backtalking to Norse gods as a hobby
Aug. 2nd, 2007 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreI'm reading Mickey Zucker Reichert's Bifrost Guardians series about mortals caught up in the conflicts of the norse gods. While this may sound relatively normal, I'd like to point out that our heroes are a soldier killed in Vietnam and transported into the body of an lf, a german thief, and a samurai warrior. As these guys never heard of the norse gods before getting there, they lack the proper respect due to the gods and, not over pleased with having their lives manipulated, they backtalk. A lot. Guess it changes things a lot whn you know they need you alive.
Not that they're all necessarily all there to start with...the soldier is pretty much insane, the thief thinks "Impossible defenses and 5000000 death traps" means "please come steal from me," and the samurai ended the first book by announcing that he was going to go raid hell and get his mistress(of the Lord and Master variety) back. Clearly, their brains to not operate in the same realms of reality as others.
There will be a proper post on it later(it's 5 short books in 2 omnibuses and I'm near the end of the 3rd and will have the second monday or Tuesday, so I'm just waiting until I've read the whole set for a proper post)
For the curous, comics, manga, and hopefully a coupla trades aside, reading goal for the month is these, the rest of the Dark Hunters series, and the rest of the 2146 series.
ETA: Hmm...just realized...I got Eldest a few months back but haven't rad it yet...probably because, while I like the world and story and adore Murtagh, I can't stand Eragon himself. I also need to get and read the more recent Simon R. Green and Juliet Marrillier books.
Not that they're all necessarily all there to start with...the soldier is pretty much insane, the thief thinks "Impossible defenses and 5000000 death traps" means "please come steal from me," and the samurai ended the first book by announcing that he was going to go raid hell and get his mistress(of the Lord and Master variety) back. Clearly, their brains to not operate in the same realms of reality as others.
There will be a proper post on it later(it's 5 short books in 2 omnibuses and I'm near the end of the 3rd and will have the second monday or Tuesday, so I'm just waiting until I've read the whole set for a proper post)
For the curous, comics, manga, and hopefully a coupla trades aside, reading goal for the month is these, the rest of the Dark Hunters series, and the rest of the 2146 series.
ETA: Hmm...just realized...I got Eldest a few months back but haven't rad it yet...probably because, while I like the world and story and adore Murtagh, I can't stand Eragon himself. I also need to get and read the more recent Simon R. Green and Juliet Marrillier books.