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blnchflr for insisting we take that magicarp raid when we spent a sunday in sunny Malmö a couple of weeks ago. Anyway - I got my first Mewtwo! And two shiny Magicarps. And a nice walk around town.
What I've recently finished reading
Oldtidssagaerne vol. 4.
Greg Rucka & Ed Brubaker: Gotham Central: Corrigan
I really like Greg Rucka's Renee Montoya.
Connie Willis: Doomsday Book
This was my first taste of Connie Willis' time travel universe, and I quite - well. Enjoyed is probably the wrong word, with a time travelling historian accidentally getting stuck during the Black Death while everybody around her dies, while back in the future she's from Oxford is struck by a nasty 'flu epidemic. Mind you, I found the pace sometimes frustrating, and frankly, the book started with an embarrassing amount of hand-wringing over the whole "lone woman going time travelling". That bit hasn't really aged well.
Don Rosa: Hall of Fame: bog 10.
No more Don Rosa ducks :-(
Jacques Lob: Snowpiercer: The Escape
Mark Waid: Champions: Change the World
Richard Morgan: Broken Angels
I'm sad to say I was underwhelmed. For a while there I thought the author might be doing something interesting with examining how the sleeve technology affects different settings, and that was why he'd switched from the previous novel's cyberpunk noir setting into a fairly straight-forward military sci-fi story, but it never quite gets there. And I never really get invested in any of the new characters and consequently don't get Takeshi's choices. Oh well...
Ralph Meyer: Clear Blue Tomorrows
I can't help but feel that the framing story of this comic - a man travels back in time to assist the supreme dictator of the future in becoming successful in his first career of science fiction writer, thus avoiding that pesky dictatorship altogether, and does this by ghost writing stories for him, drawing inspiration from, well, the actual future - is undermined by how none of the stories we are then told feel particularly dystopic. They are mostly slice-of-life sf set in a pretty cyberpunkish universe, and they are perfectly fine and sometimes amusing, but - the framing story feels entirely out of place with them.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 22.
G.D. Falksen: A Sojourn in Bohemia
Not quite as good as the previous books in the series. The addition of the Black Goat cult seems to have potential, but probably more in the next book. Really, at this point I'm just looking forward to whenever Friedrich is going to find out that his mom and step-dad are vampires.
Mary M. Talbot: The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
What I've recently watched
26. Lucifer season 3.
Including the two extra episodes. I really, really hope they find someone to pick it up, but at this point, I'm not optimistic.
27. Blade Runner 2049
28. Lykke Per
Of which I can tell you - nothing. Shhh. Secret.
29. Sense8 finale
I liked it. I'll miss this show. That said - it was a fairly decent action movie with a lot of tying up lose ends at the end (I bet Straczynski and the Wachowski sisters were under orders not to leave any glaring cliffhangers this time), but - it felt too fast and too simple. Kala's love triangle getting resolved with a neat threesome, that's fine, but should have happened over a season or two. Capheus barely had anything to do, Felix doesn't appear until after Wolfgang is saved from the bad guys. It just - it's nice and definitely one of the better show finales I've seen, but it also clearly felt like somebody was pushing in bits that should have been used in later seasons.
30. American Horror Story: Hotel
I usually like vampires, but this felt - bland. And maybe this is sacrilege, but Lady Gaga was underwhelming.
What I'm reading now
Plato's Laws in the most recent Danish translation (that guy really liked his censorship, huh).
Total number of books and comics read this year: 121
blnchflr for insisting we take that magicarp raid when we spent a sunday in sunny Malmö a couple of weeks ago. Anyway - I got my first Mewtwo! And two shiny Magicarps. And a nice walk around town.What I've recently finished reading
Oldtidssagaerne vol. 4.
Greg Rucka & Ed Brubaker: Gotham Central: Corrigan
I really like Greg Rucka's Renee Montoya.
Connie Willis: Doomsday Book
This was my first taste of Connie Willis' time travel universe, and I quite - well. Enjoyed is probably the wrong word, with a time travelling historian accidentally getting stuck during the Black Death while everybody around her dies, while back in the future she's from Oxford is struck by a nasty 'flu epidemic. Mind you, I found the pace sometimes frustrating, and frankly, the book started with an embarrassing amount of hand-wringing over the whole "lone woman going time travelling". That bit hasn't really aged well.
Don Rosa: Hall of Fame: bog 10.
No more Don Rosa ducks :-(
Jacques Lob: Snowpiercer: The Escape
Mark Waid: Champions: Change the World
Richard Morgan: Broken Angels
I'm sad to say I was underwhelmed. For a while there I thought the author might be doing something interesting with examining how the sleeve technology affects different settings, and that was why he'd switched from the previous novel's cyberpunk noir setting into a fairly straight-forward military sci-fi story, but it never quite gets there. And I never really get invested in any of the new characters and consequently don't get Takeshi's choices. Oh well...
Ralph Meyer: Clear Blue Tomorrows
I can't help but feel that the framing story of this comic - a man travels back in time to assist the supreme dictator of the future in becoming successful in his first career of science fiction writer, thus avoiding that pesky dictatorship altogether, and does this by ghost writing stories for him, drawing inspiration from, well, the actual future - is undermined by how none of the stories we are then told feel particularly dystopic. They are mostly slice-of-life sf set in a pretty cyberpunkish universe, and they are perfectly fine and sometimes amusing, but - the framing story feels entirely out of place with them.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 22.
G.D. Falksen: A Sojourn in Bohemia
Not quite as good as the previous books in the series. The addition of the Black Goat cult seems to have potential, but probably more in the next book. Really, at this point I'm just looking forward to whenever Friedrich is going to find out that his mom and step-dad are vampires.
Mary M. Talbot: The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
What I've recently watched
26. Lucifer season 3.
Including the two extra episodes. I really, really hope they find someone to pick it up, but at this point, I'm not optimistic.
27. Blade Runner 2049
28. Lykke Per
Of which I can tell you - nothing. Shhh. Secret.
29. Sense8 finale
I liked it. I'll miss this show. That said - it was a fairly decent action movie with a lot of tying up lose ends at the end (I bet Straczynski and the Wachowski sisters were under orders not to leave any glaring cliffhangers this time), but - it felt too fast and too simple. Kala's love triangle getting resolved with a neat threesome, that's fine, but should have happened over a season or two. Capheus barely had anything to do, Felix doesn't appear until after Wolfgang is saved from the bad guys. It just - it's nice and definitely one of the better show finales I've seen, but it also clearly felt like somebody was pushing in bits that should have been used in later seasons.
30. American Horror Story: Hotel
I usually like vampires, but this felt - bland. And maybe this is sacrilege, but Lady Gaga was underwhelming.
What I'm reading now
Plato's Laws in the most recent Danish translation (that guy really liked his censorship, huh).
Total number of books and comics read this year: 121