Taelac
Officer
Be bold. It makes your enemies hesitate.
Posts: 357
|
Post by Taelac on Jan 29, 2015 15:13:46 GMT -8
Oh, that looks interesting, Leif. I'll have to poke the ILLs.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Feb 3, 2015 10:47:39 GMT -8
The Lotus Sci-Fi/Fantasy list for 2014 is up. Was wondering if anyone had read some of these? www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2015/02/2014-locus-recommended-reading-list/Under Sci-fi I read Tigerman (liked it, it was a good book, sci-fi is a bit of a stretch). Peripheral and Three Body Problem are on my list to pick up soon. Under Fantasy, I read and reviewed Goblin Emperor, and read but somehow did not review City of Stairs (which I really liked and meant to review, maybe if it's quiet later). Dark Defiles is on my list. While I've never heard of The Boy Who Drew Monsters, that's a title that really makes me want to read it.
|
|
|
Post by firebolt153 on Feb 4, 2015 11:46:34 GMT -8
I read two under the YA list, Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo and Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor. Both were conclusions of their respective trilogies, and while I think I gave both of them 5/5 stars, I liked Dreams better because of the mythologies involved. Ruin and Rising had them too, but the detail of Dreams was just better, in my opinion.
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Feb 8, 2015 14:02:54 GMT -8
The Windup Girl: Great, really solid book!
It's the future. Humanity's greed has caught up with us and the Expansion is over, giving way to a new era of devastating, rapidly-mutating diseases and genetic engineering. Scientists bioengineer everything from seed stock to windup 'New People,' but not fast enough to outrun ever-evolving blights and scourges. Thailand has managed to weather the storm, and, its slums sheltered from the rising ocean by precarious levees, does its best to stave off disease while keeping the calorie companies at bay.
That's the basic set-up, though Paolo Bacigalupi phrases it better than I do. The narrative follows a couple of main characters, including the titular windup girl, as they navigate the political twists and turns of a kingdom on the edge of disaster. The world is complex, with intricate, overlapping alliances and nets of betrayal and little time for sentimentality.
The first half of the book was slow (though interesting), with not much happening, but around the midpoint it became much more intense and fast-paced and I realized how well the first half had set things up and eased us into the atmosphere, so that we could follow the schemes, plots, and action of the second.
Though it may seem at odds with what I've said above, this book actually has very strong Buddhist themes woven into it. It's just that they are less about the 'be compassionate' side of Buddhism and more towards the melancholy 'everything is transient' side with a helping of 'life is suffering.' I felt that aspect was nicely incorporated into the narrative and shown rather than told, so that it was compelling but not moralizing. Even though it has a lot of political thriller stuff built into it, I think the Buddhist philosophy facet was really the big take-away for me, and will stick with me the most.
Great book, fantastic world-building, and a bittersweet conclusion. Thumbs up.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Feb 11, 2015 12:38:13 GMT -8
That sounds like a winner, AL. Checked out now, but maybe after I finish this book I'm reading to make me more interesting. More interesting you say? Why yes, I saw this list of books guaranteed to make me more interesting. I figure if it'll make me twice as interesting, each of the 50 books ought to make me 2% more interesting. I don't know how to account for the ones I've already read, like the Bryson one and The Iliad. I'll need all of your help in this. I've just this week finished my first book chosen off the list, so try and evaluate from this point how interesting I am compared to previously. White is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi, was the first book I picked. It was checked in at the library, and also seemed interesting. It's the story of Miranda Silver, a girl who had some problems, among them pica, the urge to eat non-food things, like chalk. To varying degrees, her immediate female ancestors also suffered from the problem. The story focuses on her teen years, after the death of her mother until after her first year at Cambridge. There are several narrators telling the story that chronicles her mental break, a stay in an institution, and a struggle for normalcy. And of course, it's also about how their family and others relate to the big creepy possibly evil house now being used as a bed and breakfast. This was a seriously creepy book. Nothing violent or gory, but there's definitely an aspect of the slow descent into madness. There's also distinctly some supernatural elements, particularly referencing some Caribbean folklore. One of the reviews on Amazon says, "White Is for Witching blends gothic horror, racial politics, and the older, bloodier sort of