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You should check these out:
17 Sensational, Free and Downloadable Graphic Novels, including Fell, DMZ, Hellblazer. You NA regulars will already have read most of these, I'm sure, but still.
Damn Cool Pics: Sleevefaces: pictures of people posing with album covers in clever ways!
Belatedly, I finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods quite a while ago but forgot to post about it. It isn't fresh in my mind anymore, but I did enjoy the story. The ending wasn't exactly a let-down, but I wasn't completely satisfied by it either. I think it's because as much as I was interested in the story, and thought it was excellently researched and told, and took an unusual and interesting perspective, I wasn't all that emotionally invested in the character(s). Above all, I read for the characters. I've said before that I can enjoy a story with a "bad" plot but good characters, but it's more difficult (though not completely impossible) for me to get into one with a good plot, but boring or flat/undeveloped characters.
Shadow was certainly an interesting character, but he was definitely emotionally distanced from all that was going on. I also enjoy protagonists who are emotionally distant/cold (of which Carol O'Connell's Detective Kathy Mallory series is an excellently! written example), but then there has to be a secondary character who brings the emotional connection into the story, and American Gods just didn't have that. You know, I think I remember having a similar problem with Gaiman's Coraline.
I'm still making my way through Watchmen, and am also re-reading David Weber's Honor series (currently on book #3, The Short Victorious War). Upcoming books on my To-Be-Read list: Keturah and Lord Death, Drizzt trilogy (Forgotten Realms series), Life of Pi, Off Armageddon Reef.
17 Sensational, Free and Downloadable Graphic Novels, including Fell, DMZ, Hellblazer. You NA regulars will already have read most of these, I'm sure, but still.
Damn Cool Pics: Sleevefaces: pictures of people posing with album covers in clever ways!
Belatedly, I finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods quite a while ago but forgot to post about it. It isn't fresh in my mind anymore, but I did enjoy the story. The ending wasn't exactly a let-down, but I wasn't completely satisfied by it either. I think it's because as much as I was interested in the story, and thought it was excellently researched and told, and took an unusual and interesting perspective, I wasn't all that emotionally invested in the character(s). Above all, I read for the characters. I've said before that I can enjoy a story with a "bad" plot but good characters, but it's more difficult (though not completely impossible) for me to get into one with a good plot, but boring or flat/undeveloped characters.
Shadow was certainly an interesting character, but he was definitely emotionally distanced from all that was going on. I also enjoy protagonists who are emotionally distant/cold (of which Carol O'Connell's Detective Kathy Mallory series is an excellently! written example), but then there has to be a secondary character who brings the emotional connection into the story, and American Gods just didn't have that. You know, I think I remember having a similar problem with Gaiman's Coraline.
I'm still making my way through Watchmen, and am also re-reading David Weber's Honor series (currently on book #3, The Short Victorious War). Upcoming books on my To-Be-Read list: Keturah and Lord Death, Drizzt trilogy (Forgotten Realms series), Life of Pi, Off Armageddon Reef.
