are three current editions of Stardust: A $20 shitty cover version (ten euros), a really nice twenty dollars version, and a 10$ shitty cover paperback.

I haven't read it yet, but the movie is one of the best I've seen this year.

Oh, and now reading:

Marcus Tullius Cicero- De Natura Deorum

Recently finished up The Damnation Game by Clive Barker after putting it down for about a year. Before that I read Watchmen, which was all kinds of awesome and deserving of it's praise. Currently I'm finishing up the short stories that were after "I Am Legend" in the book/collection I am Legend by Richard Matheson. I felt ridiculously dirty buying that book because it had Will Smith plastered all over it, and had the words "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING WILL SMITH" not only on the front cover, but also on the spine of the book, which seemed excessive. I found it hilarious that while Big Will is heavily featured on the cover, the character of Robert Neville is described as being a white guy with blonde hair and blue eyes. After this, I have a ton of books waiting to be read, but I think it'll be At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft.

Watchmen is for me the best graphical novel I've ever read. Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, it's an amazing experience and I feel richer for having read it. Those two are geniuses at what they do. It's huge and epic. It's complex and multilayered with stories, both fantastical and realistic. Few books have affected me and changed me as deeply as this one. I remember I read a copy from a library loan and I went a bought it as soon as I had finished it.



I'm currently re-reading Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns which also has a spot in my top 5 graphical novels.

god damn it, fnac didn't have A Feast for Crows or American Gods in stock! i'll be damned if i'm ordering a book from them, the only time i ordered one they took FOUR MONTHS to deliver (obviously by then i had decided to buy it from amazon).

still, i checked out Small Gods while i was there, but i didn't buy it because i only read a few pages (to be more specific, up to the bit where the head of the Quesition is talking to the general and the other guy). also, half the time i wasn't quite sure what Pratchett was going on about - i've only read 2 Discworld books, is small gods readable anyway?

Small Gods (and just about all Discworld books) are standalone, even if they share the same characters or take place after each other. Don''t worry if you don't know what Pratchett is going on about, few do.

Finished Bluebeard, was actually really enjoying it by the ending.

Gonna start What is What by Dave Eggers... heard some interesting stuff... it's the biography of an African guy who travelled to America, except with enough stuff Eggers made up that he ended up calling it a fiction

started The Stranger by Albert Camus. there's probably a lot of philosphy behind the book (i'm guessing it wasn't the story that won it a Nobel Prize) so most of it will be over my head until i read up on the author and his philosophy.

i also started A Feast for Crows, which i somehow managed to find here in Lisbon (of the 4 books, only this one was bought here). i'm still on Damphair's bit but i'm sure it will rule.