that sounds... interesting? XD

Well I did watch the movie several times. It was on netflix. The only Hellraiser on netflix at the time, and the rest of the b-horror films I had watched were uninspiring. Has some of pinhead's best lines!

ah, gotcha! i wonder if/which ones are on Netflix now. i could turn mine on and look, but... *holds hand out in direction of remote* too far. XD

I have read Oryx and Crake, it was okay. Never did read the other two.
I just finished an amazing book called Trespasser by Tana French, one of the best police procedurals I have ever read. The story was well-crafted and the characters were really well developed and defined. I love the "heroine". It is 6th in a series called The Dublin Murder Squad.

You ever look up artist renditions and such when reading a book? I looked up some Lovecraft things once, because his descriptions just get weird and I'm curious to see what other people imagine. I looked up one of the characters in The Scarlet Gospels but I admit I was disappointed with the rendition.

Lovecraft art is weird... just like the actual stories! XD

I've never done that, but I read a trilogy called Xenogeneses (later Lilith's Brood) by Octavia Butler and I went on Wikipedia and read the descriptions and characteristics of the different beings in the books. It was pretty good too.

welp, I finished the Revenge of Analog, and I think I'm ready to re-read The Handmaid's Tale. I put it that way because I've read a ton of dystopian fiction over the past many years; and I'm still watching the show (i don't actually have Hulu, so shhhh..... XD )

so while I want to re-read it, I don't want to re-read it. and I'm pretty sure that's clear as mud. XD

Hmmm...year's almost half over and I've only finished 1/3 of my goal. Time to pick up the pace.

Found another Clive Barker book on the book sale rack at the doc's today, The Thief of Always. The original purchase receipt was still in it. It cost $7.48 in 1996. GST was a paltry 7%. It's still about the same, actually. I don't think my province charges PST on books.

Dystopian fiction has been overdone. I read Handmaid's Tale a while ago, I probably won't reread it.

I'm halfway through my goal of 50 books, so I am happy about that. I have been reading at a decent clip, I bought a really comfortable chair to read in so I have been reading a lot in my little baby recliner! :)

so i'm re-reading Handmaid's Tale after all. it's book #15 for me. =)

Ideal societies not being ideal is sort of now an accepted idea, but I wouldn't knock off reading it for that. I think more that it's not something people can base a book on anymore. It needs other stuff to go with it, just like you can't stick a wizard and a unicorn in a book so that you can sell a thing called "fantasy."

I walked into Indigo again today. I bought Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist. (this will be by book written by a celebrity) It had nothing at all to do with the fact that there was a gift guard giveaway for purchases totaling over $40. That's totally also not why I bought that special issue of Rue Morgue about Shark horror films.

Not at all.

General update: Half-way through Ivan Denisovich and The Scarlet Gospels. I did not buy The Hellbound Heart at the bookstore today but I did have it in my hand. I might venture to the library for that one. The copy was expensive. I continue to pluck away at Memories of Ice. my friend does not believe I will finish it.

My reading speed is certainly picking up again, though I don't think it will ever again reach pre-college levels.

i'm about a little over a third of the way through the Handmaid's Tale.

my reluctance to read it is that (a) i've read it, and (b) i've read quite a lot of dystopian novels (and if numerically it's not a lot, it sure feels that way) and i wasn't sure if i wanted to read it again.

the main reason i'm reading it again is because i'm watching the series, and i want to see how it compares. the book is first person from the main character, so it's always interesting to see how omniscient tv shows translate the world around the narrator. (and i'm not annoyed by the 'dystopianness' in the novel either.) =)

and: it compares quite nicely. there doesn't seem to be a sense of 'time' in the book - it feels like it's only over a week or something - but in the show, you know it's longer than that. and the outside world in the series is truly scary

as for my reading and speed - if i stop crocheting, i'll probably read more. but i don't want to stop crocheting, so it's a trade-off for me. =)

I just am not comfortable with the subject matter, myself, so just not going there.

I'm looking at the old Witcher short stories now that I've started playing the game.

Haven't been reading as much the past couple of days. Need to get at least one done before I head to visit my dad at the end of the month. I can do more reading on the ferry!