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noneko and cavortingmonkey...
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
I had three books piled on top of my monitor, so I picked the most entertaining quote of the three:
"I have your permission to come out?"
"Yup," I said, "For the purposes of this mission only. And don't waste time prowling around in women's locker rooms again."
Incidentally, the above quote comes from the book Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (it's the third book in the Dresden Files series). If you're a fan of the modern fantasy genre in the spirit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the first three non sucky Anita Blake books, I'd highly suggest checking the books in the Dresden Files out. It's a series about a wizard named Harry who lives in Chicago and kicks a ton of ass. It's kind of what the Anita Blake novels should have been. The main character is very entertaining, and the author does a good job integrating fantasy elements into modern day fiction.
Jim Butcher is like the anti-Laurel Hamilton. Everything that she does wrong in her books, he does right. Go read him. I'm currently re-reading the series, and it's just as good the second time through.
Also, for those of you too lazy to actually read the books, a series based on the books is coming out on the sci-fi channel in January 2007. If they do as good of a job on this series as they did on the new Battlestar Galactica, it's going to be awesome.
noneko and cavortingmonkey...1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
I had three books piled on top of my monitor, so I picked the most entertaining quote of the three:
"I have your permission to come out?"
"Yup," I said, "For the purposes of this mission only. And don't waste time prowling around in women's locker rooms again."
Incidentally, the above quote comes from the book Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (it's the third book in the Dresden Files series). If you're a fan of the modern fantasy genre in the spirit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the first three non sucky Anita Blake books, I'd highly suggest checking the books in the Dresden Files out. It's a series about a wizard named Harry who lives in Chicago and kicks a ton of ass. It's kind of what the Anita Blake novels should have been. The main character is very entertaining, and the author does a good job integrating fantasy elements into modern day fiction.
Jim Butcher is like the anti-Laurel Hamilton. Everything that she does wrong in her books, he does right. Go read him. I'm currently re-reading the series, and it's just as good the second time through.
Also, for those of you too lazy to actually read the books, a series based on the books is coming out on the sci-fi channel in January 2007. If they do as good of a job on this series as they did on the new Battlestar Galactica, it's going to be awesome.
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Oh yeah, that's a lot of the appeal for me too. I mean, I hate it when characters do stupid things and nothing happens (or worse, they get *rewarded* for their boneheaded behavior). That drives me crazy, so it's lovely to see stories that don't cop out like that.
I'm kind of disappointed that James Marsters isn't playing Harry in the series, but the dude they did pick looks decently close enough to the description of Harry in the novels. I really can't wait to see what they do with it.
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I mean, I hate it when characters do stupid things and nothing happens (or worse, they get *rewarded* for their boneheaded behavior).
Amen to that. It's why I stay away from most single-character series...eventually any pretense at logical consequences gets overwhelmed by the author's fondness for the character. (Or scary narcissistic identification with the character, if you're Laurell K. Hamilton.)
I'd love to see James Marsters as Harry, but that's mostly because I love his acting talent and would like to see him in just about anything. But having checked out the website, the guy they picked does look sufficiently Harry-ish for my tastes.