i'm not playing civ4

[rone]

And it's not because i'm afraid to see what happens after Elizabeth planted a stack of 7 Redcoat and at least 13 Cavalry units (i say "at least" because the stack ends in an ellipsis) just outside a city i took from her some turns ago (which, in a strange coincidence, is named "Teoihuacan"; i am playing the Aztecs, so how did she end up founding a city with an Aztec name? way i see it, she was asking me to capture it!); i presume that after she's done with that, she'll probably go on to fully remove the rest of my presence from the continent she inhabits.  I hope i can delay her, sue for peace, and get on with maybe shooting for Alpha Centauri before time ends.

Anyway, the real reason i'm not playing is that i want to get a hold of my free time so i can get back to writing (both e&tg and the proto-novel) and reading (since i came back from Las Vegas and finished Pratchett's Thud! and James Rollins's Sandstorm, i've started reading a few pages of the following books but then stopped: Sideways, The Name of the Rose, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Confederacy of Dunces [reread]).

In other news, Kim and i saw Murderball last night and it was quite good.  Tonight we met vito_excalibur and had dinner with her and palecur and amywithani at the local Colombian joint (they were out of Colombian beer! WTF!).

But no writing tonight.  Now, bed.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I liked Thud! On the whole, not quite up to the level of Going Postal or Night Watch, but the scenes with Vimes trying to hold it together after the break-in are some of the best and most serious work Pratchett's done.

A Fire Upon the Deep is a great galactic-nerdpocalypse story, though the opening scenes are incomprehensible enough to be rough going. Near the end it has one of the most ingenious Outer Space Big Battels in science fiction.

And you don't need me to tell you what a good book A Confederacy of Dunces is.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I agree with your Thud! assessment.

AFUtD's prologue was uncomfortably dense. I hope it gets better once i get into it, but i finally decided on Sideways, since i already saw the movie and figured it'd be easier reading.

Sometimes i like reading the Percy Walker foreword to ACoD; in itself, it's a lovely story, and it really reflects my own experience with the book (except for the whole manuscript bit).