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annundrielI was really working the lazy-college-student-on-break thing and actually reading for fun today, curled up on Mom's bed with the heater on and Amazing Stories playing in the background. Which would have been a fine, nice way to spend the afternoon. But then I discovered that the book I was reading was faulty. I finished a chapter of Elizabeth Peter's The Snake, the Crocodile, & the Dog and was flipping ahead to see how far away the next chapter break was when I noticed that after page 180 it jumped down to page 149. I thought maybe it was just a screw up with the page numbers. But no, it actually skips back to 149 and then continues to page 180 again. At which point it skips to 213. I'm missing 33 pages. In the middle of a mystery novel. ::grumbles:: Not a happy panda.
I guess this is a sign that I really shouldn't read mysteries set in Egypt when it's thirteen degrees outside. But, damn it, I was craving it! (I blame The Mummy movies.)
So now I've started Neil Gaiman's 1602. Even though I'm not really familiar with the Marvel universe, I still get very geeky-excited every time I recognize and realize who one of the character's is supposed to be. (Like Peter Parquagh and Carlos Javier - these are actually the two that I find really hilarious for some reason. Just...Carlos Javier. Hee.) It should be an interesting, fairly quick read.
Speaking of Marvel, I watched the trailer for X3 and, yes, I am excited. Again, even though I never read the comics or really watched the cartoons. I have seen the movies though, and really liked them. Also, I pretty much dig the whole X-Men idea, it's kind of intriguing. And when the movies have Patrick Stewart AND Ian McKellan I just can't refuse.
Anyhoo. I'm also going to start Michael Crichton's newest, State of Fear. Dad just read it and really liked it. I'm...Well, I'm not sure how I feel about starting it. I was going to but it when it first came out and then I found out that it was about global warming and that stayed my hand. Because, well, who wants to read a book about global warming? But it *is* Michael Crichton and he's always interesting and I've never not liked something of his. And, really, it'll be about more than global warming.
I did really love his book before this, Prey, which proved, much like both Jurassic Park books, that just because we *can* do something doesn't mean we *should*. (Sort of like those scientists that created technology or something that replicated itself. I know I'm tainted by science fiction, but is that entirely a good idea? [lj entry]) I don't know if it was because of the content, the writing, or the fact that I read a lot of this book in the middle of the night (during summer when there's a lot going on around here), but it really freaked me the hell out. I didn't know what was going on, who was good or bad, what was good or bad. The book just sucked me in and even when I got to the parts where the nanotechnology got really freaky, I couldn't stop reading.
Actually, now that I'm out of reading the mystery novel because of it's default ::kicks it::, I'm actually more interested in spending the day curled up with a book. Funny how that works.
I guess this is a sign that I really shouldn't read mysteries set in Egypt when it's thirteen degrees outside. But, damn it, I was craving it! (I blame The Mummy movies.)
So now I've started Neil Gaiman's 1602. Even though I'm not really familiar with the Marvel universe, I still get very geeky-excited every time I recognize and realize who one of the character's is supposed to be. (Like Peter Parquagh and Carlos Javier - these are actually the two that I find really hilarious for some reason. Just...Carlos Javier. Hee.) It should be an interesting, fairly quick read.
Speaking of Marvel, I watched the trailer for X3 and, yes, I am excited. Again, even though I never read the comics or really watched the cartoons. I have seen the movies though, and really liked them. Also, I pretty much dig the whole X-Men idea, it's kind of intriguing. And when the movies have Patrick Stewart AND Ian McKellan I just can't refuse.
Anyhoo. I'm also going to start Michael Crichton's newest, State of Fear. Dad just read it and really liked it. I'm...Well, I'm not sure how I feel about starting it. I was going to but it when it first came out and then I found out that it was about global warming and that stayed my hand. Because, well, who wants to read a book about global warming? But it *is* Michael Crichton and he's always interesting and I've never not liked something of his. And, really, it'll be about more than global warming.
I did really love his book before this, Prey, which proved, much like both Jurassic Park books, that just because we *can* do something doesn't mean we *should*. (Sort of like those scientists that created technology or something that replicated itself. I know I'm tainted by science fiction, but is that entirely a good idea? [lj entry]) I don't know if it was because of the content, the writing, or the fact that I read a lot of this book in the middle of the night (during summer when there's a lot going on around here), but it really freaked me the hell out. I didn't know what was going on, who was good or bad, what was good or bad. The book just sucked me in and even when I got to the parts where the nanotechnology got really freaky, I couldn't stop reading.
Actually, now that I'm out of reading the mystery novel because of it's default ::kicks it::, I'm actually more interested in spending the day curled up with a book. Funny how that works.
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