The last one should have been short, it wasn’t.
As if I wasn’t verbose enough already, listening to all of these books is making me even worse.
I need to go back to the dumbening warmth of flashing images, I’m starting to think that for society to move to a healthy paradigm we need to get rid of the nice flashing images as they atrophy your brain.
Hell, I need to return to the flashing pictures quickly or next I’ll start calling Ted Kaczynski “Uncle Ted”. (perhaps I already do in secret)
Let me break this talk before I actually start talking seriously about my feelings on the cute flashing images.
560 words
But yeah, it’s been settled, I’m buying a brand new shitty G41 motherboard at the end of the month. (or whenever I feel like I have enough free money)
So, last post was programs, this post is books.
There are spoilers of the books, as usual.
Update on what I’ve listened to:
– Metro 2034 – A complete let down. Artyom was only thrown in so you would think he actually had anything to do with anything, which he doesn’t.
The whole thing with Sasha and her divided love…lust, whatever it was (lots of dumbness, that’s for sure), made me check and see if I still had my dick as I was seemingly reading a teenage romance for girls (yes, as if “teenage romance” wasn’t girly enough by itself it was one specifically aimed at girls).
Homer intermittently waxing philosophical for almost half the book also gets boring. (hint: stop overusing things)
5/10, the “Metro” universe is the only saving part of this.
I’m also starting to dislike the endings.
I guess using what amounts to the same ending in two books of the same series is a bit of…bullshit?
Will Metro 2035 be any better? I’m almost afraid to find out.
– Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer – Ah, I bet no one was expecting the Spanish Inquisit…this book. (oh boy, if this was a surprise I have a better one in my sleeve)
Other than the astonishingly long title it’s in my opinion a great book about a (great?) serial killer (then again it’s perhaps the second or third of this genre that I read, I’m no professional of the genre)
Zodiac was an interesting serial killer (perhaps killers).
By the end of the book I don’t know who inspired more awe: the killer, with some of the very well planned things he did or the guy who wrote the book, with his decade long dedication to the thing.
If you are looking for an entertaining (as in amusing) book, this isn’t one. It’s mostly dull and simply tells the story of what happened and conjectures on what might have happened in parts where there are little to no hard facts to work with.
7/10
– The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime – Perhaps a more unexpected title than the previous one.
Interesting book. Wanted to do it after the Zodiac one for somewhat obvious reasons.
That’s all.
6/10
That’s a lot of nuts! Sorry, that movie (Kung Pow) came to mind suddenly.
That’s a lot of text. Perhaps a part 5 is coming? (Yes, yes it is. Don’t know when nor why, but it is.)
And for now that’s all, see you next rant.