Reading, game, Berg, JR

[skreidle]

Read about 70 pages of Wizard and Glass (book 4 of King's Dark Tower series) before realizing that I might just want to go back and read books 1-3 again first, since I read those over 13 years ago, I only remember the scantiest details, and the prologue's recap only helped a little.. I just feel like I'm missing out on too much of the story.

Innnteresting little game from sylvie, Tontie--it's like Whack-a-Mole, only with a lot more variation and it gets a lot more difficult. Don't even try it if you don't have a numeric keypad. :)

From K5 via gingerdc9: Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalies. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I'm definitely cynical when it comes to politics and the media, and this is definitely food for thought..

Joe Rocket's customer service was very fast and very helpful today. Rather than return my new jacket to the store for warranty service to replace one of the snaps, I emailed them asking if I could just get replacement snaps instead--and not only did they reply within an hour and agree to it, they offered to reimburse tailor fees with a submitted receipt if I had to have a tailor attach it!

Comments

[sylvie.livejournal.com]

I don't have a real numeric keypad, what with having a laptop and all. But then, I also haven't been able to get past level 9

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I lose as soon as the little hit-relocating huts show up, and I wouldn't make it to level 2 without a numeric keypad--though most laptops do have a num keypad ability built into the keyboard as a special function.

[sylvie.livejournal.com]

i have that, but it's kindof a pain to use because it's slanty and not freestanding and whatnot

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

True, but as long as you can go by position and not number, it's still better than the line of keys, IMO.

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

Go back and read 1-3 because they're so much better, not because you need it for 4, 4 is mainly back story...waited seven more years for them to get somewhere ;)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

That may well be, but my reason is to prepare for my reading of 4 and 5--I'm just not familiar enough with the content of 1-3 (that I read oh so long ago) to feel comfortable jumping into 4.


In other news, I liked Bag of Bones. :)

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

BoB is a good one.
I read 1-4 in a few months because I was given 1-3 for Christmas the year 4 came out. 6 comes out in a few weeks!
I didn't like 4 as much because while I don't mind some backstory woven in, I didn't like it being all backstory.
What prompted the return to the world of King?

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Chance--picked it off the shelf out of many books that I own unread.

At 70 pages in with a limited memory of 1-3, I don't see it as being entirely backstory, but I might be in little position to judge that, and I think I'll be putting it aside until I read 1-3 again--which may be soon if I borrow 'em from my dad and don't get distracted by other books, else it could be far in the future. :)

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

beginning is when they're on blaine, but after that pure back story 'til the very end
and yes, books are wayy too distracting

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Well, I've managed to read about half a book a day on average at work lately.. good distraction. ;)

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

sweet situation
Im currently reading about five books, well no, four and a magazine.
And I wonder why I don't finish any one...

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I almost never read more than one book at a time, and never more than two. If I start reading another it's either out of necessity or because I've totally lost interest in the first, which is a rarity.

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

mine tends to come as a result of I'm in place a, book I was reading is in place b, and I want to read while in a...

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Well, depending on the duration in Place A, I'd probably just read nothing in the interim--but if I did pick something else up, I'd still only be reading two books. :)

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

but you know the times where you just want to read something, and more than the back of the cereal box or something...
I tend to do it in several places--currently at home, at the parents, at work (2 there because someone borrowed the book I'd started) and curves

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I'm never at my parents' for more than a day, I carry a book between work and home (and if I went to the gym, same story), and I wouldn't le someone borrow a book I was in the middle of reading.

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

allowing it doesn't enter the picture when someone borrows it while Im not there to stop them.

Added another magazine to the reading pile when not having something struck again at the parents

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I believe that's called "theft" unless there's some sort of pre-arrangement. :P


I wouldn't add a magazine to the pile in that scenario, though I might skim it while I was there, and leave it there when I left..

[skinglist.livejournal.com]

nah it was innocent, as in they didn't think I'd be back for it.
Things have a way of seemingly following me