Feb. 16th, 2014

thistlechaser: (Book with cat: Litterbox)
In semi-reverse order of the subject line:

My new icons are done, yay! Both for awful books. The one used on this post is a cat burying a book in the litterbox, and I also have a smaller version of:


So cute! Both are the result of [livejournal.com profile] djinni's icon days.

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I've seen two new movies in the last 48 hours. Adding them to Thor yesterday and I think I've seen the most movies I ever have in such a short time.

Ender's Game: I was prepared to hate it. I had heard from a number of people that it was an awful movie (the movie itself, not the problems with the book's author). I saw some issues with it, but mostly it was entertaining. I wish it had ended a few minutes earlier... If the story had ended with the horror of the kids realizing they had really destroyed a planet/whole species, that would have been a great ending. The whole Captain Ender And Alien Queen Go On Space Adventures didn't work for me.

Catching Fire: Wow. Just wow. What an amazing movie. I think I've been more emotional since my hospital stay, but man, I teared up so many times during it. Just the crowds holding up three fingers was enough to get me going. The one small quibble I had was how old the actors playing the "kids" were -- Katniss was supposed to be 17, but she looked like an adult. I know, perils of translating things to the big screen, but it threw me a number of times. Everything else was amazingly great. I had heard how good Lenny Kravitz was as Cinna, but that turned out to be an understatement.

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I know I said I would have no more book reviews for a while, but I had agreed to review this one a while back and it was slow getting to me, so I forgot I had requested it.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift Part 1 by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
(Book received free for review from Dark Horse.)
Rating: 5/loved (1-5/hated-loved)

Wow. The art was dead-on perfect. Best art I've seen in all the graphic novels I've reviewed so far. Exactly like the show!

The first part of a trilogy, The Rift tells the story of the damage a refinery jointly owned Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom is doing to a once sacred Airbender land.

Everything from the show was here: Great art, good story, and humor (the gags in the backgrounds were great!). Recommended!

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