books

i'm not a blogger, i just post a lot.

so first thing's first, i DID finish The Host and it wasn't devastatingly disappointing. partly because Stephanie Meyer (or perhaps her editor) came to her senses and didn't use the word "chagrin" for the rest of the book.

also, while it definitely won't make it to my top 10 list, it's not bad. and at the end of the day, it's a sci-fi book that was aimed at adults. though the "adult" parts could easily be in YA novel, so idk.

speaking of adult parts, i am now reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series. this is because there is a new show called Game of Thrones on HBO which is based on the series, and i don't want to watch the show without reading the series first. so i've already read A Game of Thrones* and am now on the second book, A Clash of Kings. this guy, btw, is big on alliteration. the rest of the series is named as follows: A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons, The Winds of Winter, A Dream of Spring.

now, honestly, though i am all kinds of enthralled with the series here in the second book, i'm wondering why it's 7 books long. so far it seems like a 4 part series will probably be sufficient. but then, i haven't gotten there, nor do i know the plot of any of the other books, so i don't know. plus, there is SO MUCH DRAMA! every single second someone is plotting or fighting or doing something scandalous. this author (George R.R. Martin) definitely doesn't waste your time with stuff that doesn't advance the story or reveal something about a character.

i will say this though, it is VIOLENT! there is A LOT of violence and sex. but it is plot advancing violence as sex, so justified. but don't say i didn't warn you!

also, sometimes the sex scenes are creepy when you consider that this man wrote them:


i mean, is it just me or does he look... a bit... i dunno, like a creeper! is it just me?

also, 1 1/2 (long) books deep, use of chagrin count: 1

anyway, so because this isn't just a book blog, but this post has gone on long enough, there will be another post either later today or tomorrow talking about things that have nothing to do with books! :P

* apparently the first book is A Game of Thrones and the show is just Game of Thrones. *shrugs* idk.

chuck progress

so last time dear friends, we talked about how i pretty much always act on my random impulse ideas. how sometimes they're great, like #hotnerdsexy, and sometimes they're bad like blogging my progress of two Chuck Klosterman books. but as they're both impulse ideas, they're both coming to fruition.
so here's how the progression of Chuck, or my Chuck Progress* as i'm calling it, is going to work. we're coming up on Blog Every Day in August, and i'm sure no one, including myself wants to read/write an entire blog about a potentially boring and unbloggable book every day. so we're going to do this blog thing as normal, and then , occasionally (when i actually have time to read), in a section of it's own, will be the Chuck Progress. this way, you can skip it with ease if you wish, i get to continue with my suicide mission, and everybody's happy. :)
so, with no further ado:

Chuck Progress

The first thing you will notice is the text is saturated in the word fuck. the next thing you will notice is that it's rather funny. a bit pompous... no shamelessly pompous, just shy of annoying, which makes it tolerable long enough to be funny and even relevant.
--god, sometimes i really like listening to myself talk (write). honestly, so far, it's a bit pessimistic. very "why bother cuz you'll never find true happiness." and i'm, well, far too optimistic to really buy into any of it. but i will say it's entertaining, and does occassionally fall upon pearls of truth. for the record: i'm on page 4.

quotes:

"The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy."

"If Woody Allen had never been born, I'm sure I would be doomed to a life of celibacy."



* i'm calling this project "Chuck Progress" for 2 reasons. 1) the obvious. it's following my progress through Chuck Klosterman books. 2) i think it's clear that i have no real faith in this project and therefore believe that it may in fact end up hindering progress. so, we'll take it by it's other meaning. throw out progress. as in, throw it into the trash. as in, might as well since you'll get equally far either way.