Hardboiled

My brain’s been sporadic lately. I’m jumping from one subject to another faster than I realize, and I must admit, it has to be driving someone insane.

So sporadic, I’ve already lost my train of thought on this post. Whoops.

a friend and I have a comic idea nailed down, and we’re working out the details, trying to come up with scenarios, narrow down details between character and world, and other things as well.

It’s all coming together nicely. Especially once I get down to Florida for Megacon. I really need this break, even though I’m not doing anything at home right now other than reading too much/playing too many video games. It will be nice, even if it’s just a week.

I have realized by now that not having a job has made me further my lazy tendencies.  I have 40+ books waiting to be read, and I have yet to touch any of them. The book I have been wanting to read for days now, ‘Sorcery Rising’ sits on my night stand, openly mocking me for how I haven’t been paying attention to it. It just sits there, waiting for me to rustle those pages and fill my head with the world hidden inside. I have gotten started, through the prologue and most of the way through the first chapter. Something seems to be lacking in this book, however. I can’t seem to stay focused on it when I try to read it. I get far too distracted when I try to put my mind to it, and in essence, I utterly fail at concentration. Perhaps I shouldn’t be trying to force my way through this book. I shall go through another book before I find myself doing the same thing again. The Myst books were good, I liked where I got in them, and am also lightly versed in the lore of Myst already. Going back to them would be nice, eventually. I need something solid. I have not the Elder Scrolls novel, ‘The Infernal City’, something that I’ve been really wanting to read.

That really brings me to why I haven’t been reading that much lately. I blame The Elder Scroll IV:  Oblivion. I’ve been far too engrossed in this game. Its world is beautiful beyond belief, and the lore behind it is so massive. I can’t seem to get enough of it.

Time to read.

Let’s make a list.

So I seemed to have gathered more books than I can read. It’s time to make a list on what I have and have not read.

Unread:

• Children of Amarid – David B. Coe
• The Outlanders – David B. Coe
• Rules of Ascension – David B. Coe
• Myst: Book of Atrius
• Myst: Book of D’ni
• Myst: Book of Ti’ana
• Fool’s Errand – Robin Hobb
• Sorcery Rising – Jude Fisher
• Wild Magic – Jude Fisher
• Fire Logic – Laurie J. Marks
• The Color of Magic – Terry Pratchett
• The Red Tape War – Jack L. Chalker, Mike Resnick, George Effinger
• The Dark Tide – Dennis L. McKiernan
• Lord Valentine’s Castle – Robert Silverberg
• In Conquest Born – C.S. Friedman
• Black Sun Rising – C.S. Friedman
• The Crystal Shard – R.A. Salvatore
• Streams of Silver – R.A. Salvatore
• The Summoner – Gail Z. Martin
• The Blood King – Gail Z. Martin
• The Master of White Storm – Janny Wurts
• Quest for Faradawn – Richard Ford
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Alcatraz versus the Scrivener’s Bones – Brandon Sanderson
• The Runelords – David Farland
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• The Poetics of Aristotle
• Troilus and Criseydse – Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Scholars – Wu Ching-Tzu

Now, while I do have these books that remain unread, there are a few books that I am currently in the middle of reading, some of them, this will be a multiple read through of it.

Currently Reading:

• Sage Ninomiya’s Evening Talks
• The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan

It isn’t too many, as I try not to overload myself with too many books at once. Sage Ninomiya’s book isn’t a novel, but more of a philosophy book that is actually practical to everyday life, so that’s more of a flip through, reading what I need when I want. That just leaves The Dragon Reborn.  At my current book consumption, I should be moving on quickly to the next book.

School has been bitch. I’ve been a mental wreck these last few weeks, what with finals coming up and all. right now, I’m in the middle of studying for a math test I have in the morning, and it’s really bugging me, since I’m having a really tough time getting it.

Short post, but it is late, and I’m very tired.

Tough times on the webs.

Computer is up, and it’s down. For now I have a running PC, but who knows for how long. Now it’s been about two months since my last post, but according to my stats, no one reads anyways, so I’ll leave this post short today. I plan soon to get back to a regular schedule, but with school just now starting back, it’s hard to do so. We’ll see how things fly.

It’s June! ..late June.

