Library Bike!

[changeling]

The library trip was awesome. My chain came off the sprogget-gear thing (cam?) halfway there, but I fixed it BECAUSE THAT IS THE FLAVOUR OF AWESOME THAT I AM. And although I am out of bike-fitness, the trip takes me 20 minutes one way, which is not to be sneezed at. I may try to cycle there once a week while I'm scantily employed.

Here's what I borrowed, because it amuses me:

• Exploring the world of the pharaohs;
• The adventure of English : 500AD to 2000, the biography of a language, Melvin Bragg;
• Just a pilgrim, Graphic novel. Some sort of apocalyptic futureworld by Garth Ennis that seems similar to Preacher;
• Living dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris. Seems to be one of those horror/chicklit books that are so popular right now;
• Shakespeare's trollop, Charlaine Harris. Murder mystery, by same. I fear it will suck, because my hitrate with "cute" American crime fiction is not high;
• Lost Christianities : the battles for scripture and the faiths we never knew;
• Seeds, Thomas Merton
• Death on the Nile, the original one with Mia Effin' Farrow. Also Peter Ustinov, Davin Niven and Maggie Smith, all of whom are pure awesome. Olivia Hussey is cute.

Comments

[mauvedragon.livejournal.com]

I read Living dead in Dallas on the recomendation of an ex-gf. Your description is about right.

[seeksadventure.livejournal.com]

I read the Charlaine Harris horror/chicklit set (starting with Dead Until Dark, and Living Dead in Dallas is a part of it) and enjoyed the earlier books a lot more than I expected. Then I gave Shakespeare's Trollop a try, and hated, hated, hated the main character's judgment against other women and the presentation of sexuality in women and oh, just thinking about it makes me angry all over again.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know Living Dead in Dallas is not the first, but it was the only one the library had. Plus I'm not expecting it to be anything more than really light reading, so I'm not too stressed.

Sounds not-good.

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

I hated Dead Until Dark (part one of Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series). Hate hate HATE. I have never read anything else by the woman, but would encourage anyone to steer clear of her because...ugh. The cutesy naive heroine, the weird double-standards about sex (there's a lot of judgement going on about the sexuality of other female characters), the bizarrely unrealistic sex scenes...just...ugh.

I actually really like light horror/romance books, even (or perhaps especially) the spectacularly cheesy over-the-top ones. But there was a weird nasty undercurrent to this one that I just didn't like. It made me feel dirty.

But...uh...feel free to form your own opinions ;)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I suspect I am going to dislike this woman's work. I've just begun "Shakespeare's Trollop".

The story so far: A woman with lots of lovers is murdered. It's totally her fault, but I'm not going to admit that I think that. I'm just going to harp on it for multiple pages.