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I've been feeling sick a lot recently, and thus have read/watched a bunch of stuff.
The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler: Very good, follows the main character from "The Parable of the Sower" as she tries to maintain her religious community in the face of an increasingly fascistic and violent fundamentalist christian government. Deals with family, loss, slavery, lots of things. SO SAD. Seriously, I am writing this post just to cheer myself up. But not self consciously tragic, sad in a "Life sucks, bad stuff happens sometimes" sort of way, Like George R R Martin.
Shopgirl by Steve Martin: Ok character study I guess. Has the moral that vulnerable young women need a strong, self confident, successful man who will pay for all their stuff :/
Halting State by Charles Stross: Near future, an impossible robbery happens in an MMO and draws together several charcaters who try to figure out what happened for their own reasons and get caught up in something much bigger. Quite entertaining and enjoyably geeky, in my opinion a much better book than "The Atrocity Archives" but has a less cracktasticly awesome premise. Both have a bit of a Gary Stu-ishness to their male geek protagonist.
Dr Who Season 2: I liked this more than season one, possibly because David Tennant is so darn adorable. I was all set to dislike Rose (The doctor does not have a love interest dammit! What makes her so darn special?) but she grew on me. Overall I liked it, even if it was pretty patchy.
The Manchurian Candidate (original): I uh..got so bored I stopped watching. I don't have much tolerance for the stately pace of old thrillers. The bits with the communists as little old ladies were amusingly bizarre.
27 Dresses: Not the best movie ever, but I enjoyed this. I actually believed the protagonists as real people who suited each other.
Iron Man: Made of awesome. Except for the bits which weren't (it was a little racist, and the ending reminded me of the Ang Lee Hulk in a bad way)
Plus lots of fanfic. None really grabbed me, but Blue Screen of Death is a cute little Discworld story.
The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler: Very good, follows the main character from "The Parable of the Sower" as she tries to maintain her religious community in the face of an increasingly fascistic and violent fundamentalist christian government. Deals with family, loss, slavery, lots of things. SO SAD. Seriously, I am writing this post just to cheer myself up. But not self consciously tragic, sad in a "Life sucks, bad stuff happens sometimes" sort of way, Like George R R Martin.
Shopgirl by Steve Martin: Ok character study I guess. Has the moral that vulnerable young women need a strong, self confident, successful man who will pay for all their stuff :/
Halting State by Charles Stross: Near future, an impossible robbery happens in an MMO and draws together several charcaters who try to figure out what happened for their own reasons and get caught up in something much bigger. Quite entertaining and enjoyably geeky, in my opinion a much better book than "The Atrocity Archives" but has a less cracktasticly awesome premise. Both have a bit of a Gary Stu-ishness to their male geek protagonist.
Dr Who Season 2: I liked this more than season one, possibly because David Tennant is so darn adorable. I was all set to dislike Rose (The doctor does not have a love interest dammit! What makes her so darn special?) but she grew on me. Overall I liked it, even if it was pretty patchy.
The Manchurian Candidate (original): I uh..got so bored I stopped watching. I don't have much tolerance for the stately pace of old thrillers. The bits with the communists as little old ladies were amusingly bizarre.
27 Dresses: Not the best movie ever, but I enjoyed this. I actually believed the protagonists as real people who suited each other.
Iron Man: Made of awesome. Except for the bits which weren't (it was a little racist, and the ending reminded me of the Ang Lee Hulk in a bad way)
Plus lots of fanfic. None really grabbed me, but Blue Screen of Death is a cute little Discworld story.
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