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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...

Re: Harry Dresden

Date: 29 August 2004 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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