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Nov. 19th, 2007
Jim Butcher on climaxes.
Nov. 19th, 2007 02:13 amStory climaxes.
Behave yourselves.
Interesting analysis and explanation of the climax and its function in a story here.
Jim Butcher on climaxes.
Nov. 19th, 2007 02:13 amStory climaxes.
Behave yourselves.
Interesting analysis and explanation of the climax and its function in a story here.
mythic manga recs?
Nov. 19th, 2007 05:47 pmAnyone want to rec:
1) Manga that takes specific myths or legends and turns them on itheir heads and readapts them, either subtly or blatantly, or even just heavily myth based(thinking of things like Saiyuki, Hoshin Engi/Soul Hunter, Shin Angyo Onshi, Otogi Zoshi, etc...)
1A) Or applies them directly to the modern world(such as Ayashi no Ceres...I'm sure I'll be appalled later for not having more examples of this)
(note: I'm familiar with One Thousand and One Nights, but am uninterested as making Scherarazade male and leaving the sultan male loses the entire point of the framing story)
2) Wotl's that are near-direct allegories for ancient asian-or other-societies or myth-based worlds(ex: Fushigi Yugi, Juuni Kokuki/Twelve Kingdoms)
mythic manga recs?
Nov. 19th, 2007 05:47 pmAnyone want to rec:
1) Manga that takes specific myths or legends and turns them on itheir heads and readapts them, either subtly or blatantly, or even just heavily myth based(thinking of things like Saiyuki, Hoshin Engi/Soul Hunter, Shin Angyo Onshi, Otogi Zoshi, etc...)
1A) Or applies them directly to the modern world(such as Ayashi no Ceres...I'm sure I'll be appalled later for not having more examples of this)
(note: I'm familiar with One Thousand and One Nights, but am uninterested as making Scherarazade male and leaving the sultan male loses the entire point of the framing story)
2) Wotl's that are near-direct allegories for ancient asian-or other-societies or myth-based worlds(ex: Fushigi Yugi, Juuni Kokuki/Twelve Kingdoms)
I have been ABANDONED!
Nov. 19th, 2007 08:16 pm2 people called in today, leaving 3 of us in my dept in this building.
2 just left to stand in line for 4 hours for...uhm...a game that's being released at midnight(Rock something or something rock, I think)
There are 2 left at the other building(though one may have also left to stand in line) but that's a couple miles away.
The point is...
I HAVE NO ONE AT ALL TO KEEP ME COMPANY FOR THE NEXT FOUR HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!
2 just left to stand in line for 4 hours for...uhm...a game that's being released at midnight(Rock something or something rock, I think)
There are 2 left at the other building(though one may have also left to stand in line) but that's a couple miles away.
The point is...
I HAVE NO ONE AT ALL TO KEEP ME COMPANY FOR THE NEXT FOUR HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been ABANDONED!
Nov. 19th, 2007 08:16 pm2 people called in today, leaving 3 of us in my dept in this building.
2 just left to stand in line for 4 hours for...uhm...a game that's being released at midnight(Rock something or something rock, I think)
There are 2 left at the other building(though one may have also left to stand in line) but that's a couple miles away.
The point is...
I HAVE NO ONE AT ALL TO KEEP ME COMPANY FOR THE NEXT FOUR HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!
2 just left to stand in line for 4 hours for...uhm...a game that's being released at midnight(Rock something or something rock, I think)
There are 2 left at the other building(though one may have also left to stand in line) but that's a couple miles away.
The point is...
I HAVE NO ONE AT ALL TO KEEP ME COMPANY FOR THE NEXT FOUR HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!
Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward
Nov. 19th, 2007 11:23 pmLover Eternal is the second book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. As I posted on the first book just a few days ago, I won't get deeply into it(click the tag) but the short version is that they're like the Dark Hunter books, only to the Nth Degree, less emo and more badass. Oh, and I don't mind reading about these Mary Sues, while most of the DH ones drive me batty.
LE is about Rhage, the supermanslut brother has literally has a demon living inside him. He somewhat unwisely meets and falls in love with Mary(is there also a heroine named Sue? I DEMAND A HEROINE NAMED SUE!!!!) a pure young woman with cancer who works with young autistic children. I ask you, how do you get more angsty vampire romance than that?
