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[salinea]

Woke up awfully late tonight. Went to buy a gift for my mother's birthday (we celebrate it tomorrow), I was out of ideas and finally picked a book by Ruth Rendel. Hope she hasn't got it already / will like it.
On the way to the store, I met an old friend from school; Bertille. We chatted for some time, she's a very sweet and funny girl and I was very glad to meet her. Looks like we've got a plan to go take some modern-jazz dancing classes together as debutant !
Tonight we watched Lost in La Mancha, which made me even more worshipful of Terry Gillian than I was before. And so sad the film didn't get to be made :'(

Finally finished reading the second Harry Dresden book yesterday; and I'm not impressed. Those aren't half good as the Anita Blake books, the main character gets on my nerve (self-righteous idiot), the universe is just so borringly manicheist, and the magic looks like it's out of a RPG game (in a not-good way). Hum, even thought the plots are okay, I'm not sure I'll get the sequels. LK Hamilton's books might be crap, but at least it's crap I enjoy reading and devours quickly, perfect way to distract and entertain myself. Now if only she stopped pretending to write erotica and got back to the good stuff...

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Harry Dresden

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh, the dancing sounds cool and a great way to keep in shape - if one has any sense of rythm which unfortunately I do not. Rendell is a favorite of mine, and happy bday celebration to your mother!

About Harry Dresden, only read the first one and will not be reading any more, I do agree, that was my impression so far. Charlaine Harris, I like a lot, and think she writes lots better. Pretty different than LKH writing wise, but I think I like her writing better, so if you are in the mood for sort-of-like-LKH try Harris. If you can find it offline of course - I will drag you into ordering online one day, probably!

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[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll be a total novice into dancing, so we shall see XD and yes I do need a stay-in-shape activity. I barely do any kind of sports.

Heh, have to check Rendell if you like it. My mother seems to have appreciated it ^^

Charlaine Harris, all right, noted ! Oh there's good english bookshops in Paris, I have hope, we shall see ;)

Re: Harry Dresden

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

About Rendell, be picky about it, ask your mother´s opinion on the best and whatever. When she is bad she is ok but nothing special, when she is good she if awesome and fascinating and writes totally memorable stuff. But she is round 60 years or so and has been writing a couple novels a year for quite a while, some are brilliant, most are quite good, and a few are just so so in my opinion.

About Harris, do give it a try when you can, go Paris bookshops! ( yes, I am envious about the bookshops). I liked her first book quite a bit, the second a lot, and the third even better , and am now suffering 4th book in hardback cravings. And it really is nicely written and plotted, not ASOIAF but fun and pretty good without being ambitious.

[lizzyrd.livejournal.com]

Hiii. I like X, we share a few mutual friends, and .. I don't know. Would you consider adding me? ;x

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Sure ! ^^