Thursday Aug 09, 2007

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Last night I finished reading Labyrinth by Kate Moss... it was pretty much wonderful. I got quite the enjoyable history lesson, and found myself researching a lot about the Albigensian Crusades. It was really cool how she managed to get all that in there and still make a great story revolving around characters, and connecting them to modern day characters. Awesome.

But now that I have that out of the way... Eclipse!!! You might remember a couple months ago me raving about Twilight and Edward Cullen and things like that... well this is the third book in the series that came out two days ago and I started today and am already 300 pages deep and loving every sentance of.

Oh Edward Cullen. Would that I could spend my whole life reading about you... or looking at you... or making out with you... love

Also, Chrono Trigger was made for me. They've said mayhap, harumph (which was my irritated word of choice when I was younger), and I fought a monster who, every time he attacked, said 'Doom doom doom doom doom'. Love it.

EDIT: Done with Eclipse now. Less that 2 days and now I have to wait a year for the next one. frown
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poolboy6:
I'm trying to get through Mists of Avalon, at the insistence of my friend Jenny. I'm finding it terribly easy. I think I'm having trouble with suspension of disbelief (as it were--basically removing preconceptions from OTHER Arthurian stories I've read). I just can't dig on an Ygraine sympathetic to Uther. Part of the whole deal to me is Uther's use of Merlin's magic for the wrong reasons showing why he isn't fit to wield Excalibur and unite the Britons.

And I'm also reading Islam for Dummies and The Koran for Dummies, but that's for work-related purposes.
poolboy6:
I took a class on the Arthur legend at Penn State. I've been kicking the idea around of doing a set of stories, which would, in effect, be a log of a King Arthur Pendragon RPG campaign, with characters doing things in the backdrop of the greater legend.

Because it's not likely I'd ever be able to actually run a KAP game for a few years (since I won't be in one place long enough to go from the rise of Uther to the Death of Arthur, and anything less would just lack payoff), it lets me enjoy the depth of the legend.

What keeps me from it now is finding characters that will talk to me that aren't either overdone or just blah.

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