It's the first of the month, so as usual that means another of these topics for all your random discussional needs. Chat casually about anything from what your playing/watching/reading at the moment, how disasterous (or otherwise), your life might be, to pretty much anything else that occurs to you.
Also remember that no rule says you can only post in this topic once, feel free to throw in any comments, observations or whatever that occur to you.
Of course, as Lord high topic starterer I get to go first .
Today I'll probably be heading off to spend some more time at my brother's, first going out for an awsome meal somewhere and then sitting around continuing with attack on titan on his home projector system. This should be awsome, sinse Attack on Titan is looking definitely interesting despite rather over inflated dialogue in the dub.
I'm also really! storming through Patrick Rothfus Kingkiller series, I've only got about another six hours of name of the wind left and considering that I started the book on Thursday that's quite going some .
Very great to see a fantasy author who can write, and the setup is intreaguing particularly how rather than a global view of the world like in WoT or Mistborm you follow a sigle character, which I actually prefer. I also really admire the way that Rothfus doesn't just have the hole book be a parade of depressing grimness, there are as many good strangers as bad ones, also the book isn't all war and battles either, indeed it's quite refreshing to read something that gets it's conflicts and excitement through means other than mighty sword battles, ---- not that a good dramatic fight isn't a bad thing if handled properly in the plot and described well, but you can feel sometimes as if your reading a transcript of a computer game about how the main character goes to his first war and gains so much experience points which he puts into sword skill .
My only cryticism is that the romance seems a little too shiny, albeit that sinse the story is being told by the main character I can sort of understand the reason why it seems more significant. I also like the way that the main character is setup as ridiculously brilliant at pretty much everything from music to smithing, but that this doesn't exactly get him too farwith things either.
I won't unfortunately be writing a review of the books for fantasybookreview.co.uk, sinse the lady who writes many reviews (and who I often agree with), has already done a fine job with Rothfus, though I have just sent off a speculative peace for their blog on the subject of escapism, we'll see how that goes.
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)