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shadowkat* I need help, I'm addicted to buying books on the Kindle. This is not good. Did you know you can buy books between 0$ and 5$ and then just delete them from your device after you are done? No upkeep. Or they just sit there, not taking up apartment space or shelf space. Maybe it will run its course - I went nuts this summer buying itunes for the ipod touch. Bought over 600 songs. Including the entire soundtrack to the Wire amongst other things. (I haven't tried audiobooks yet...I tremble to think what would happen if I did.).
(Note: this does not mean I won't keep buying books from bookstores..I will. I'm in love with books. I fell in love with them at the age of 3 and as I grew older, it just got more intense. This past year? I bought five. I come from a long line of insane bookworms. Or voracious readers. My father collects books - buys them in hardback drives my mom crazy, although she's just as bad as he is. And my grandparents, on both sides had large collections that I borrowed heavily from. I remember becoming a library aid in Junior high and high school - just so I could read all the books in the school library. One co-worker asked me..."are you one of those people who always has a book in their hands?" Yep. I feel naked without them.)
* Saw Revenge last night. But see no reviews on flist. Maybe I need to friend some new people? No one on my flist is reviewing any of the shows I like at the moment - well except for one or two here and there. Makes me wonder if there's much point in reviewing these shows? Oh well, will do it anyway for five or six who appear to be into it.
* My difficulty with Revenge is I don't care about Danile Grayson. At all. He's nice, I guess. But the character just doesn't register. Nolan and Tyler on the other hand, definitely do. Actually I care more about their relationship and interaction than I do Emily and Daniel, who are just...damp like an old gray towel. No excitement. No tension. Emily has sexual chemistry and tension with both Nolan and to a degree Jack, but I don't see it with Daniel. Nor do I see her falling for Daniel or even know why she would, intellectually, sure, but ...it just feels cliche. That relationship isn't working for me.
* What works in Revenge is Gabriel Mann's Nolan. Nolan adds something to every scene and is a character that just jumps off the screen. The actor's understated performance and vulnerability helps.
Emily: I never asked you to get involved. I tried to keep you out of it.
Nolan: You're father asked me to get involved. He would not have wanted this for you.
I'm glad he's not alive to see what you've become.
(Unfortunately the last line I saw coming a mile away. And to be honest, I agreed with Emily about Tyler. But I think she was wrong to interfere. She made things worse instead of better. Nolan had them under control. Also I think it unhinged the Talented Mr. Tyler and made him more dangerous than he was before.)
* Mr. Tanata is a bit cliche too...and disappointing. But he does fill in a few blanks. We now know how Emily learned her tactics and who trained her. He tells her that her emotions are her weakness. She'll only succeed if she is cold. Falling in love with Daniel is a problem. (Again, I don't see this...but okay. Cares, maybe, but where's the love?) He also advises her to use people against people and stay out of the way of the blast. Use Victoria Grayson to get rid of Amanda aka the real Emily Thorne, and use Tyler to get rid of Conrad. I think this may back-fire and Tyler will take care of Daniel or Amanda will. I honestly think either Tyler or Amanda will be the one who kills Daniel.
*Tyler didn't take what Emily did to him well, but kudos to Nolan for not telling Tyler it was Emily who exposed him and the tape, not Nolan. Actually Emily via Daniel, because she needs Daniel to look into his father's files, not Tyler. Instead it is Tyler who is doing the peeking and Tyler who has figured out what the Grayson's did to David Clark and Tyler who is blackmailing Conrad with the information.
*I can't decide if Tyler prefers Ashley or Nolan. He appears to be playing them both, thought Nolan was smarter. Em-Amanda is right - you feel for a hooker?
*The teen subplot has got to go...sorry but Declan and Charlotte aren't working for me. But hey, kudos to Jack for pointing out how idiotic running off together and skipping school truly is. Do you want to be broke forever? No. Then stick to school and run off later, after college.
Other than that, not much happened. Sort of slow episode. The pacing sort of got a bit sluggish after the break. Needs to wrap up soon if they plan on making it to the whole shooting thing before the holiday hiatus, or what tv shows now call the mid-season finale.
It's good, but Once Upon a Time is a whole lot better in my opinion.
* My boss read about my cost savings and gave me the proverbial cookie. Yay.
* Still reading The Hating Game which while entertaining is not as subversive as I thought. Pretty people still rule. And it still plays to romantic tropes. The cheating boyfriend didn't really cheat. The sarcastic bitter heroine has Daddy Abandonment issues. And like all romances there's this decidedly odd anti-career pro-traditional values undercurrent. It's like we're hard-wired ...to feel guilty if we don't live the traditional life or something - so it comes out in our romantic fantasies? I know, I know...I shouldn't analyze these things, but I can't turn it off.
