bounty42 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bounty42) wrote,@ 2008-02-29 00:22:00 |
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So I've found myself more in input mode than output mode tonight.
This afternoon I finished off Book 3 in Wheel of Time again. I seem to have lost my copy, so my wife checked one out on my last library run. With her out of town for a few days I managed to finish off teh Spiderman book I got, the Dresend Files 2, and the Wheel of Time 3 in about 4 days.
Of course this means library run time.
I know where Wheel of Time 4 and 5 are, so I decided to just get Dresden 3. They had it on CD and Book, so I got both, I enjoy being able to listen while I drive, and it's a damn site safer than reading while I drive.
then I decided to go look for Robert Howard, just to verify they didn't have Solomon Kane. They didn't, and there was one I almost picked up, but I didn't want to get a lot of books. Since I wanted the Solomon Kane for an RPG, I went to look a tthe RPG section. That's 793.9 for those who enjoy browsing in the Dewie Decimal parts of the library. Then I decided to go look at the comics. I wanted to get some Sandman, because I've never read it, and I'm thinking about my writing, and the story I'm working on has paralells. I also wanted Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective agency, and Log Dark teatime of teh soul, but they were out. While looking at comics, I made an AMAZING discovery. They aren't Fiction!
Now while the reality that Batman does indeed have a non-fiction tag of 741.7... that ment that theortetically there could be a section of comics in teh library that weren't in the kiddie section. Sure enough I found more books in the stacks, and while they didn't have Sandman 1, I picked up Sandman 4, because I wanted a feel, not the exact story. I also noticed a Scanner Darkley comic. Of course I had to get this, and since I had it, I might as well get Scanner Darkly in Paperback to compare against.
At this point, my 1 or 2 books is up to 5, and I'm in huntung mode, so I go through all my authors in teh catalog, looking for new reciepts. Much to my shock,I ahven't read any laurell K Hamilton in 2 years, so I pick up the next Anita Blake and Meredith Gentry book. I'm hopeing these are better than the last two, as of late Hamilton has devolved from interestingly dark and sentual horror with some graphic sex to slasher nerd pr0n, but I still like the theory behind the characters, even if I do find myself saiying "ok, we get it, she has yet another orgy. Can wer get back to the plot now?" Seriously Meredith Gentry 4 was 400 pages, the plot andanved less than 48 hours, and there were 14 different sexual encounters. At this point she's had close to 50 partners since her last cycle.
Long story short, I came home with 8 books, which is close to 100 hours of reading. I don't think I'll be writing a lot of fiction in the next two weeks.
Then again, I did just do 550 words on why I'm not writing tonght...
Now up to bed to read, I want to get 40 to 50 pages of Dresden 3 down before I pass out tonight.
This afternoon I finished off Book 3 in Wheel of Time again. I seem to have lost my copy, so my wife checked one out on my last library run. With her out of town for a few days I managed to finish off teh Spiderman book I got, the Dresend Files 2, and the Wheel of Time 3 in about 4 days.
Of course this means library run time.
I know where Wheel of Time 4 and 5 are, so I decided to just get Dresden 3. They had it on CD and Book, so I got both, I enjoy being able to listen while I drive, and it's a damn site safer than reading while I drive.
then I decided to go look for Robert Howard, just to verify they didn't have Solomon Kane. They didn't, and there was one I almost picked up, but I didn't want to get a lot of books. Since I wanted the Solomon Kane for an RPG, I went to look a tthe RPG section. That's 793.9 for those who enjoy browsing in the Dewie Decimal parts of the library. Then I decided to go look at the comics. I wanted to get some Sandman, because I've never read it, and I'm thinking about my writing, and the story I'm working on has paralells. I also wanted Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective agency, and Log Dark teatime of teh soul, but they were out. While looking at comics, I made an AMAZING discovery. They aren't Fiction!
Now while the reality that Batman does indeed have a non-fiction tag of 741.7... that ment that theortetically there could be a section of comics in teh library that weren't in the kiddie section. Sure enough I found more books in the stacks, and while they didn't have Sandman 1, I picked up Sandman 4, because I wanted a feel, not the exact story. I also noticed a Scanner Darkley comic. Of course I had to get this, and since I had it, I might as well get Scanner Darkly in Paperback to compare against.
At this point, my 1 or 2 books is up to 5, and I'm in huntung mode, so I go through all my authors in teh catalog, looking for new reciepts. Much to my shock,I ahven't read any laurell K Hamilton in 2 years, so I pick up the next Anita Blake and Meredith Gentry book. I'm hopeing these are better than the last two, as of late Hamilton has devolved from interestingly dark and sentual horror with some graphic sex to slasher nerd pr0n, but I still like the theory behind the characters, even if I do find myself saiying "ok, we get it, she has yet another orgy. Can wer get back to the plot now?" Seriously Meredith Gentry 4 was 400 pages, the plot andanved less than 48 hours, and there were 14 different sexual encounters. At this point she's had close to 50 partners since her last cycle.
Long story short, I came home with 8 books, which is close to 100 hours of reading. I don't think I'll be writing a lot of fiction in the next two weeks.
Then again, I did just do 550 words on why I'm not writing tonght...
Now up to bed to read, I want to get 40 to 50 pages of Dresden 3 down before I pass out tonight.
