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And several beers.

Yeah, I'm about a week late on this one, but SO WAT.  Lemme tell yous guys what I thought.  

( Spoilers, obviously. )

Hugh Jackman looked very much more like Wolverine in this than I think he did in any of the X-Men movies.  Age has allowed him to bulk up rather nicely.  He was definitely too slender in the early X-Men movies to sell it.  Plus, he has much better hair now.  None of that iffy attempt to give him the comic book Wolverine...hair...ridge...thing.  But those muttonchops need to make a fashion comeback, guys. 

(  tl;dr version: hugh jackman is hot but the movie...not so much. Mild spoilers included. )

Or, bookish post!  Where I blog about books!  Books I've actually read! 

In order to recover from the woe-riffic emotional BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) I suffered this week, I lost myself in a couple of books that I had started reading eons ago and forgot to finish.  The first is called Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer. 

( An epic mashup of Neanderthals and Causality! )

Also, I read James Blish's Spock Must Die (1970), the first-ever original Star Trek novel published.  ( *puts on beta hat and ranty pants* )

But getting back to the title of this post, I've now started reading The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned (1989), by the one-and-only Anne Rice (or, She-Who-Writes-Fangirl-Bait-and-Then-Forbids-Them-to-Write-Fanfic).  I've never read any of her other works (but Interview with a Vampire was a cool movie), and the vampire thing is getting so overplayed lately that I was eager to sink my teeth into a different kind of Undead-Guy tale. 

It's a 400-pager of which I am 70 pages in, and I don't know if I'm going to make it, you guys.  I can't tell if Rice is deliberately trying to be pulpy and cliche, or if she's just not that good of a writer (I suspect a bit of both), because the mummy is barely out of his wrappings (quite literally) and already the lead heroine is swooning over Teh Hawtness and Teh Sexxy that is Ramses the Damned.  And that line in the title is a direct quote, from page 69, and I just had to share it because it's lolarious.  

Any bookish thoughts about these selected books, or any suggestions for my reading list would be tremendously welcome!

A few months ago, I started collecting and reading the Legacy of the Force, a 9-book series written variously by three authors, and starring the now all-growed-up Solo Twins.  I started reading it because I had heard people say that it was a good story.  Well, those people lied.  And as much as I'd like to become Ranty McRanty-pants about why, I found a review of the series that pretty much sums up everything I wanted to say (There are spoilers; though I don't like to call them that because it implies I actually cared about what happened in the story.  Frankly, I don't even think the authors did) .  Although I'm only a third of the way through the sixth book, Inferno, I'm finished with the series.  It pains me to see the Galaxy Far, Far Away reduced to this kind of recycled drivel. 

On the up side, I discovered that Timothy Zahn wrote a Thrawn duology, so I'm looking forward to tackling those, next. 

Also, if you haven't played Lego Star Wars, you MUST.   

Meh. 



But Moff, I have certain expectations from you, and this time, you rather failed.  Which isn't a terrible thing.  I'd have started getting suspicious that you were some kind of Script God or android if you didn't pen a mediocre episode now and then. 

Yikes, two posts in one day!  Can you tell I have just graduated from school, quit my job and spent my whole day playing around on the internet?

I figured, "so, heck, why not do a reaction post, too?"  Just about everybody else has. 

What do mean, "lemming?"  And no, I have no intention of running off a cliff.  That'd just be silly. 


I think that's mostly it.  Not great, but not a complete waste.  I've been reading a lot of very disappointed reaction posts lately, so I'd just like to point out that I've always loved Doctor Who not so much for what it is, but for what it could be.  I think Rusty and Co. made a huge mistake by making the Doctor/Companion relationship romantic, and it's clear Rusty is running out of original ideas.  But this is a show that has change and renewal built into its format.  Experimentation is good.  It doesn't always succeed, but you're sure to get crummy, stale product if you don't try in the first place. 

Finished it!  Bam!  Haha!

And managed it spoiler-free, too! 

Crack.  That's what it was.  Total crack.  Whatever RTD was on when he wrote this, he evidently slipped some to John Simm before each take.  I was inches away from literally slapping my hands over my ears and going "Lalalalalalalala!"  at the whole thing.  Yet, like driving past a terrible roadside accident, I couldn't tear my eyes away from it.