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Aug. 25th, 2005 06:36 pmThank you all for your reading suggestions. Without a book, I took yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine section (there's no way I could justify taking today's at 7 AM) - the section with the comics and puzzles in the back. I got the crossword mostly done on the way in, but got stuck with a few things. I got the four jumble words on the way in, but coudn't get the pun until the return trip. On the return, I also worked on the cryptogram, but didn't get very far. This seems a perfectly good option for something to do, though I should also get a book.
Lest folks get carried away, I'm not terribly interested in fantasy things these days (I believe Wheel of Time and GRRMartin fall into this category, but I could be mistaken). I'm not sure when I really started to be, well, disenchanted, but the only fantasy I've felt compelled to read in the last several years was LotR (again) and associated works after the movie came out, the first few books of Earthsea (I liked the first two more than the third), the first Discworld book (no thanks), and Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster trilogy. Discworld just wasn't for me. I liked Earthsea because it was a pleasant change from high fantasy - the characters primarily were questing to understand themselves, not to do things in the world. I suspect this is why I didn't like the third one as much, as it felt like more questing rather than self-discovery. LotR doesn't fit this pattern, but is understandably good. The Riddlemaster, which I first read many years ago, has a decent amount of questing, but it's always motivated by one character or another trying to figure out what is going on. It's a reasonably quick read, but one of my favorites.
Lest folks get carried away, I'm not terribly interested in fantasy things these days (I believe Wheel of Time and GRRMartin fall into this category, but I could be mistaken). I'm not sure when I really started to be, well, disenchanted, but the only fantasy I've felt compelled to read in the last several years was LotR (again) and associated works after the movie came out, the first few books of Earthsea (I liked the first two more than the third), the first Discworld book (no thanks), and Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster trilogy. Discworld just wasn't for me. I liked Earthsea because it was a pleasant change from high fantasy - the characters primarily were questing to understand themselves, not to do things in the world. I suspect this is why I didn't like the third one as much, as it felt like more questing rather than self-discovery. LotR doesn't fit this pattern, but is understandably good. The Riddlemaster, which I first read many years ago, has a decent amount of questing, but it's always motivated by one character or another trying to figure out what is going on. It's a reasonably quick read, but one of my favorites.
