ok - i wrote this entry and then decided the last paragraph was most interesting and put it first and then flipped all the paragraphs around. so now the last paragraph makes no sense, but this post gets so dull by then that i don't expect anyone will get that far.
i started reading ender's game yesterday. i've been kinda wanting to read it for a while. i'd heard good things about it. i'm enjoying it. i have no idea how it's going to end. i have no idea where it's going to go from scene to scene, which makes it the best thing i've read / watched / played in ages. because it's rare to find something that isn't predictable. actually, now that i think of it: watchmen wasn't really predictable. but anyway - with ender's game, i don't trust the narrator at all. which always makes for a fun read. yea - i stayed up until 3 reading last night. i just couldn't make myself stop reading and go to sleep.
on monday we got shelves and put them up. i say we, but it was lordkilljoy did most of the work. i let him, simply because he was faster than me. (indeed!) but his sitting room looks good now. his new tv unit thing looks really good, especially with all the stuff in it. it's like a shrine to technological entertainment. then i stayed up until just before 3 playing assassin's creed. i didn't mean to. the time just sort of passed me by, like a stealthy ninja.
sunday was a special day, because i got to play assassin's creed. :)
assassin's creed, for all the snarky reviews it got, is quite a fun game to play. and it's so pretty. and there is so much to do. ok, a lot of it may be repetitive collection things or objective things but free-running across the rooftops of cities is so much fun.
saturday, deluge day, we spent in an attempt to look around the shops of dublin, but the irish monsoon got in the way of those plans. we got the entire rainfall of august in 6 hours. drains were overflowing, roads were buckling and the rain was so heavy you got wet through in seconds. it was fun to watch, though.
but it didn't disrupt plans for sushi in goblin_insane's. the food was good, the games (transEurope and german trading game) fun and we got to watch some olympics.
my weekend in some short words would read: a rainy party with making shelves and having fun playing games.
hmm, that may not make much scene to anyone who wasn't there. i had an excellent weekend. it started on friday when i spent the entire length of the olympics opening ceremony on a bus to dublin. but that was ok - i had music and "order of the stick" for company.
Ender's Game is great, definitely something I want to reread at some point. The book after that hasn't been able to hold my attention very long each time I've tried it, but maybe I'll make it through eventually.
ReplyDeleteEnder's Game is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI have some of the follow on ones as well - it takes two separate routes, one of which I enjoyed, the other not so much, but the other is generally regarded as having more literary value. Like, whatever :) I'll hunt them out for you, I think they are in Cork. There's one you should definitely read (unless you hate the book by the end :)), the rest are a bit take it or leave it.
cool. thanks :)
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