I bought Wicked at Borders. I wasn’t going to but word of mouth in the bookstore got to me and I did. I read the prologue before coming back to the office. It was enticing if you were into the whole Wizard of Oz thing when you were a kid. Which I was. In fact, I had played a munchkin in a Wizard of Oz play back in the 3rd or 4th grade.
Wicked is a different take on the toons of Wizard of Oz. Supposedly discusses how does someone become so evil (like the wicked witch of the west) and if they’re really born that way. Or so said the guy in the bookstore while he was talking to a lady who was staring at the book. And yes, I was eavesdropping. The play captures the concept of the book but reading the actual book supposedly really gets into the author’s main ideas.
Lately I’ve been playing a lot of World of Warcraft. I’ve been playing my druid and healing or doing bad dps in pugged raids. However you look at it, healing is more my thing than dps is. Let’s face it, I just don’t tear faces as good as some other players do. If I’m roled in as dps and a healer wants to switch roles, go for it.
Aside from games, I’ve been reading. Finishing up the last few pages on The Resurrected Man. I would have been done with this already, but with WoW, work, and spending time with friends and family, sometimes I rather sleep on my train ride home than read a book. Or I rather let the boyfriend get his shut eye instead of getting a bit of reading done.
However, the book is pretty fantastic. If you like high sci-fi combined with a bit of mystery, then this would be one for you. I’m oddly surprised as I didn’t think of myself as having a big interest in sci-fi to begin with.
I started reading The Resurrected Man by Sean Williams. I was skeptical but I also got it at a used book store. I sat down over the weekend and started reading. I was surprised when I found myself engrossed in the story and when I went from page 1 to 100 in half hour because a) not really my type of book and b) I was really skeptical about liking it.
However, it earns an A+ in my book so far. :)
A few weeks ago, I finished reading The Outlanders. It started out slow but picked up pace once the story got going and she actually went back in time. However, after 500 pages of overdone romance and sex and all that, I was getting a bit tired of it. I guess it may be the fact that I’m not one for time-traveling romance. Let alone the justification of the main character for her infidelity. Marriage is marriage. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a different time zone or anything, the vows are “till death do us part” not “till time travel do us part.” Other than that, the book kept me interested enough till the end but I probably won’t be continuing with the series. It probably wouldn’t be as bad if the story didn’t justify her infidelity and if she felt a bit remorseful for cheating rather than saying “Well I may never get back there. I love Frank but Jamie is too hot for me to resist.”
Am definitely enjoying The Picture of Dorian Gray. I read for most of my lunch break and gobbled down the last bits of my soup before coming back to the office. I asked S (coworker) if he’s ever read it and he said he has and enjoyed it. So I think I’ll be enjoying it too. So far, that has been the case.
Steadily consuming 2 chapters a night. Sometimes 3. It’s been a while since I’ve been this into a book… like to the point where I read instead of falling asleep on BART. I find it concise without any lengthy endless descriptions. I like all the dialogs going on and a moderate pace for the story. And the chapters are a reasonable length.
I am also liking that Oscar Wilde doesn’t go off in tangents trying to justify everything. The story is how it is. There is no “Oh let me tell you about this.”
However, with all due respect and no offense intended, it does have.. a homosexual vibe between all the gentlemen in the book even though I have learned that none of the men are actually gay. The little bit I actually read about the author makes this less surprising. I was surprised later in the book to learn that Lord Henry has a wife.
Still a good book, no less.
I started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray this morning and I must admit, I love the language that Oscar Wilde uses. The book is very quotable, easy to understand, and if there’s an initial expectation for this book, is to keep the story concise. More and more books I feel are bloated with too many words where it’s becoming dragged on. Here is to the hope that this book is not one of those.
I may post a review when I’m done reading it.
Other books I bought this weekend include
1. Moby Dick
2. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
3. War and Peace
I bought Wicked at Borders. I wasn’t going to but word of mouth in the bookstore got to me and I did. I read the prologue before coming back to the office. It was enticing if you were into the whole Wizard of Oz thing when you were a kid. Which I was. In fact, I had played a munchkin in a Wizard of Oz play back in the 3rd or 4th grade.
