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Etrangere ([personal profile] salinea) wrote2004-08-28 11:57 pm

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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...

Harry Dresden

[identity profile] generalblossom.livejournal.com 2004-08-29 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] lizzyrd.livejournal.com 2004-08-29 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hiii. I like X, we share a few mutual friends, and .. I don't know. Would you consider adding me? ;x