fairy tales into a deeply unsettling novel." I find that to be quite accurate. Many reviews (which I read after) seem to struggle with the narration. The book is told from, I think, 4 points of view. A 3rd person POV focusing on Miranda, her brother Eliot's POV, her girlfriend Ore's POV, and then also the House's POV. There is often no immediate note as to who is narrating and it does switch within a chapter, sometimes with little clue that the narrative switch is happening. It does force the reader to rely on textual clues rather than formatting to make the call. Despite being a short book (like 210 pages or something in this version) it wasn't an easy read. The prose was sort of lyrical. I want to say dense, but that's not right. It felt like it took a lot of paying attention to. That being said, I thought it was well written, even beautiful in parts. Also, I will say deeply creepy, particularly in the 2nd half. Would I recommend it? Yes, I think so, though with the caveats that it may take a bit more work than you think. Also, arrange so you're not reading the creepy bits in a dark house while your wife is out of town. Do I feel more interesting? Maybe? It's hard to say. Next up is The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor. 4% more interesting, here I come.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 4, 2015 14:15:27 GMT -8
Just finished Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon. The book is set circa AD 950 in the khaganate of Khazaria, now part of Russia. It's the story of two wanderers, swindlers, gentlemen of the road, who find themselves in the possession of the remaining scion of a deposed bek, a not quite king. As such situations do, things escalate quickly and they are swept up into an attempt at vengeance and rebellion.
I really enjoyed this book. The setting is interesting. Historically, it's set in a time and place where the kingdom was reportedly Jewish. It's an area that has a lot of contact with Christianity and Islam as well, and that plays a bit into the story. So part of my enjoyment comes from an interesting historical setting that I'd like to read more about. It's also a pretty funny book, with numerous risible scenes and amusing chapter titles, like "On Discord Arising from the Excessive Love of a Hat" or "On the Observance of the Fourth Commandment Among Horse Thieves". I find that style of title to be enjoyable and it makes me press on when reading to try and learn more about the Hat or the Elephant or the Horse Thieves. It's also short, about 200 pages, and that includes the occasional full page illustration. It's easily accessible and the fact that it plays to some fantasy and classic adventure story (think Burroughs)tropes makes it an easy choice in "Literature" for someone more used to reading Fantasy.
There's more than just some light fantasy/historical fiction, there's some deeper themes going on as well, particularly a search for home (familiar to anyone who followed up and read the previously reviewed Kavalier and Clay or Yiddish Policeman's Union). It makes what could be solely a light book into something more satisfying. Also, there are elephants in this book. Not like hundreds, but more than I expected.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 4, 2015 14:17:40 GMT -8
Also I stalled about halfway on the O'Connor stories. So not as interesting as I could be at this time. Some I really like, some I find to be a bit of a struggle. Also she be dropping N-words like nobody's business. But that's just the time and place.
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Mar 10, 2015 11:34:41 GMT -8
Don't worry Leif, the world probably couldn't handle it if you got *too* much more interesting. The Gentlemen of the Road sounds really nifty, and I love getting to read things set in less commonly written about historical times/places (foreshadowing for upcoming review of Years of Rice and Salt, once I finish it .) Also, because liberal arts education is great, I am currently taking an art history course about 'empires of steppe' of central Asia which it sounds like is exactly what Khazaria was! We're discussing Seljuks and Ghaznavids at the moment, though, so maybe we skipped them. It's a really neat topic regardless. God I am so lucky to get to study such things.
|
|
Taelac
Officer
Be bold. It makes your enemies hesitate.
Posts: 357
|
Post by Taelac on Mar 10, 2015 20:10:13 GMT -8
Recently finished A Local Habitation by Seanan Macguire, the second in the urban fantasy/mystery October Daye series. Faerie turf wars and Toby's attempts to carve out a place for herself to belong between the worlds of human and faerie continue apace. Toby's liege sends her to find out what happened to his niece, where she discovers that fae are being murdered, which is kind of a big deal for a race that is otherwise immortal. Clues and telegraphing were a mixed bag...I figured out half the plot before Toby did, but she beat me to the other half, so I didn't feel entirely cheated out of the ending. Toby gets to have some character development without losing any of hard-bitten attitude that draws me to her.
