Meme time...

[prisoner_24601]

Stolen from 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.

Comments

[winterfox.livejournal.com]

I read and finished Storm Front, but I found it a bit underwhelming. I'm not very fond of the protagonist, Harry, and the whole thing was rather ho-hum. :/ I dunno, it's just that nearly every single urban fantasy seems to go the exact same direction: hardass, cynical protagonist is involved in crime-solving of some sort and fights against monsters/supernatural creatuers. (Elaine Cunningham's Changeling series, LKH's Anita Blake and Merry Gentry, the Dresden Files.) Alternatively, the protagonist is psychic and/or gifted with some sort of abilities and is dragged into supernatural fights between creatures of the night etc. (Sookie Stackhouse, some woman's Dark Hunter thing, Cassandra Claire's upcoming Mortal Instruments crap.)

[rimwalker.livejournal.com]

Good to know Sci Fi still plans on doing more, you know, sci-fi/fantasy stuff.

I saw a promo last week where Sci Fi will start showing pro wrestling some nights. I wanted to chuck the tv out the door.