Ok, so I’ve well over broken my promise that I’d do semi-regular updates. I guess my social life has gotten the better of me. Lies. I spent the last week down in Florida, with a friend and his fiancee. I managed to finish the final book in the Night Angel Trilogy. I really did like the books. The writing, while at times seemed mediocre, but the characters were great.

Kinda. I ended up liking the minor characters over some of the major characters in the book, since they ended up more often than not doing less than everyone else in the book and ended up being in the right place at the right time more than once.  All in all it was a decent book to read to kill the time I needed for War Breaker by Brandon Sanderson to come out, which I’m already loving, by the way.

Well, short entry, as I’m busy with other affairs, but until next time!

Night Angel Trilogy

I’ve been looking for a new book to jump into since I finished BRandon Sanderson’s MISTBOEN trilogy, and I’ve read some through a few different books, like Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallenseries. I had a harder time getting into that than I thought I was going to. It doesn’t seem to flow to smoothly as I had hoped. I plan to continue the series, but at this point, it’s a push. It’s not what I’m really looking for in a book at the moment. I’m continuing a re-read through the Wheel of Time books, but it’s all review at this point, getting ready for the first of the final three books this November, A Gathering Storm. I did however, while rummaging through Amazon’s “similar people purchased” section under the Mistborn books, come across a book series that I was a little hesitant to try, mainly because it was a little more realistic as far as fantasy novels go. The Night Angel Trilogy is what it was. It’s an Assassin fantasy novel publiushed by OrbitFantasy, who I haven’t heard of up until this point. People seemed to like it, and reviews were all on the positive side, so I figured that I would give it a try. The book series is actually pretty good. It’s isn’t the most amazing thing I’ve ever read, but I have had trouble putting it down. I don’t find myself too attached to any of the characters yet, but the flow of the book is really good, and I want to keep reading to find out what happens next. I’m only about a third of the way through the first book, only because I bought it yesterday, but I should soon finish it here. I’m just surprised at how good it actually is. Really didn’t expect it.

Until Next Time!

I love my DS too much.

Finally diagnosed what was wrong with my computer. All of hte capacitors blew out on my video card.  That means I now get to buy a new video card. Huzzah.

Lately, I’ve been feeling really bored with the video games I normally play. That made me decide to go trade in a bunch of duplicates of games that I already have, just so I could get something new without spending any of my actual money. So after I traded everything in, I managed to get Dragon Quest Swords for the Wii,another copy of Mega Man X6 for the PS1, Metal Slug 7, Avalon Code, and Dokapon Journey for the DS. Metal Slug is always a lot of fun. Avalon Code is an interesting hack n slash game with new elements of rewriting your enemies’ stats using different variations of a block building system. Maybe I’ll go into it another time, but for now, not so much. Dokapon Journey is mad fun, outside of the maddening computer players who will own you if you aren’t careful. I put way too much time into that game today alone, and Metal Slug 7 has been eating up a lot of my time even though I’ve been really wanting to play Avalon Code more. Metal Slug is just that excellent of a game, if you haven’t played it or any Metal Slug game, I suggest you go out and find the Anthology collection which has Metal Slug 1-6 plus Metal Slug X, a real deal.

Otherwise, that’s all I have for now. Until next time!

I wish I could hate this computer to death.

Still having massive problems with this computer, but I’ve gotten it back up well enough towrite a post.

OHMYGOD.

The ending to the Mistborn series was simply amazing. I truly did not see it coming. Everything flowed together so perfectly, and just wow, I did not see the ending like that happen.  This is easily the best book series I’ve read in years, and I must give my props to Brandon Sanderson for writing such an amazing book trilogy. I eagerly await his next book ‘Warbreaker’ next month. the entire book is available for download on his website, and I’ve kept myself to only reading the prolouge to the book. It was so exciting. I truly can’t wait for it. For now though, I’m reading through the first Alcatraz book, which was a pain to find in bookstores, but as Alcatraz says in the foreword/prolouge, “Be lucky you found this, for Librarians are trying to keep it a secret.” And how!

That’s it for now. Mistborn=AMAZING, Alcatraz is nice and quirky, and Until next time!

Hey kid, I’m a computer.

Computer is down, bear with the lack of updates. Will hopefully be back up in due time.