Would recommend.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 11, 2015 11:00:14 GMT -8
Ooh! I've read some about Years of Rice and Salt. Want to read that review.
Also really curious about Central Asia. I can't say it's anything I know anything about. I mean, I recognize the word Seljuks so that's something I guess.
That sounds like an interesting series, Tae. I haven't heard anything about it. I might have to check it out. Though the Library doesn't have it. They're still behind on not getting the new Ex Libris too. In general, I feel like urban fantasy is getting better.
|
|
Taelac
Officer
Be bold. It makes your enemies hesitate.
Posts: 357
|
Post by Taelac on Mar 12, 2015 18:12:52 GMT -8
I think I reviewed the first one in the series a while back. It's called Rosemary and Rue.
I agree about the recent improvements in urban fantasy. There's some good world-building going on out there.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 19, 2015 13:26:21 GMT -8
You know, on the sort of urban fantasy line, I'd like to recommend a favorite author who doesn't seem to be very well known at all, though he apparently wrote a Star Wars novel. It's Sean Stewart.
He had 3 books all set in the same world, Resurrection Man, Night Watch, and Galveston, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It's not a series. Technically it may be closer to fantasy or in some ways post apocalyptic, but they are set in places he's lived that are, in some ways, recognizable. At least Galveston is. I know where a lot of stuff in the book is, so that's good. All are set in a world where magic came flooding back into the word in the early 2000s. It was a sudden event that saw monsters crystallize from the collective fears of people. Some people were changed by the magic, others became able to interact with it, not so much as magicians but mediators. These books all happen after the fact. Resurrection Man is about a young man returning home and finding a sign he believes portends he death. He tries to learn about it, and with his remaining time tries to learn more about his family as well. Night Watch deals with a commerce deal between a technology driven Edmonton who has banished magic and Vancouver's Chinatown, which is ruled, after a fashion, by entities like The Dragon, Double-Monkey, and the mysterious Lady in her garden. In Galveston, the magic struck during Mardi Gras, leaving a section of the city magically walled off and stuck in a perpetual Fat Tuesday. The founding families of Galveston find themselves on top again, whereas anyone showing the taint of magic is banished to Mardi Gras.
The other two I feel worth mentioning are in a way closer to magical realism. Mockingbird is about a woman, Toni Beauchamp, in Houston who grew up with a mother who was occasionally possessed by spirits. In sort of a vodou way, where Erzulie or Baron Samedi might seize control for a short while before relinquishing the body back to it's owner. When she passed, Toni thought she was done with magic, but that wasn't quite the case. Perfect Circleis about Will Kennedy, who sees ghosts, those who have unfinished business. His life is on the skids when his cousin calls to find out about the ghost haunting his garage. He gets caught up in an epic family reunion, a runs into his ex and her new husband, and manages to convince his 12 year old daughter that he needs a caretaker. And recently his dead relatives seem to want something from him. Both of these just swim in Texan-ness, particularly Houston-ness. They have a distinct sense of place and time I find appealing. Also, I just really like the way they are done. While magic is integral to the novel and the main characters, it's not so much to the world. You just get glimpses poking through in places. They really hit that "our world, but with hidden bits" that I enjoy.
At any rate, both these sets of books came to mind last night and I thought I'd throw them up here quicklike.
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Mar 20, 2015 7:46:49 GMT -8
Last night I finished The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson. Minor spoilers ahead. The book is kind of a doozy, so I'm going to start by describing it and then transition into rambling incoherently about how I interpret its structure and meaning.
Years is an alternate history, set in a world that diverges from our own in the 13th century, when the Black Death wipes out all of Europe. The story explores the world history that follows, as seen from the ground up. In speculating, Robinson delves into Islamic history and politics, Chinese philosophies, New World societies, scientific revolutions, and more, covering over 800 years of imagined events.
