The Life and Times...

Well, I finished Good Omens last week. Did a mad rush to finish the last 150 pages or so one night and read til after midnight. It was definitely a fascinating read. Good points and good use of actual theology to bring the point across and hammer home the lesson. I still don't understand how 2 people can write a book together, but it worked for them!





Saw Terminator 4 this weekend. I hate to say it, but the best parts of this movie were definitely in the trailer. The "big reveal" about Marcus Wright was in the trailers, so that wasn't too much of a surprise. As I like to say: I couldn't see the plot for all the holes. I told my wife that Hollywood really needs to start hiring guys whose sole job is to read scripts and look for plot holes. Her response was that no one out there cares. She's probably on the money.

I think if you've never seen a Terminator film and you're not that big of a fan, you'll probably enjoy the movie. But if you are a fan and no the in's and out's of the series you'll probably have as much of a problem with it as I do. I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't seen the movie but you do have to wonder how Skynet knew enough to care about Kyle Reese and John Connor in the first place considering this is the Skynet of the future, but not far enough in the future to have sent back the other Terminators in the first place. And Skynet never had a clue about Kyle Reese before. Makes you think....

Oh well! Summer blockbusters are only going 30% on the goodness scale right now. Star Trek is the only one that did it for me. Here's hoping that Transformers 2 delivers on the promise of its trailers!

Really stupid work!

Finished The Man with the Golden Torc last week. It was definitely very enjoyable. It hinted at the Nightside books but went very above and beyond. Once I finish my current TBR I'm definitely going back and reading the sequel and I'm pretty sure book 3 comes out in June so I'll be on top of it!

Currently about a quarter of the way through Good Omens. I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not. I'm about 50/50 on Neil Gaiman. Some of his stuff I really like (American Gods) and some I couldn't even get through (Graveyard Book). Never ready any Terry Pratchett altho I've always heard good things about Discworld. I may have to add it to my TBR just to see. Anyway, I'm really liking Good Omens so far. Just the right amount of humor mixed in with the end of the world. Can't go wrong there.

Finished TPZ: Trailer Park Zombies, last week! yay! Total word count ended up being about 83K words, about 262 pages. Now I just need to let it sit for a little bit while I do my day job and then go back and edit it and see if I can sell it. Stay tuned!

Stupid Work!

Not too much going on in my neck of the woods. My day job is tearing my schedule up. Only got about 9K words done last week. The plus is that I should be able to finish it this week one way or the other. I think I'm within 20 pages of being done.

Read books 2, 3, and 4 in Jeanne Stein's Anna Strong novels. Pretty good reads!



Started The Man With The Golden Torc by Simon Green last night. There are definite hints of his Nightside series so far, but it appears to be a pretty good read. At over 400 pages I'm guessing it will take me most of the week to get through it. I'm plugging away thru my TBR: have a Neil Gaiman book left in PB and then a few left on my Kindle. It will be nice to be caught up!

That's it! Quick update for this week. Back to the grind!

A new Monday morning

Didn't get much work done on TPZ last week. Only about 14K words. Was a little too busy with my day job and just ran out of daylight. It's at a total of 69K words right now so I s'pose if I really hammered it out I could do it but I anticipate work being busy this week so not sure if I'll have the time or not. I can only but try!

I finished World War Z again last week. The first time I read it I checked it out of the library and I finally went back and bought it and read it. Max Brooks definitely came into his own with this. I like the essential story and the points that are brought up. My only bone of contention is that I wish there were one cohesive story to bind it all together instead of what felt like reading a bunch of shorts. I've never been a fan of the interview style and that's what this essentially is. I know what he was going for here but feel it could have been so much more.

Saw Wolverine this weekend. It was a good flick but I can't say I was too impressed with it. It had a lot going for it but it felt kind of flat. There were so many cool mutants in it but other than Wolverine, Gambit and Deadpool we didn't even get any of their names. I was never a big comic book person but it seemed like you as the viewer was just supposed to know who everyone was. Oh well, at least my wife enjoyed Wolverine's nekkid scene :)