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Books
Dan Abnett: Xenos
Dan Abnett: Malleus
Dan Abnett: Hereticus
Jesper Gaarskjær: Bornholm besat: det glemte hjørne af Danmark under Anden Verdenskrig
Helle Juhl: Husmødre: historier fra landets største arbejdsplads
Amanda Lind: Francys evangelium
Dear author - changing POVs within a story is fine - doing it every other line is fucking annoying. Sincerely, me. (The story's fine, Swedish gangster queen trying to cope with work-life balance while fighting a gangland war, but the POV thing kept bugging me. It feels amateurish.).
Mads Peder Nordbo: Odins labyrint - et glasbarns fortællinger
So, this is part Da Vinci Code style thriller about Norse myth (so instead of "Jesus had babies!" we get "Odin was Jesus! (and had babies!)", part gothic novel - and honestly, I think it would have worked better as a movie. At least in a movie, I could have forgiven the lack of actually telling about the research along the way - particularly from a first person POV it's grating to spend a book reading about the main character reading a little in this and thinking a bit and finally present a finished thesis. I'd have liked to get the steps along the way, you know. Also, while the gothic part worked surprisingly well, the Da Vinci code part annoyed me the way those sorts of stories usually do - especially when the protagonist and his mentor agree that their knowledge should probably be kept secret to protect the poor Christians? Dammit, why? I mean, it's not like can't pick apart Christianity and point out the bits they stole from every damn brand of polytheism and mystery cult around the Mediterranean and Middle East, so who cares? That's the main problem with these DVC style thrillers - the assumption that their precious secret would really be so very world-shaking (which is probably why my favourite of the genre remains Svend Åge Madsen's Mange Sære Ting For, because it has the shocking television recordings of the true life of Jesus (there's a technobabble justification, just roll with it) shown in television and ultimately - ultimately, it doesn't change that much. I really ought to read some more of Svend Åge Madsen's books...)
J.D. Robb: Glory In Death
Better than the first. I suspect one Dallas and Roarke's relationship settle in properly, it will get a lot less creepy - or at least I hope so.
Kaare R. Skou: Politik der forandrede Danmark
Now don't get me wrong, this is an interesting book - but for a book about important Danish laws during our time as a democracy, I found it too focused on laws dealing with with the development of the Danish flexicurity and welfare systems and international agreements - while laws dealing with culture and developing social norms were far scarcer. Surely they could have left out one of the steps along the way to EU membership and put in, say, the registered partnership law of 1989? Or something (my librarian heart missed the library law too, but that's probably just bias...)
Comics
Dan Abnett: Resurrection Man
Of all things, this reminded me of how I used to enjoy reading Hit Man - and apparently the Danish libraries hasn't bothered to buy the last few collections. Typical :-(
Roberto Aguirre-Sacara: Thor: The Trials of Loki
It's a nice enough retelling of the nastier stories around Loki from Norse myth - but I don't think it does a particularly good job making it fit with the Marvel canon. Then again, I generally don't think Marvel canon and Norse myth blends that well...
Brian Michael Bendis: New Avengers: Siege
Warren Ellis: The Invincible Iron Man: Extremis
I thought it would be an idea to read this before the movie comes out, and I enjoyed it well enough. Still, it didn't feel as if the Extremis was particularly explored in this - it's capacities, I mean - it all felt rather vague - is it supposed to just make Tony interface better with the suit or does it make him a fullblown technomancer to rival Mitchell Hundred (to jump to a completely different comic book verse) or what? Question for those more familiar with Iron Man than me: Is there any canon stories actually exploring the Extremis properly?
Kazu Kibuishi: Amulet: Prince of the elves
Ralf König: Prototype
Okay. So, a comic about Adam's life in the Garden of Eden pre-Eve. And if comics had fanfic style warnings this one's would include: dub-con, dom/sub, God/Adam - oh, and bestiality (because apparently giraffes used to have considerably shorter necks...). And an atheistic sort of worldview, really - and the God and the Snake being one. Then again, it is Ralf König we're talking about.
Hiroaki Samura: Blade of the Immortal: On silent wings
Hiroaki Samura: Blade of the Immortal: On silent wings II
Siege Prelude
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore: Kindred of paradise
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore: The souls of the fallen
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore: The defiant ones
Ai Yazawa: Nana 14.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 22
Currently reading: Til deres dages ende, Dandy by Jan Guillou and Fairy Tail vol. 16. by Hiro Mashima.
