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We finished S1 of the Wire. It was, as promised, extremely good. McNulty grew on me, as it became clear that everyone knew what an asshole he was, including him. Freamon was, as promised, awesome, but I must say that he was a pretty smooth operator -- getting back into Homicide and getting together with what's-her-name, the hot chick. I love the politics, and how everyone is more than a little dirty.
I really love the fact that they continue to use material from the book, Homicide.
Poor Wallace. Even if he was, as BH says, a bear of very little brain in many ways. And is it bizarre that I'm wondering whether Stringer Bell will make sure that someone feeds Wee Bay's fish? Even though Wee Bay isn't getting out of jail any time soon, apparently, so he'll never know.
I really liked it, and will have to look into acquiring the rest of it.
I'm also in the process of catching up with Heroes, which I tended to watch rather sporadically last year; BH likes it, and wants to see it all, though, so we're watching it.
Recently read:
Neil Gaiman, Stardust. I probably would not have liked the movie so much if I had read this before seeing it. Also, Neil Gaiman really, really hates endings.
William Gibson, Spook Country. Very good, but oddly insubstantial. I liked it a great deal, depsite that, and maybe the insubstantiality was kind of the point.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splended Suns. At first, very like a Catherine Cookson novel, but set in Afghanistan. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and it did make me cry, but it was very like a Catherine Cookson novel, and thus felt like a great indulgence.
Recently acquired:
A new bookscase (I have room for all my books now! huzzah!)
A new mattress and box-spring, which arrived yesterday and were the cause of much consternation, in the end, even though this was something I both needed and wanted. It's just that changing your bed in such a permanent fashion is a big change, even if your old mattresses were old and mushy.
And next week, the term starts rolling.
I really love the fact that they continue to use material from the book, Homicide.
Poor Wallace. Even if he was, as BH says, a bear of very little brain in many ways. And is it bizarre that I'm wondering whether Stringer Bell will make sure that someone feeds Wee Bay's fish? Even though Wee Bay isn't getting out of jail any time soon, apparently, so he'll never know.
I really liked it, and will have to look into acquiring the rest of it.
I'm also in the process of catching up with Heroes, which I tended to watch rather sporadically last year; BH likes it, and wants to see it all, though, so we're watching it.
Recently read:
Neil Gaiman, Stardust. I probably would not have liked the movie so much if I had read this before seeing it. Also, Neil Gaiman really, really hates endings.
William Gibson, Spook Country. Very good, but oddly insubstantial. I liked it a great deal, depsite that, and maybe the insubstantiality was kind of the point.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splended Suns. At first, very like a Catherine Cookson novel, but set in Afghanistan. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and it did make me cry, but it was very like a Catherine Cookson novel, and thus felt like a great indulgence.
Recently acquired:
A new bookscase (I have room for all my books now! huzzah!)
A new mattress and box-spring, which arrived yesterday and were the cause of much consternation, in the end, even though this was something I both needed and wanted. It's just that changing your bed in such a permanent fashion is a big change, even if your old mattresses were old and mushy.
And next week, the term starts rolling.
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