He does so from the perspective (and this is the minor spoiler, since you don't find out until the end of the first chapter) of a jati of connected characters who reincarnate again and again, ignorant of their pasts but always destined to meet each other in new bodies, roles, and settings. This format was quite powerful for me, because it neatly solves the problem of having character development and providing a point of entry for the reader while covering nearly a millennium and jumping all over the world in the process. It also made for a little excitement at the beginning of each new life, because I'd find myself thinking, "ooh, I wonder if K will show up soon! Who will he be this time?"
I suspect Robinson wrote this book as mainly an excuse to discuss at length the whole concept of history and how we theorize/try to draw information it. As a result, if you read Years, you're in for a lot of philosophy: much of it interesting but also with no clear answers. This also leads to some pretty heavy leaning on the fourth wall, as on page 666, when a character finally realizes explicitly that "These historians who talk about counterfactuals to bolster their theories, they're ridiculous. Because no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing at all. Because we don't know if history is sensitive, if for want of a nail a civilization was lost, or if our mightiest acts are petals on a flood, or something in between."
I think that uncertainty is at the heart of the book, for in addition to their material struggles on earth, the characters are waging a spiritual struggle. Between each set of lives, our heroes meet in the bardo, a spiritual realm where they can remember their past lives for a short while. There they wonder: How can we escape the cycle of death and birth? Should we? Why does it occur in the first place?
As events stretch towards our present, the questions only multiply, and the whole human race seems to hang in the balance. We have followed these characters for over 700 pages and want to know what will happen. So, does Years stick the landing?
No, of course it doesn't stick the landing! We're talking about all of humanity's past and future, here-no book could stick the landing. Nothing is resolved, nothing is answered. The real world doesn't work that way. And now I'm going to start getting into that rambling I mentioned, because here's the thing: I think Years as a book is almost a meta version of the story it conveys, and in turn of world events. That sounds nonsensical-what I mean is, I think the act and journey of reading the book in and of itself conveys some of the same things the story inside it does. Years requires serious patience; sometimes you just want to get past certain parts and find out what happens and why. But you can't, and similarly, we humans must live through our whole lives, boring parts, even whole boring lives, with no idea whether there will be a reward in the end or we are struggling meaninglessly. Further, towards the end of the book, Robinson discusses a debate of history centering on the ideas of dharma, chaos, comedy, and tragedy; and when you look back on the book, you see these four modes all expressed in the storytelling, so that you have been skillfully guided into using the same frameworks to read the events of the book as the characters discuss for studying their own history. But these are all just modes of thinking, and we cannot say whether one is 'true' or 'right,' so how can we know whether we have read the book 'right'? As the book goes on, things and events begin to get less literal, less linear; you wonder whether what you assumed was real at the beginning truly is, whether the map of events that the book has laid out really matches the territory that we are supposed to intuit going on underneath; and these are questions we can ask about our real lives, and our real conceptions of them. We don't know the answers, so it's no wonder the book's ending doesn't provide them.
So when I say I enjoyed the book, I'm not going to say I enjoyed it 'despite' the lack of resolution, although that was my initial inclination-I think the structure and progression of this story, ending included, is a feature, not a bug. But neither will I say I enjoyed it 'because of' that, because I mostly enjoyed it in its own right, since I like to be plunged into unusual places and parts of history. It's cool to me to read about the life of a widow in Muslim China, a Japanese exile living among Native Americans, or Mongol warrior crossing the Mediterranean. I liked cheering for the characters when they made discoveries and laughing at them when they were reborn and became lost and clueless again, and I liked gazing down from above as humans built and destroyed civilizations like busy ants.
Uh, yeah. So tl;dr: alternate history with lots of awesome philosophy (Buddhist, Muslim, Confucian, Daoist, Native American schools, and more) and lots of detours along an 800 year journey. If that sounds up your alley, definitely pick Years up; if it doesn't, trust your instincts and stay away. It's a book that demands patience but for me it was satisfying and worthwhile.