Dan Abnett: Xenos
Dan Abnett: Malleus
Dan Abnett: Hereticus
Jesper Gaarskjær: Bornholm besat: det glemte hjørne af Danmark under Anden Verdenskrig
Helle Juhl: Husmødre: historier fra landets største arbejdsplads
Amanda Lind: Francys evangelium
Dear author - changing POVs within a story is fine - doing it every other line is fucking annoying. Sincerely, me. (The story's fine, Swedish gangster queen trying to cope with work-life balance while fighting a gangland war, but the POV thing kept bugging me. It feels amateurish.).
Mads Peder Nordbo: Odins labyrint - et glasbarns fortællinger
So, this is part Da Vinci Code style thriller about Norse myth (so instead of "Jesus had babies!" we get "Odin was Jesus! (and had babies!)", part gothic novel - and honestly, I think it would have worked better as a movie. At least in a movie, I could have forgiven the lack of actually telling about the research along the way - particularly from a first person POV it's grating to spend a book reading about the main character reading a little in this and thinking a bit and finally present a finished thesis. I'd have liked to get the steps along the way, you know. Also, while the gothic part worked surprisingly well, the Da Vinci code part annoyed me the way those sorts of stories usually do - especially when the protagonist and his mentor agree that their knowledge should probably be kept secret to protect the poor Christians? Dammit, why? I mean, it's not like can't pick apart Christianity and point out the bits they stole from every damn brand of polytheism and mystery cult around the Mediterranean and Middle East, so who cares? That's the main problem with these DVC style thrillers - the assumption that their precious secret would really be so very world-shaking (which is probably why my favourite of the genre remains Svend Åge Madsen's Mange Sære Ting For, because it has the shocking television recordings of the true life of Jesus (there's a technobabble justification, just roll with it) shown in television and ultimately - ultimately, it doesn't change that much. I really ought to read some more of Svend Åge Madsen's books...)
J.D. Robb: Glory In Death
Better than the first. I suspect one Dallas and Roarke's relationship settle in properly, it will get a lot less creepy - or at least I hope so.
Kaare R. Skou: Politik der forandrede Danmark
Now don't get me wrong, this is an interesting book - but for a book about important Danish laws during our time as a democracy, I found it too focused on laws dealing with with the development of the Danish flexicurity and welfare systems and international agreements - while laws dealing with culture and developing social norms were far scarcer. Surely they could have left out one of the steps along the way to EU membership and put in, say, the registered partnership law of 1989? Or something (my librarian heart missed the library law too, but that's probably just bias...)
Comics
Dan Abnett: Resurrection Man
Of all things, this reminded me of how I used to enjoy reading Hit Man - and apparently the Danish libraries hasn't bothered to buy the last few collections. Typical :-(
Roberto Aguirre-Sacara: Thor: The Trials of Loki
It's a nice enough retelling of the nastier stories around Loki from Norse myth - but I don't think it does a particularly good job making it fit with the Marvel canon. Then again, I generally don't think Marvel canon and Norse myth blends that well...
Brian Michael Bendis: New Avengers: Siege
Warren Ellis: The Invincible Iron Man: Extremis
I thought it would be an idea to read this before the movie comes out, and I enjoyed it well enough. Still, it didn't feel as if the Extremis was particularly explored in this - it's capacities, I mean - it all felt rather vague - is it supposed to just make Tony interface better with the suit or does it make him a fullblown technomancer to rival Mitchell Hundred (to jump to a completely different comic book verse) or what? Question for those more familiar with Iron Man than me: Is there any canon stories actually exploring the Extremis properly?
Kazu Kibuishi: Amulet: Prince of the elves
Ralf König: Prototype
Okay. So, a comic about Adam's life in the Garden of Eden pre-Eve. And if comics had fanfic style warnings this one's would include: dub-con, dom/sub, God/Adam - oh, and bestiality (because apparently giraffes used to have considerably shorter necks...). And an atheistic sort of worldview, really - and the God and the Snake being one. Then again, it is Ralf König we're talking about.
Hiroaki Samura: Blade of the Immortal: On silent wings
Hiroaki Samura: Blade of the Immortal: On silent wings II
Siege Prelude
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore: Kindred of paradise
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore: The souls of the fallen
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore: The defiant ones
Ai Yazawa: Nana 14.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 22
Currently reading: Til deres dages ende, Dandy by Jan Guillou and Fairy Tail vol. 16. by Hiro Mashima.
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