I admit, like the first book, I'm not sure it was necessarily "good," though I think I'm closer to being able to say I liked it. Though, I still didn't care aboutthe romance. The main romance that is.
But then, about 3/4s through, Ward gave me Zsadist/Bella after briefly hinting at it early on. I. AM. IN. LOVE. I freely confess to spending most of there on out wishing that Rhage and Mary would angst over her leukemia and his demon somewhere else so it could be all about Zsadist and Bella. When i go for obsessive and messed up, I majorly go for seriously obsessive and seriously messed up. Because Zsadist? Think of Zarek from DH(BEST! CHARACTER! IN! SERIES!...except Ash...and it should be noted that the only DH romance I care about is Zarek/Astrid...all the other girls could die and I wouldn't mind...well, except Dangereuse, I kinda liked her...but a couple I'd rather have die), only 100 times more so. I honestly have no idea how to explain Zsadist/Bella right now, but I shall try in their book.
There's also John Matthew...I get a glimmer of why I'm going to be awed by and in love with him later, but right now I'm still rather "aww...mute kiddie soon-to-be-vampire from the streets with eoobie issues."
Also, on the name front, we have added Tohrture and Rehvenge, neither of whom we actually meet, but as Rehvenge is Bella seriously overprotective(by all accounts) brother, I'm sure he'll be all over Zsadist and Bella's book.
Oh, and in addition to having their True Love's name carved into their back at wedding ceremonies, the brothers apparently also mourn while kneeling naked on either shards of glass or sharp diamonds, I'm not sure it was confirmed which.
I wonder what's in the water Ward drinks, or if it's what she eats.
In closing, I would like to point out that this is one of only 2 vampire romance series that I deliberately read, and for that matter, BBD and DH are the only vampire books I get on the basis of their being vampire books. Take that as you will.
Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward
Nov. 19th, 2007 11:23 pmLover Eternal is the second book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. As I posted on the first book just a few days ago, I won't get deeply into it(click the tag) but the short version is that they're like the Dark Hunter books, only to the Nth Degree, less emo and more badass. Oh, and I don't mind reading about these Mary Sues, while most of the DH ones drive me batty.
LE is about Rhage, the supermanslut brother has literally has a demon living inside him. He somewhat unwisely meets and falls in love with Mary(is there also a heroine named Sue? I DEMAND A HEROINE NAMED SUE!!!!) a pure young woman with cancer who works with young autistic children. I ask you, how do you get more angsty vampire romance than that?
I admit, like the first book, I'm not sure it was necessarily "good," though I think I'm closer to being able to say I liked it. Though, I still didn't care aboutthe romance. The main romance that is.
But then, about 3/4s through, Ward gave me Zsadist/Bella after briefly hinting at it early on. I. AM. IN. LOVE. I freely confess to spending most of there on out wishing that Rhage and Mary would angst over her leukemia and his demon somewhere else so it could be all about Zsadist and Bella. When i go for obsessive and messed up, I majorly go for seriously obsessive and seriously messed up. Because Zsadist? Think of Zarek from DH(BEST! CHARACTER! IN! SERIES!...except Ash...and it should be noted that the only DH romance I care about is Zarek/Astrid...all the other girls could die and I wouldn't mind...well, except Dangereuse, I kinda liked her...but a couple I'd rather have die), only 100 times more so. I honestly have no idea how to explain Zsadist/Bella right now, but I shall try in their book.
There's also John Matthew...I get a glimmer of why I'm going to be awed by and in love with him later, but right now I'm still rather "aww...mute kiddie soon-to-be-vampire from the streets with eoobie issues."
Also, on the name front, we have added Tohrture and Rehvenge, neither of whom we actually meet, but as Rehvenge is Bella seriously overprotective(by all accounts) brother, I'm sure he'll be all over Zsadist and Bella's book.
Oh, and in addition to having their True Love's name carved into their back at wedding ceremonies, the brothers apparently also mourn while kneeling naked on either shards of glass or sharp diamonds, I'm not sure it was confirmed which.
I wonder what's in the water Ward drinks, or if it's what she eats.
In closing, I would like to point out that this is one of only 2 vampire romance series that I deliberately read, and for that matter, BBD and DH are the only vampire books I get on the basis of their being vampire books. Take that as you will.