Ubik

While talking in class I realized I should have read babel 17.  Being in a lifestyle much like what you are referring to in Babel I think I would understand the story more than I did Ubik. Ubik is great because its based off beer. The story line is confusing. It seems like the majority of the story focused on this afterlife feeling. What we can do beyond the line of death and how the alive handle this. It shows how we as humans want to hold on too tight to what is gone and can never return, if even for another moment. This appeals to me because I myself am a pack-rat. I am certain if given the choice with death I would choose to hold on as long as possible.

Starship Troopers

So it has taken me a while to write up this semester's blog posts. I enjoyed all of the books but haven't had the time to write up these. Anyways, Starship Troopers, funny movie and even better as a book. I re watched the movie after reading this week's book and I have to think that the movie is a satire now.  The book was serious, less equal in sexes, and more of a story about one persons effect on his environment than the movie. 

The book was well written but tended to focus on more smaller details than necessary. I really want to hear more about these alien creatures, his relationships with females, and how he moves forward from his seemingly meaningless life.
My favorite part was when they got the crazy attack from these spider creatures and ended up going underground and being separated.  It was really a test to see if he had what no one else had. And to start the book with his normalcy to change into this unacknowledged hero was something I really enjoyed.

suggestions

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
I am just about to start A Wise Man's Fear durning spring break.
I also believe some readings out of Shadowrun 20th ed would be awesome.
I think a tournament of Magic:The Gathering would rock too.
Also, field trip to B&N and Books A Million.
You should try adding more "Warning Sexual Content" 
Thanks a bunch!
Jessi

BioChromatic Hotties!

Dear Sanderson,
You rock my world.

I want to someday game with you. Pick your brain. Be Siri's servant, really whatever you need.
Thanks,
Jessi

PS: Warbreaker needs more sex.



Moving on, Warbreaker just speaks to me in every way possible. It plays on the game of life. There are levels, there ways to spend "breath", and the plot is huge! I have to say more sex would be the only thing you ask for.
The play on religious beliefs and relationships within that was a wonderful take on the matter. Between the God King and Siri's believes of Austre you have to wonder if the apple really feel far from the tree. Eberron makes an amazing king with such a sad story, why not idealize him.

Some of the things I love was the description of BioChromatic whenever the  God King was around and the lifeless squirrel. I mean SQUIRRELS!...really? Just the way he has mega-plot twists and turns and loops you just don't know if dinosaurs are going to be lurking around the corner. More than anything else I love Eberron and Siri. They were made for each other. They had to be together. He is so innocent as to not understand sex, but in love and beautiful enough to write such words about her. I wish the sex scene was included and that an entire book was made of their nightly picnics.

Overall this is the story of Daisy and Peach trying to figure out if they should fight for themselves or have Mario and Luigi save them.
I love how Siri talks to Eberron. I love how

Why the spiders, Neil?

I am in love with Neil Gamien. I want to be in Stormhold with Neil. I want to read all of his books. Anansi Boys is more adult then the rest of his novels I've read though and was not as thrilled as normal. I enjoy the sickness of his children's novels. He is witty, funny, intelligent no matter the age he is writing for. Anansi Boys is defiantly not my favorite novel of his, it is a story about a lame main character and amazing side characters. I was more interested in Spider, Daisy, and everyone around them. I love modern takes on myth, I love his semi-steam punk feel.
*pause*
I want him.
*un-pause*
I will write more soon but at the moment I'm to busy being in love.
I defiantly love Stardust (the book) much more than his attempts at adult novels. He just know who to get a young girls heart racing, in more than one way. Anansi Boys play with my love for small adventures done in big ways, by having no huge plot. Instead he plays with a small quest and goal. I feel like Fat Charlie was a mistake of a main character and can't get past the lack of death and destruction in the novel.
Anywho, I shall move back to Stardust now. For a fantasy Gamien makes is so believable, like all his books. He makes sense without truth. He shows the little things that make a big story and while doing so has an amazing accent. <3

Bibidi bobidi boo

I am currently reading The Magician and will write more, but right now, I am reading chapter 5 and do not wish to stop. Ever.
And now I am done. Wow, I loved this story. I was never much into Harry Potter (after book 3) and really the closest I get to magic is Name of the Wind. Honestly though this book was clever, rich, and funny. The dynamic to the magicians vs. the normal people and the people who aren't so normal is intelligent and witty. I admit that it took so getting used to his slow writing style, but I much preferred it over Anansi Boys and other books that just fly by.
Although he covers the span of 5-years in the book I felt like only minutes went by. He is a human, a magician, a goose, a sex-craved fox all in the same breathe. Maybe I was just holding my breathe until he and Alice got together, but it was worth it. I could feel this debauchery and strive and really, Quincy just reminded me of myself. The story was not heavy plot but it had enough to keep you going.
I am very excited to see where the series goes, and I will buying the next book once its on the selves.
It must be said here and now though, my favorite kind of magic is with cards.
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On the tale that is longer than my cat's (teehee)

Oh how I love a good pun, almost as much as I love curling up during summer with Tolkien, Rufus, or Lewis. There is something about over described landscape and heroic characters that take you away to a better place. You transport to another land, where nothing in reality is true, and everything in a book is real. The classic fantasy is possibly my favorite genre. I can read and re-read any given fantasy for the millionth time and still gasp and cry. I can still feel the emotions of the first time I read Narnia. The fear and joy of Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan and their epic adventure.
It is said that Tolkien and Lewis were friends in their time writing. Maybe that is why their books are so similar. Tolkien taking the less religious view. Still, I am glad of their friendship for the stories they tell create hope for me. Fantasy allows for a person to see the good in people. To see that good will defeat evil and that we will be rewarded for it. At the same time it takes us to a magnificent place that is were will a long to be. So thank you Tolkien, Lewis, and others. You give me reason.
That in motion, I have to rant. I am in a Shadowrun game right now, (tabletop) that has a bunch of poser elves that wear synthetic leather and speak not in Sperethiel, but TOLKIN ELVISH! Sperethiel is the native Elvish language in the game. Really? I am going against wannabes. Don't ever learn a language that doesn't exist, and then do it poorly. Telegit thelemsa.