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Bored.

Yes, finally, my first 'I'm bored' post of the summer. Mostly because everybody that I usually talk to is busy or not online or whatever, and I'm trying to save the two books I checked out for my massively long trip on Thursday and Friday.

So...book recs? Music recs? Fic recs? And any good old-and-thus-cheap-used game recs? I'm bringing the PSOne with me to North Carolina, and I probably won't have any internet access, so I'm not going to have much else to do - bringing FF8 and FF9, although FF8 is really only getting played because people have sworn to me that there is in fact something resembling plot later, and Squall develops more personality than a rock, although I'm skeptical, which is why I haven't touched it since last summer.
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[identity profile] ext_70386 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)

Book recs- Across the Nightingale Floor, Last Herald Mage, Game of Thrones...I'm going to start Howl's Moving Castle soon.

Have you played Castlevania: Lament of Innocence? I enjoyed it, and I usually hate adventure/RPG type games. Can't beat Puzzle Fighter, either.

OH! Do you read P.L. Nunn's stuff? Her original fic Dynasty of Ghosts would actually be in my top five novels if it was a published work. 45 chapters, great characters and story. She doesn't edit her stuff, so she has grammar and spelling issues occasionaly (like mixing "prey" and "pray" up), but she knows how top weave a story and turn a phrase. Her Saiyuki, Weiss, and Ronin Warriors fic is pretty good, too.

I'm not sure what other fandoms you like to recommend fic, though...you know just as much as I do about X/TB fandom...

[identity profile] ext_93211 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-19 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello !!! My book recs: Anything by Mercedes Lackey is probably good... Oh and the Coldfire Trilogy by CS. Friedman is very good too.

[identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-19 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Books? Anything by Raymond E. Fiest or George R.R. Martin.

As for FF8... I do love that game so, but I often stop playing right at the end of the second disk, where both the plot and the characterization of the lead male do a complete 180 and it turns into a nauseatingly predictable romance complete with time travel.

[identity profile] ext_109827 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-19 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Read 'The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things' by JT LeRoy (something like that)

It's still my favorite.

[identity profile] ext_98268 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-19 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Fiction Books: (which you have probably read already) The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1984, The Inferno, Paradise Lost. (i'm reading PL right now and it's goooddd) If you want good fantasy try The Sword Of Truth series. It does get kind of suck around the 5th book, but the first three (arguably four) are really cool. If you want something completely different, try to read 120 Days Of Sodom or something else by the Marquis de Sade. (That's the only one i've read) It's strangely interesting.

Non-Fiction Books: On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, and Evil by Roy F. Baumeister. (Hey, I liked it!) Just do what I do and wander around B&N until you find something cool. Reference books can also be surprisingly interesting. If you can find it and are interesting in this sort of thing, you could try The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. (which isn't an occult book or anything) B&N also publishes a book called Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics by Chas S. Clifton that's kind of nifty.

Games: Probably doesn't for your trip help, but The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is like the best game I have ever played in my life. You can get it for PC and it should be pretty cheap.

Music Recs: Belle and Sebastian in general, Bad Religion in general ("The Empire Strikes First" in particular), Queens of the Stone Age's "Lullabies To Paralyze", Cake in general ("Comfort Eagle" in particular), Flogging Molly in general (though they are not for everyone, so get your feet wet before you commit to anything), and angst to Lisa Loeb.

Movie Recs: You didn't ask for them, but if you ever get bored and feel like going to Blockbuster... Secretary, because it is love. Latter Days. (< - hot gay Mormon alert!) Plata Quemada, since i'm pretty sure that your mom had mentioned she saw it, and if I am remembering correctly then she is the only person in the world who knows what I am talking about. (so you might be able to actually see it!) Umm...I'll say Snatch, but you've probably seen it, so go for 9 Dead Gay Guys. It's so the Gay!Snatch. Also, if you haven't seen it, check out Pi.

[identity profile] doctorskuld.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-19 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Book Recs: The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) should keep you for many a month if you decide to start it. Also see if you can find Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone series. They're out of print, but really worth your time. As is Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's The Death Gate Cycle.

Movie Recs: "Lola und Bilidikid" a great German movie about the dynamics of homosexuality, alpha males, and the disparity between the Germans and the Turkish minority there. One of my favorite films of all time.

[identity profile] ext_352147 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-06-21 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ok..I suck. I don't know any. I'm sorry. X(

How you doing lately, btw? I realy need to talk to you more. XD
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