Tuesday, October 30, 2007

October '07

CHRONICLES OF THE CURSED SWORD #1
-Y. Beop-ryong-manwha
-168-this was crap. It was stupid and I won't be reading anymore.

ONE PIECE #15
-E. Oda- manga
-212

DAVID COPPERFIELD Part I
-C. Dickens-classic
-578-David is born, his father is dead, his mother a poor stupid woman. She remarries, David goes through many hardships, and ends up under the care of his great-Aunt. He makes many friends and we see how their lives go on. One particular friend, Steersforth, I am convinced will end up being the ruination of a childhood friend of David's. Nothing of his childhood hardships are gruesome, for which I am glad.

HUNTER X HUNTER #16
-Y. Togashi-manga
-192

ERIC
-T. Pratchett-fantasy
-197-Rhincewind is mistaken for a demon by a 14year old Demonologist. Hilarity ensues.

DAVID COPPERFIELD Part II
-C. Dickens-classic
-583-Copperfield grows up, marries Dora, rescues Mr W, has Dora die sees friends off to Australia, and ends up marrying Agnes. I really enjoyed this, enjoyed my wrong predictions, enjoyed how it all ended up.

REAPER MAN
-T. Pratchett-fantasy
-353-Death is given his walking papers by servants of Azrael, the Ultimante End. Chaos ensues and Ankh-Morpork is over run with Life force and a City Predator [a mall] begins to evolve. Death faces the New Death [and takes his old job back] and one Un-dead Wizard helps destroy the Mall. Several Laugh Out Loud moments.

YOTSUBA&! #4
-K. Azuma-manga
-190- Hilarious! I read this late one night and had to cover my mouth several times to stifle laugher so as not to disturb the neighbors.

STAR WARS: LEGACY OF THE FORCE: SACRIFICE
-K. Traviss-scifi
-367-Ben is sent on an assassination mission, grows up quick. He finds out that Lumiya and Jacen are in cahoots and Mara tracks down Jacen and tries to kill him. Mara dies, leaving clues for Ben and Luke about her true killer. Luke kills Lumiya. On the Mando side, Boba finds the clones who aren't aging and gets the treatment, finds precious metal on Mandolore and recalls all Mando's. At the very end he finds out his wife is not dead. Jacen becomes a Sith Lord, Darth Caedus.

SANDWORMS OF DUNE
-B. Herbert & K. Anderson-scifi
-494-The End of the Dune Saga! Lets see. Sandworms are modified to live in water. Facedancers plot to bring down Humanity AND Thinking Machines. Omnius and Erasmus are sweeping all before them. Norma Cenva, aka the Oracle of Time, aka the Guild Navigators 'god', is searching out for Omnius, to completely eradicate 'him'. The No-ship passengers are captured by Omnius. In the End of All, ie Krazilec, Oracle of Time removes Omnius; Duncan Idaho[who is the last and perfect Kwisatz Haderach] melds with Erasmus, much like Leto II did with sandworms, so that Humanity and Thinking Machines may live together instead of seeking mutual destruction; Erasmus activates a death code in the Facedancers and tells their leader he was aware of their plots the whole time; sandworms, with the Leto II ghola absorbed into them hence making them not so susceptible to water, make the homeworld of Omnius their new home. There is a lot. This is what happened. My thoughts on it are another whole matter. I think I'm going to write a post and put a link in here to it.
Thoughts on the Dune Saga

YOTSUBA&! #5
-K. Azuma-manga
-192

WITCHES ABROAD
-T. Pratchett-fantasy
-350-Magrat becomes a Fairy Godmother, for awhile, and with the 'support' of Nanny and Granny, goes head to head with the evil Godmother, who thinks that she is the good one.

THE ACT OF MARRIAGE
-T. & B. LaHaye-counsel
-393-a frank, indepth and educational book about sex. By Christians for Christians. It made me realize how much I didn't know or what I thought I knew was wrong.

FOR MEN ONLY
-S. & J. Feldhahn-counsel
-183-rather simplistic, but a good look for men on how the mind of a woman works. I'm just glad I am a guy :-)

FOR WOMEN ONLY
-S. Feldhahn-counsel
-184-I did a lot of underlining so Crystal knew what applied to me.

LORDS AND LADIES
-T. Pratchett-fantasy
-374-'bout time Magrat gets married. and Elves as the badguys and witches as the good guys, well, that is an interesting perspective.

CROWN OF THE ISLES: THE MIRROR OF WORLDS
-D. Drake-fantasy
-333-More of the same. I figure if I wait 3 years to read the final book [whenever it comes out], I should be able to make it through. Ilna's "hating of the world" just really wears thin really quick. AND, how did the world survive? It seems like there are super gods, or superbadpowerful men, or creatures, just lined up to the horizon to personally make the world hard for Garric and Co.

STARWARS: LEGACY OF THE FORCE: INFERNO
-T. Denning-fantasy
-312-Luke is shown for the Grand Master of the Jedi Council that he is. The Society of One Sith are revealed and pave the way for the Legacy Comics. I hope Caedus dies a slow painful death.