Percy Jackson, Absolutely True Diary, Dragon Age

[subsidaryforge]

So I spent my first day of break reading my butt off. I read plenty of academic crap, but Hunger Games and Catching Fire are seriously just about the only YA fiction I've read in a long while. Well. Okay, and Compound, but I keep wiping that from my mind. I have intended to go with "popular, at least around here" over "something I actually want to

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[subsidaryforge]

I will look Patrick up!

As for pop literature being alluring, well, I guess that's the whole point of pop literature. You get a marketing machine behind a title and everyone knows about it and everyone's reading it and telling other people to read it if only for the communal experience. If it's any good, we'll be reading it ten years from now, but a lot of the flash that comes out is just that, flash.

[asathena]

I SECOND PATRICK ROTHFLUSS

INTO ETERNITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

onnghh his book's so GOOD.

[subsidaryforge]

Yeah, I'd heard he was writing it for his kid and while that's great, I can't help comparing it to the other book I just read on that front, too. Part-time Diary has little comics and illustrations scattered through the story, fewer words per page, shorter chapters. The vocabulary isn't kiddie, but it is very accessible. At the very least, a distractable kid might flip through for the funny pictures and get rooted into the story that way. Fast-paced and funny can still be very high quality. And I might compare Red Pyramid. I am less concerned with consistency with mythology as consistency and sense-making within the world. And, okay, not screwing over the goddesses as much. Um

[cavni]

Gaming Dragon Age for character is my favorite way to play. I've been slowly ticking through a second playthrough for a few weeks now, trying to see how well I can pull off a pushover/reluctant hero who says "Oh God, no, no, I can't possibly help you" at every turn. When it works, it changes the personalities of the characters around you. (Duncan had to be a complete bully to my elf to get her to do anything, and Alistair applies more peer pressure than a teenage girl.) When it doesn't work, I just sit back and listen to the whooshing sound as cheap XP goes flying by.

[asathena]

My favorite part of Percy Jackson is Hades flippin' that shield into the air and having it come down as a bulletproof vest on his huge hairy biker self.

At the saime time, I am personally offended by the idea of Athena siring (....female equivalent? "birthing" just doesn't have the right ring to it) anybody. THERE ARE ONLY 3 VIRGIN GODDESSES IN THE PANTHEON. LEAVE THEM ALONE.

[asathena]

NOT HADES SORRY I MEANT ARES

ALSO I MEANT TO SPELL THAT WORD 'SAME'

[subsidaryforge]

I liked Ares better than just about anything else, too. BUT YEAH. STOP DEVIRGINIZING OUR VIRGIN GODDESSES.