x_dazzler: (Casual ~ Relaxed)
Alison Blaire ([personal profile] x_dazzler) wrote2005-04-11 01:20 pm

Random question...

Anyone have any books they'd like to refer to me, for reading? I've been working through the backlog on my reading shelf lately and finding new stuff to look into is being considered just now. Any topic is good, I can handle English and Spanish and if I push it real hard, maybe French. (I may need help on the French if it makes use of something other than the general popular terms/language though. So if you suggest that, be ready to be nagged and stuff.)

Oh! And Hank? The origami critters are still a hit. Thank you. Miles asked me how to make cranes so I showed him - but I thought you might want to show him how to make some of the others? Some of those I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about making anyway. You went pretty wild there, pun unintended. ;)

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart. They should've just hired him and Matt Stover to write the prequels, then they wouldn't suck.

[identity profile] x-dazzler.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh. I just can't say no to that now, can I?

*adds to list*

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Stover did write one of the prequels, didn't he? I hear his stuff comes highly recommended.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the novels, yeah. Mace Windu, Jedi Badass. I mean, Shatterpoint. Lucas is handling the movies himself, though, and he kinda shouldn't be. Midichlorians, immaculate conception, and "Wahoo!"

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, I'm not too keen on the prequels, even discounting the bad science. Boy genius with mechanical hand goes wacko and kills all his friends? Yeah, not so much with the sitting well.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Can see why it wouldn't. Any and all evil-twin episodes of anything hit me pretty much the same way. Novels are good, though. The Yoda one only has a cameo of Anakin, and the Windu one doesn't have him at all, except for mentions. And if you get the paperback of the Windu one, it has this pretty awesome short story in the back from a clone-trooper's POV.