11th September, 2009
Gazpacho
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.
I freely admit that I was anxiously awaiting the release of Joe Abercrombie’s fourth book. I mean, after noting how BOWEL-LOOSENINGLY EPIC the First Law trilogy was, how could you not get all hot and bothered while waiting for his next book?
Sadly, I’m hear today to say that Best Served Cold really wasn’t all that. Maybe I wanted to place it on too high of a pedestal, but I found the book overly bleak and dripping with bitter cynicism. Gone was most of the clever wit and dark humor that Abercrombie successfully used to temper his last three works. Instead, we are presented with a very grim, dark tale full of puffed-out cheeks and stoved-in steel (believe me, with the number of times he repeated these phrases, I felt like I was reading a Robert Jordan novel). Still, the book wasn’t completely horrible. There were a few bright spots and it did add a little to the tale of the Illuminati who seem to be running the world. It also featured an ending which, while not the best, was quite fitting for the story it completed.
3/5 gogs.
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10th September, 2009
You Lie!
So, last night’s address on healthcare reform by the President seemed like a reasonable first step in what will most likely be a long battle to reign in the skyrocketing costs of healthcare in this country. Of course, there are some who are still irrationally opposed to such measures, such as crackpot South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson who interrupted Obama’s speech to accuse him of lying (with the delicious irony of course being that it was Wilson who was lying, not Obama). Politics as usual, I suppose.
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1st September, 2009
Comin’ to the rescue!
Anthony Bourdain on children’s TV shows:
All parents must, sooner or later, come to terms with DORA THE EXPLORER and her alleged “cousin”, DIEGO. I’ve always found their relationship suspicious at best. And who is this kid, Diego, anyway? Where are his parents? How does he get to run around unsupervised in the jungle? And isn’t he too young to have a driver’s license?
If there’s one thing that Dora has taught me, it’s that you can remember anything if you repeat it three times outloud. Now, let’s march in place. March in place. March in place! >.>
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