Apr. 24th, 2012

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Vulture Ranks All 62 Stephen King Books (Worst to Best). I'm not sure what Vulture is, and I disagree strongly with some of their ordering, but it was nice to see a list of his books with short summaries. I knew I had read a lot of his books, but I hadn't realize I've read nearly them all. I skipped all the baseball books (three total?) other than The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Let's see. I haven't read:
Blaze (hadn't even heard of it before this list!)
Blockade Billy (baseball)
The Colorado Kid (never heard of it)
Christine (I should get to this one)
Firestarter (another old one I should get to)
The Running Man (I heard it was meh, so avoided it)
Faithful (baseball)
Thinner (old, I should read it)
11/22/63 (new book I haven't gotten to yet)
The Shining (I might have read this as a kid, but I really should reread it)

So that's seven non-baseball ones I missed, and two baseball ones I have no interest in. Not bad, out of 62 books!

One of the biggest ones I disagree with is The Long Walk. They rank it as #47, but it would easily be in the top five of my list. The only monsters in it were of the human sort. It haunted me for days after I finished reading it.

Unfortunately my reading has slowed to a crawl, even though I'm reading (rereading) a good book: The Pride of Chanur. I picked up a new game (Ice Age Village), and since the app runs on my ipad, it's a choice of reading or playing. Playing usually wins. :/
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I started reading this web comic a while back. The first few pages were interesting, then it turned bad. Really bad. I started following it for the "quality" of the dialog. This week's page takes the cake for a whole different reason.

WARNING: VERY VERY NOT WORK SAFE. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK IF YOU ARE AT WORK. VERY GRAPHIC NWS IMAGES. We joke about bad armor a lot, how on female models it leaves the most important areas unprotected. This armor takes the cake! (Again, very very NWS.)

How exactly does that-- er those, stay on? Suction cups?

Also, I want to know what happened to the storyline in the first couple pages. Bait and switch! I though I was getting some kind of a Norse/werewolf comic, but instead it turned into a bad porn movie.

And now I shall go to bed, like a responsible adult. How could I be exhausted the entire day, then when bedtime comes it's suddenly 'AWAKE AWAKE I WANT TO STAY UP!'?

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