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I was watching Anderson Cooper 360 with my folks. Something about Madonna falling off a horse. I was in the middle of saying something snarky and then I look around and they're both passed out asleep on the couch. It was 8:15.
I can't wait to get old.
I went to the bookstore and read "Sky Burial" by Xinran, the lady who wrote "The Good Women of China" It was fucking amazing. Great book. I tried to find "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" but i couldn't find it on the shelf so instead I read some Rankin book. I'm working my way through the series.
The problem with reading books where the author is still alive is that you have to wait around while they write the next one. And then you might forget about the series. Or get really agitated while you wait. Or it takes so long between books that you forget where in the story you are. Case and point, harry potter. The books just come too far apart. That's why i don't really like being totally into a living author. Their body of work isn't done yet. You get dissapointed if they write some shit book later on, like Helen Fielding. When the authors are dead, they've already written all the books possible. There's no waiting around. I can then read their body of books from start to finish in chronological order of when they were written and then be satisfied that i've read all their books. Of course there's always the agatha christie problem where there's so many books you can't remember which ones you've read. And you can't be sure of the order they were written in because they re-release them under different titles. Drives me fuckin nuts. Libraries don't often have all the books in the series, or they've lost some of them. So then you're forced to read the books they have first, and then go running around sourcing the rest of them. That's why I go to bookstores. They usually have the whole frikin series.
I also recently polished off the whole SinCity comics series. Its fuckin amazing, but now i have to wait around until he writes more or the movies come out again. I didn't go to the comic book shop though, fanboys drive me nuts. I just downloaded some compilation of all the series. Maybe when Frank Miller dies and they put out a box set of everything I'll buy it.
This blog sucks.
In other news here's a really ugly dog
Sam, the world's ugliest dog
I can't wait to get old.
I went to the bookstore and read "Sky Burial" by Xinran, the lady who wrote "The Good Women of China" It was fucking amazing. Great book. I tried to find "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" but i couldn't find it on the shelf so instead I read some Rankin book. I'm working my way through the series.
The problem with reading books where the author is still alive is that you have to wait around while they write the next one. And then you might forget about the series. Or get really agitated while you wait. Or it takes so long between books that you forget where in the story you are. Case and point, harry potter. The books just come too far apart. That's why i don't really like being totally into a living author. Their body of work isn't done yet. You get dissapointed if they write some shit book later on, like Helen Fielding. When the authors are dead, they've already written all the books possible. There's no waiting around. I can then read their body of books from start to finish in chronological order of when they were written and then be satisfied that i've read all their books. Of course there's always the agatha christie problem where there's so many books you can't remember which ones you've read. And you can't be sure of the order they were written in because they re-release them under different titles. Drives me fuckin nuts. Libraries don't often have all the books in the series, or they've lost some of them. So then you're forced to read the books they have first, and then go running around sourcing the rest of them. That's why I go to bookstores. They usually have the whole frikin series.
I also recently polished off the whole SinCity comics series. Its fuckin amazing, but now i have to wait around until he writes more or the movies come out again. I didn't go to the comic book shop though, fanboys drive me nuts. I just downloaded some compilation of all the series. Maybe when Frank Miller dies and they put out a box set of everything I'll buy it.
This blog sucks.
In other news here's a really ugly dog
Sam, the world's ugliest dog
posted by theMak at 9:19 p.m.
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