NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

ohh dear. i didn't mean poo.

i meant grill. LAWLLLLSS!!

You meant "grille".

what the hell is a grille?

so i was a lady and read a book.

LALA PIPO !

read it.

The correct spelling is "grille", because it's a comparison with the radiator grille on a car.

lawls. i bet most black people would just spell it grill.

Maybe they would.

So there a Little While Ago I read another trilogy by Robin Hobb. I think she's incapable of writing in anything less than trilogies.

The Soldier Son Trilogy
Shaman's Crossing - Forest Mage - Renegade's Magic

It's good. You really invest in the characters to the point where the narrator, Nevare is at points very frustrating and sometimes other characters are more interesting than him.

and a few things annoyed me about the ending.

But I genuinely enjoyed the story. Or I had to see where it was going, at least.

Hogfather* is fantastic. It's about an attempt to kill the Hogfather, Discworld's equivalent of Santa Claus. And how "HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN". Death fills in for the Hogfather. Like I say, brilliant.
*by Terry Pratchett

The Twilight books were written horribly. They were addicting. She wrote slightly better in The Host, which was her book that was geared more towards adults. I kid you not, that's about what it says. Because as far as the Twilight series goes, suicide, sex, death, and excessive violence are what every thirteen year old emo kid needs to read about. Not that I really have any problem with any of those in my books. Maybe its her big letters, and lack of vocabulary that makes her so popular with the kids.

On another note. Read the Kushiel series, by Jacueline Carey. It's phenomenal. I have to order the next three books in it.

P.S. If kids around the world start killing each other because they want to come back as vampires, I will laugh. Teenagers ruined vampires for me.

I like True Blood. I have bought the first book in the Series the show is based on (Dead Until Dark) and will eventually read it.

Twilight is poo, but addictive. I read all four books in 6 days, 8 days prior to an exam.

I haven't read True Blood, but man does that show irritate me. What sort of name is Sookie? I'm sick of all this vampire crap. Joss Wheden is the only person who ever did anything good with the concept of vampires.

And that includes Bram Stoker, I just read Dracula as I have to review the 'authorized' sequel. Alright book but boring vamps. seventh book is shaping up well.

The Historian is epic, but only if you're into Vlad the Impaler/history's mass murderers/serial killers like I am.

I'm not deranged, I swear.

There's been a lot of it around lately alright. I like the show, it's fun.


That's clearly rubbish. Whedon stands on the shoulders of giants! *much finger shaking*

(but seriously, c'mon)


I have also read Dracula. Yeah, it's alright.

Joss Whedon is the only person ever to successfully create an entire universe where vampires looked awesome and occasionally kicked arse, but still were reduced to insignificance by virtually everything else in the demon world, because they are half breeds, drawing on the story of Lillith (my favourite version of how vampires came into being), his brooding vamp is the ONLY one who seems authentic, because he's got 242 years of crimes to atone for, and a struggle between the lousy human he was providing a conscience for the demon he felt he had become. Supporting that is a fantastic cast which developed immensely over seven years, as well as giving said vampire his own freaking show, which was even more adult, dealt with arguably more adult and more true-too-life scenarios although represented by demons and crap than anything else I've ever seen o read in the genre, and an entire demonology of other demons and nasties.

Not to mention some of the best scripting in the history of man 'google 'Buffy: Amends quotes', which has nothing to do with vampires specifically, and everything to do with every single person who watches it.

Buffy: That thing that was haunting you...
Angel: It wasn't haunting me. It was showing me.
Buffy: Showing you?
Angel: What I am.
Buffy: Were.
Angel: And ever shall be. Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.
Buffy: You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Angel, you have the power to do real good, to make amends. But if you die now, then all that you ever were was a monster.

It sounds a bit melodramatic out of context, so it's worth noting Angel was on the verge of committing suicide. Such things inspire melodrama.

eh. I think you're giving Joss Whedon too much credit. He made a few good TV shows, he didn't re-invent the wheel. end.

I know I'm probably giving him too little credit now!

What you're saying seems to me like arguing that J.K. Rowling wrote the best vision of Wizards and magic ever published.