Movies, books, and manga

[drcpunk]

Before the Circus larp, mnemex, Beth, and I saw the movie Hellboy. It was a lot of fun. Nazis, flammable unspeakable horrors, a nicely messed up ingenue, Nazis, Rasputin, oh, and Hellboy. And enough internal consistency that I even understand why the bad guys conveniently left someone alive in the climactic scene.

I'm currently re-reading Islandia. Slow, but about what I'm in the mood for. Dated in some ways, still on target in more.

mnemex discovered that the manga Eroica is now available, in English translation, but with the pages going the correct, Japanese way. Yay! It's silly. It's fun. I'm hoping to be able to read the issues I never got. Years ago, I read them as photocopies of the Japanese with a transcript/translation in somewhat wonky English.

Still reading the last couple of Howard's Solomon Kane stories. Pulp, fun, but wincingly dated attitudes towards matters of race.

Finished Faren Miller's The Illusionists. I like it. I see why it was compared to Swordspoint. There's nothing quite like it, though it most reminds me of Carol Stevermer's Serpent's Egg. The ending leaves a bit more hanging than I'd prefer, but it works.

Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

*blink* Serpent's Egg is Stevermer?

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

At least one book by that title is, yes.