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Mar 20, 2015 7:47:13 GMT -8
Shoot that was long. But hey, it was a long book.
|
|
|
Post by DementedDuck on Mar 20, 2015 13:05:24 GMT -8
I read Methods of Rationality! Tell me when you catch up, I'd like to know what you think. The author is from a rationality community called Less Wrong which has some pretty weird quirks, but also worthwhile aspects. I think that shows through in the story. It's ongoing but nearing the end. I forgot you'd said this, but I never ended up catching up properly anyway. I read it on and off and was caught up when the story was about five chapters from being finished. I read the new chapters as they came out. Overall I really enjoyed the story; I think the author started out being kinda pretentious about all of his methods of rationality but that died down as the story got better. My only regret was responding to his challenge on getting Harry out alive by checking the subreddit for theories because the subreddit nailed the solution pretty quickly and then reading the actual chapter was anticlimactic. But as I said, overall a good read!
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Mar 20, 2015 15:04:31 GMT -8
Yeah, I specifically didn't read the subreddit for that chapter and enjoyed coming up with theories on my own. I think the story has its problems, but it's also basically inventing a new genre, which I think is really cool, so thumbs up from me too.
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Mar 23, 2015 13:03:58 GMT -8
Conversation topic: worst book you ever had to read for school?
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 24, 2015 9:49:38 GMT -8
Arrowsmith bored me greatly. I keep meaning to go back and re-read to see if it's just that I was young.
In college I had to read a book for American History that some cursory googling has lead me to believe was A Midwife's Tale or something similar. Possibly Martha Ballad's actual diary entries. It was a freshman level course and I sort of think the person teaching was going through items for her thesis or something similar. The day to day routine of a woman in the late 1700s is surely something worth looking at. It's not really a major focus History 104, Pre-Civil War US History. It turns out that the day to day life was actually pretty tedious. From Wiki, "For many years historians did not give considerable attention to Martha Ballard's diary, generally dismissing it as repetitive and ordinary."
|
|
|
Post by firebolt153 on Mar 25, 2015 3:29:54 GMT -8
Probably a better question to ask would be what books DID I like in school--for me, it was Brave New World, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The rest I didn't care for, and I remember that I didn't even finish The Catcher in the Rye, which is unusual because I will 99% of the time push through to finish a book even if I don't like it.
|
|
|
Post by Aethera on Mar 25, 2015 11:20:38 GMT -8
I remember hating My Antonia and the Mill on the Floss especially. I liked To Kill a Mockingbird, most Shakespeare, and Jane Eyre, and my favorite was probably Pride & Prejudice, which I still enjoy. In college I took a couple of excellent English courses - the required freshman English class was themed on a variety of subjects. I chose crime and we read the David Simon Homicide book (which Homicide Life on the Street is based on), and William Gibson's Necromancer, and that was awesome. I also took a children's lit class just for fun. Nothing like reading the first Harry Potter, Ender's Game, Winnie the Pooh and Rushdie's Haroun and getting credit for it.
When I brought My Antonia home my father was disgusted - he said "I had to read that and I hated it, why is it still a thing?!" Then my sister wound up teaching English at our childhood high school a few years ago, and said the book list is EXACTLY THE SAME as when we went there 15-20 years ago. So much for moving with the times. She tried to introduce a few newer texts and there was a lot of resistance, because of course then they need to buy copies.
|
|
|
Post by DementedDuck on Mar 25, 2015 13:06:22 GMT -8
We read Tess of the d'Urbervilles - which I did kinda enjoy - but we also read a few of Thomas Hardy's short stories and oh my lord I've never been more bored in my life. The Withered Arm was among them; it's not a bad story, it's just Hardy. He's so boring. I also found some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to be tedious, although I can't remember which ones.
I enjoyed pretty much everything else we read, although it sounds like we read less than you guys did. Possibly because they don't make us take English past year 11, so I haven't had an English course since I was 16.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 25, 2015 15:24:48 GMT -8
Canterbury's Tales I find uneven. I got bored through the Knight's, but a lot of them are really pretty funny. I wanna see Miller, Reeve, and like Wife of Bath or something stick out as winners.
