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Après la pluie
7 Apr 2005 11:47 pmAfter being depressed, which matured into agressive bad mood and festered into cold and scornful amusement at the world and myself, it seems my good mood has finally come back. Yay, cheer !
Told my parents about not wanting to finish how much I've been bored in classes and maybe not wanting to finish the MBA. That went better than I expected. From now on, when i want to negotiate something with them, I have to take them separately. It works much better than when they're together.
Books, I finished reading Bakker's Prince of Nothing during the vacations, as expected. It was pretty cool. Very similar to Erikson in many ways : the sheer exubrant exoticism of the setting, the decadent empires and barbarians conflicts, the sheer amount of power of some of the characters, the brutal In Media Res approach without any explanations or introduction to the world, the epic breath though on a lessened manner than Erikson. As I was warned, most of the characters are very difficult to like. Even those who are somewhat sympathetic are often portrayed as being hesitant and foolish. Despite that it's quite enjoyable, though I'll wait to read the second volume before i'll say I consider it a great serie. I did find one character to love, but he's a very minor one whom I fell for only because of two one liners that made me go "Oh, I cannot not love this man" : Krijates Iryssas (Xinemus' nephew). Poor guy isn't even listed in the annex... I hope he at least makes an appearance in the second XD Otherwise I did found myself rather rooting for the Emperor and his nephew, despite how ridiculously arrogant, foolish and petty they were. Probably because at least they're not zealot (did I mention a big part of the plot turned around a Holy Crusade and the crucial matter of who would manipulate well enough to use it as a tool ?) The actual main character of this book is however, in a completly uncharming manner, a twink, a munchkin of the worst terrible sort... and he doesn't even fight with two katanas. Horrible.
My appartment is currently being painted. My future bedroom is a light mauve. I love mauve <3
Finally bought Tori Amos' new CD. Looks cool so far. Need more listening.
ETA :
( princess bride quizz )
Because Princess Bride was part of my mood getting better. I also got my father to watch it along with me, and then spent some time trying to tell him that the duel between Oberyn Martel and Gregor Clegane was referencing to Inigo Montoya with the repetition of "Elia Martel. You killed her. You raped her. You killed her children"... alas it turned out my father had forgotten all about th Red Viper... How can you forget about Oberyn, the sexiest man of the Seven Kingdoms ? it's beyond me O_o
Told my parents about not wanting to finish how much I've been bored in classes and maybe not wanting to finish the MBA. That went better than I expected. From now on, when i want to negotiate something with them, I have to take them separately. It works much better than when they're together.
Books, I finished reading Bakker's Prince of Nothing during the vacations, as expected. It was pretty cool. Very similar to Erikson in many ways : the sheer exubrant exoticism of the setting, the decadent empires and barbarians conflicts, the sheer amount of power of some of the characters, the brutal In Media Res approach without any explanations or introduction to the world, the epic breath though on a lessened manner than Erikson. As I was warned, most of the characters are very difficult to like. Even those who are somewhat sympathetic are often portrayed as being hesitant and foolish. Despite that it's quite enjoyable, though I'll wait to read the second volume before i'll say I consider it a great serie. I did find one character to love, but he's a very minor one whom I fell for only because of two one liners that made me go "Oh, I cannot not love this man" : Krijates Iryssas (Xinemus' nephew). Poor guy isn't even listed in the annex... I hope he at least makes an appearance in the second XD Otherwise I did found myself rather rooting for the Emperor and his nephew, despite how ridiculously arrogant, foolish and petty they were. Probably because at least they're not zealot (did I mention a big part of the plot turned around a Holy Crusade and the crucial matter of who would manipulate well enough to use it as a tool ?) The actual main character of this book is however, in a completly uncharming manner, a twink, a munchkin of the worst terrible sort... and he doesn't even fight with two katanas. Horrible.
My appartment is currently being painted. My future bedroom is a light mauve. I love mauve <3
Finally bought Tori Amos' new CD. Looks cool so far. Need more listening.
ETA :
( princess bride quizz )
Because Princess Bride was part of my mood getting better. I also got my father to watch it along with me, and then spent some time trying to tell him that the duel between Oberyn Martel and Gregor Clegane was referencing to Inigo Montoya with the repetition of "Elia Martel. You killed her. You raped her. You killed her children"... alas it turned out my father had forgotten all about th Red Viper... How can you forget about Oberyn, the sexiest man of the Seven Kingdoms ? it's beyond me O_o