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[geekchick]

More books!

21. Women and Money, Suze Orman. I kind of regret spending money on this. I know a lot of people really love her, but I found this a bit condescending (despite what Amazon says) and it didn't tell me anything that I haven't heard before. Meh.


22. The Woad to Wuin, Peter David. Yes, the jokes still continue even unto the book titles. B5 fans might be amused (or horrified) by my favorite joke in the series to date: the chapter involving an escape through the underground passages populated by the shadows of long-dead trolls ("Fuhgeddaboudit!") and across the Middle Finger into the Tragic Waste is called "In the Shadow of Ba'Da'Boom". <cue groaning> Really liked the first book in the series, like the anti-hero (but not as much as I did the first time around), still like the humor, but I thought the whole "Peacelord" segment really, really dragged. Let's see how the next book fares.


23. Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison/Dave McKean. chadu is not allowed to take me into comic stores anymore, because I am constitutionally unable to walk out without something in hand. Sunday, it was the snazzy 15th anniversary edition of this book, with the script and the commentary from Grant. I probably should not have read this on a gray, cold, rainy day when I'd not had enough sleep. Cheerful it ain't, unsurprisingly. I really appreciated having the script that I could refer to when I'd stare at a page and go "What just happened here?", and the commentary was a bonus. And no, I don't mean it about not being allowed to take me to comic stores.

And let's call it "number 23.5": "This is Not Viva Lars Vegas" (note before clicking that link: you are likely to stumble onto some NSFW images), which I found strangely entertaining. Um. Well, see, there's this giraffe-headed former fertility demi-god, and a remake of a movie about him that he's protesting, and an interviewer who wasn't even supposed to be here today really would be happier to not be back in Amsterdam reliving painful memories. Note: this may not be Viva Lars Vegas, but it is definitely not for the kiddies. I can't tell you exactly why I was so entertained by it, but I was. You can pick it up, if you want, over at IPR.

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[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

Curious: what did you find condescending about the Orman book? I've never read any of her books.

[geekchick]

I actually read this a while ago, but I remember being pretty annoyed by what seemed to me like a Stewart Smalley sort of "Gosh darn it, you're as capable as those men! *pat on the head*" tone. Well, yeah, I am--but that's not what I bought the book to find out. (I'll quote one of the Amazon reviews: "The first 1/4 of the book is basically Suze telling us in her psychoanalytic persona how wonderful and powerful women are and how we can really get ahead finally. I don't need 1/4 of her book telling me I'm good enough - enough Stuart Smalley. Just give me the real financial details."

I was hoping for less of the rah-rah cheerleading and more solid financial advice, I guess. Oprah gave away the PDF copy a couple months ago on her website, and I'd have been content to read it that way if I hadn't already bought it three weeks beforehand. =/ I hadn't read her stuff before and one of my coworkers really likes her, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Eh. Maybe her other books are better.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

I cannot amember: Did you take TiNLV with you?

SMOOCH

CU

[geekchick]

I did not. It should be sitting on your dining room table.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

FANGS.

Brain is full!

CU

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

i'm glad to see (hear?) that you enjoyed lars. it was a labor of love.