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[jazzfish]

You know what pisses me off? People who can't be bothered to say who they are when you answer the phone and assume that I'll be able to recognize them from their voices.
This is even better when the caller doesn't say "Can I talk to Neil?" and just starts going on about dinner plans and I'm standing there thinking "Who are you and why do I want to have dinner with you?"

On a lighter note I finished Ender's Game again this afternoon. It's still really, really good. So I'm rereading Speaker for the Dead for class, and it's also really, really good, and it's going to take actual effort for me not to start rereading Xenocide and Children of the Mind despite knowing deep in my heart that they both sucked a lot. Luckily, I have Dune books 2 and 3 to take my mind off them. Plus Dictionary of the Khazars for class.

Finished Soul Reaver 2 last week. A bit short, and not as cool as the original. Good plot, well-voice-acted (they got Rene Auberjonois to do Janos Audron), and, as Zarf said, one genuinely "oh-my-god" moment of plot towards the end relating to events in Blood Omen. ("Call your dogs-- they can feast on your corpses!") I eagerly await the third installment in a year or so.

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[beracjade.livejournal.com]

i read the whole dune series, as well as the first two prequels (i've got house corrino waiting to be read), but the only one from the original series i enjoyed was the first one. heretics of dune was good, but having to suffer through the three books in between just wasn't worth it, imo. as for mr. card, i've never read speaker for the dead or the follow-ons to that, but ender's shadow is really, really good, and i've got shadow of the hegemon (continuation of bean's story) in my shelf, unopened.


i'm still fighting my way through rober jordan's the wheel of time series....

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[jazzfish]

I read Dune last year and it was excellent excellent stuff, so I'm willing to at least try the next couple.
As for Card... Speaker is also excellent excellent stuff, but stay away from the other two. (They came into existence because his agent called him one day and said "Great news! I've sold your Ender trilogy overseas!" and he said "Better count again" and she said "Well, can't you go ahead and write another one?") Ender's Shadow was also good, and Shadow of the Hegemon was not as good, and Emily tells me that Shadow Puppets sucked in a big, ugly way.

As for Robert Jordan, I humbly direct your attention here. :)

"I remember when *I* wrote descriptive prose with a bag over my head so I couldn't see what I was writing about."

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[vond.livejournal.com]

I'm reading Dune now. Finally. What the hell took me so long?

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[jazzfish]

I didn't push it on anyone because I first read it in eighth grade and a lot of it went right over my head, so I thought it sucked. I reread it last year and thought it was great, but didn't bother to push it on anyone for some reason. (Probably too busy having my soul crushed by Syncad.)

My only real complaint is that Liet-Kynes could have been a really, really cool character, but we see practically nothing of him.