What I'm reading/watching.

[serene]

stonebender asked what I'm reading. The nice thing is that I *am* reading. I had no time for such diversions when I was working retail. Now, whee, I have time to read, and even to see movies once in a while.

What I'm reading:

Fat!So?
The Golden Compass
Flim-Flam!
Red Mars
The latest issue of the Skeptical Enquirer

Good (fsvo "good" that includes "cheesy but fun") movies I've watched lately:

Spinal Tap
Buckaroo Banzai
Goblet of Fire
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Bad movies I've watched lately:

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Thunderbirds

And we have this one on tap:

On Edge (a skating mockumentary)

Oh, and I saw this play with stonebender:

Marius

Wow. That's more veg-out time than I've taken in months.

Comments

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

I thought that the first two books were quite amazing, and I'm not much of a reader myself. As a whole series, I thought it fell short of Narnia in the category of parareligious young adult fiction, but if someone grokked the ending on a personal level I could see how they might feel that it was the better epic.

[nmc.livejournal.com]

I'm probably not the target audience for this group of comments, not being into the parareligious stuff, but as an aside, the ending of TGC swung me the other way. I really liked the books until the last couple chapters. After which, I disliked them intensely and retroactively.

Actually, the same goes for most (all but one?) of the Pullman books I've read.