(Note: this does not mean I won't keep buying books from bookstores..I will. I'm in love with books. I fell in love with them at the age of 3 and as I grew older, it just got more intense. This past year? I bought five. I come from a long line of insane bookworms. Or voracious readers. My father collects books - buys them in hardback drives my mom crazy, although she's just as bad as he is. And my grandparents, on both sides had large collections that I borrowed heavily from. I remember becoming a library aid in Junior high and high school - just so I could read all the books in the school library. One co-worker asked me..."are you one of those people who always has a book in their hands?" Yep. I feel naked without them.)
* Saw Revenge last night. But see no reviews on flist. Maybe I need to friend some new people? No one on my flist is reviewing any of the shows I like at the moment - well except for one or two here and there. Makes me wonder if there's much point in reviewing these shows? Oh well, will do it anyway for five or six who appear to be into it.
* My difficulty with Revenge is I don't care about Danile Grayson. At all. He's nice, I guess. But the character just doesn't register. Nolan and Tyler on the other hand, definitely do. Actually I care more about their relationship and interaction than I do Emily and Daniel, who are just...damp like an old gray towel. No excitement. No tension. Emily has sexual chemistry and tension with both Nolan and to a degree Jack, but I don't see it with Daniel. Nor do I see her falling for Daniel or even know why she would, intellectually, sure, but ...it just feels cliche. That relationship isn't working for me.
* What works in Revenge is Gabriel Mann's Nolan. Nolan adds something to every scene and is a character that just jumps off the screen. The actor's understated performance and vulnerability helps.
Emily: I never asked you to get involved. I tried to keep you out of it.
Nolan: You're father asked me to get involved. He would not have wanted this for you.
I'm glad he's not alive to see what you've become.
(Unfortunately the last line I saw coming a mile away. And to be honest, I agreed with Emily about Tyler. But I think she was wrong to interfere. She made things worse instead of better. Nolan had them under control. Also I think it unhinged the Talented Mr. Tyler and made him more dangerous than he was before.)
* Mr. Tanata is a bit cliche too...and disappointing. But he does fill in a few blanks. We now know how Emily learned her tactics and who trained her. He tells her that her emotions are her weakness. She'll only succeed if she is cold. Falling in love with Daniel is a problem. (Again, I don't see this...but okay. Cares, maybe, but where's the love?) He also advises her to use people against people and stay out of the way of the blast. Use Victoria Grayson to get rid of Amanda aka the real Emily Thorne, and use Tyler to get rid of Conrad. I think this may back-fire and Tyler will take care of Daniel or Amanda will. I honestly think either Tyler or Amanda will be the one who kills Daniel.
*Tyler didn't take what Emily did to him well, but kudos to Nolan for not telling Tyler it was Emily who exposed him and the tape, not Nolan. Actually Emily via Daniel, because she needs Daniel to look into his father's files, not Tyler. Instead it is Tyler who is doing the peeking and Tyler who has figured out what the Grayson's did to David Clark and Tyler who is blackmailing Conrad with the information.
*I can't decide if Tyler prefers Ashley or Nolan. He appears to be playing them both, thought Nolan was smarter. Em-Amanda is right - you feel for a hooker?
*The teen subplot has got to go...sorry but Declan and Charlotte aren't working for me. But hey, kudos to Jack for pointing out how idiotic running off together and skipping school truly is. Do you want to be broke forever? No. Then stick to school and run off later, after college.
Other than that, not much happened. Sort of slow episode. The pacing sort of got a bit sluggish after the break. Needs to wrap up soon if they plan on making it to the whole shooting thing before the holiday hiatus, or what tv shows now call the mid-season finale.
It's good, but Once Upon a Time is a whole lot better in my opinion.
* My boss read about my cost savings and gave me the proverbial cookie. Yay.
* Still reading The Hating Game which while entertaining is not as subversive as I thought. Pretty people still rule. And it still plays to romantic tropes. The cheating boyfriend didn't really cheat. The sarcastic bitter heroine has Daddy Abandonment issues. And like all romances there's this decidedly odd anti-career pro-traditional values undercurrent. It's like we're hard-wired ...to feel guilty if we don't live the traditional life or something - so it comes out in our romantic fantasies? I know, I know...I shouldn't analyze these things, but I can't turn it off.
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Date: 2011-12-09 05:22 pm (UTC)