I was not a good reader of Wuthering Heights. I flat out gave up about 2/3 of the way through the book.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 25, 2015 18:30:07 GMT -8
The Windup Girl: Great, really solid book! Started this just the other day after finishing Broken Monsters. About 75 pages in and really enjoying it.
|
|
|
Post by DementedDuck on Mar 27, 2015 12:28:34 GMT -8
We didn't read it in school, but I tried reading The Da Vinci Code when it got big and just couldn't get into it. I'd already read Digital Fortress (awesome) and Angels and Demons (even more awesome) so I was pumped to try another Dan Brown story, but it didn't live up to my expectations. I never finished it because I couldn't motivate myself to continue picking it up and reading.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 27, 2015 13:04:03 GMT -8
I read Da Vinci Code at the beach some years ago. It didn't leave a generally good impression of Dan Brown. I did manage to solve one of the puzzles before Langdon though, which is pretty unfortunate for a guy who is supposed to be good at crazy religious puzzle solving.
|
|
Taelac
Officer
Be bold. It makes your enemies hesitate.
Posts: 357
|
Post by Taelac on Mar 27, 2015 19:52:01 GMT -8
The worst book I ever had to read for school was Absalom, Absalom. Not only was it excruciatingly awful stream-of-consciousness dreck, it was assigned in two different classes the same semester. (My bachelor's degree is in English Lit.) I maintain that Faulkner is only included in the canon on his old dead white guy credentials, not because he had any talent as a storyteller.
I also just had to add "dreck" to my browser dictionary.
|
|
Taelac
Officer
Be bold. It makes your enemies hesitate.
Posts: 357
|
Post by Taelac on Mar 27, 2015 20:06:13 GMT -8
I just finished Rosario + Vampire, v.1, at my 14yo son's recommendation. It was...very manga. This story about a human boy (Tsukune) accidentally enrolling in a school for monsters and becoming friends/love interests with a vampire girl (Moka) mostly revolves around Tsukune falling into some hapless trouble and Moka having to fish him out of it, while hiding his status as human from a student body that would like to eat him. Among his trials: a jealous boy starts a fight with him, a succubus tries to enslave him in order to steal him from Moka, and a mermaid tries to eat him.
Unusually for me, I have no idea whether I liked it or not, though I find myself mildly curious as to what happens next and wondering if my son plans to buy the next book.
|
|
|
Post by AhoyLindsay on Mar 29, 2015 9:40:27 GMT -8
I just finished Player One, which a friend gave me and which I thought Leif and Tae had talked about here, but looking back I think that was a different book.
Anyway, it was pretty good! A really quick read about a group of strangers who end up trapped in a hotel bar together, discussing philosophy and dealing with what may or may not be an apocalypse in progress. It's quirky but generally not in a overdone way, and well-paced, funny, and a bit sad.
|
|
|
Post by DementedDuck on Mar 30, 2015 4:57:09 GMT -8
I read Da Vinci Code at the beach some years ago. It didn't leave a generally good impression of Dan Brown. I did manage to solve one of the puzzles before Langdon though, which is pretty unfortunate for a guy who is supposed to be good at crazy religious puzzle solving. I would strongly recommend A&D and/or Digital Fortress to you (and everyone, really). I would also add that I read them years ago, so I was in my early to mid teens when I read them and thought they were excellent. So, y'know, pinch of salt and all that, but they were so much better than Da Vinci Code.
|
|
Leif
Senior Chatterbox
Posts: 600
|
Post by Leif on Mar 30, 2015 6:59:10 GMT -8
I did read A&D the next year at the beach. In general, with DVC and A&D, I like the sort of puzzle-y aspect. In A&D I enjoyed the ambigrams and some of the art commentary. The entire resolution I was less enamored of. It's probably worth some self reflection as to why. I think I'd be happy to read a book about the Illuminati (and in fact have reread The Illuminatus Trilogy several times), yet this just didn't click there. I was left at the end just sort of going, "Really?"
Ah well, different strokes, I suppose.
|
|