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Jan. 23rd, 2007 | 08:52 pm
Watching the State of the Union address.
Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi sitting side-by-side, both of whom have the grimly solemn expressions of people who just realized eating the entire plate of Chili Cheese Fries (with Extra Salsa) was so not a good idea.
That has got to be awkward.
-JM
Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi sitting side-by-side, both of whom have the grimly solemn expressions of people who just realized eating the entire plate of Chili Cheese Fries (with Extra Salsa) was so not a good idea.
That has got to be awkward.
-JM
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3 Books Read in 2007
Jan. 23rd, 2007 | 11:11 pm
Read books number 2 and 3 for 2007 last week, “Shadowbred” by Paul S. Kemp and “Grave Peril” by Jim Dresden. So let’s have us some mini-reviews!
Shadowbred resumes the story of Erevis Cale, priest and Chosen of the scheming god Mask. The end of the last book left Cale pretty torn up, having lost both his best friend and his humanity with his accidental transformation into a shade (a human infused with shadow-magic, granting virtual immortality). Still struggling with the trauma of the previous three books, Cale has no wish to involve himself in the affairs of the mighty any longer.
Of course, he has little choice in the matter. His homeland of Sembia is about to fall into civil war, a civil war engineered by a ruthless noblewoman to facilitate her rise to absolute power. Unbeknownst to her, the previous Sembian ruler was murdered by immortal wizards from a remnant of an ancient magical empire, who plan to rebuild their empire with Sembia as the first province. Meanwhile, a secret cult devoted to a goddess of loss and entropy plans to use both the wizards and the civil war to summon something called the “Shadowstorm”, which doesn’t sound quite like a day at the park.
Many shadows are falling over Sembia. But what stands behind them?
Shadowbred was a splendid good read. But enough with the cliffhangers already!
Grave Peril is the third book about Harry Dresden, the hapless wizard/private investigator. This time, some dark force has driven all the ghosts of Chicago insane, driving them on murderous rampages. It’s up to Dresden to stop them, aided by a righteous Knight wielding a sword forged from one of the nails on the True Cross. (Needless to say, the Forces of Evil find this sword somewhat deleterious.)
Dresden tends to have a rough time in these books, I’ve noticed, and Grave Peril is no exceptions. He gets the tar beaten out of him (both telekinetically and with fists), enslaved by a malicious faerie, poisoned, imprisoned, nearly driven insane, and has part of his soul stolen away. And this is all before he has to face down a pack of homicidal vampires and a dark wizard while wearing nothing but a pair of (borrowed) boxer shorts.
I think Grave Peril was the best of the Dresden books so far. Highly tense, and a downright nightmarish Big Bad.
-JM
Shadowbred resumes the story of Erevis Cale, priest and Chosen of the scheming god Mask. The end of the last book left Cale pretty torn up, having lost both his best friend and his humanity with his accidental transformation into a shade (a human infused with shadow-magic, granting virtual immortality). Still struggling with the trauma of the previous three books, Cale has no wish to involve himself in the affairs of the mighty any longer.
Of course, he has little choice in the matter. His homeland of Sembia is about to fall into civil war, a civil war engineered by a ruthless noblewoman to facilitate her rise to absolute power. Unbeknownst to her, the previous Sembian ruler was murdered by immortal wizards from a remnant of an ancient magical empire, who plan to rebuild their empire with Sembia as the first province. Meanwhile, a secret cult devoted to a goddess of loss and entropy plans to use both the wizards and the civil war to summon something called the “Shadowstorm”, which doesn’t sound quite like a day at the park.
Many shadows are falling over Sembia. But what stands behind them?
Shadowbred was a splendid good read. But enough with the cliffhangers already!
Grave Peril is the third book about Harry Dresden, the hapless wizard/private investigator. This time, some dark force has driven all the ghosts of Chicago insane, driving them on murderous rampages. It’s up to Dresden to stop them, aided by a righteous Knight wielding a sword forged from one of the nails on the True Cross. (Needless to say, the Forces of Evil find this sword somewhat deleterious.)
Dresden tends to have a rough time in these books, I’ve noticed, and Grave Peril is no exceptions. He gets the tar beaten out of him (both telekinetically and with fists), enslaved by a malicious faerie, poisoned, imprisoned, nearly driven insane, and has part of his soul stolen away. And this is all before he has to face down a pack of homicidal vampires and a dark wizard while wearing nothing but a pair of (borrowed) boxer shorts.
I think Grave Peril was the best of the Dresden books so far. Highly tense, and a downright nightmarish Big Bad.
-JM