This Week In Books
Oct. 23rd, 2006 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanGood lord, I can keep it up two weeks running. I read a lot of manga this week, so the book count suffered. But this is what I did read.
1) Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Hiaasen always tells a good story, but the humor (what I read him for) can be hit and miss. Hoot is more of a story than a funny story, so it was miss here. (This might also have to do with the fact that it's a YA book.) Anyway, it's the heartwarming story of a new kid at school who finds friendship and Moral Cause defending a den of endangered ground owls from evil chain restaraunt developers. That part of the book is good, some of the (humorous?) pranks the kids pull to try and stop the developers (releasing water moccasins into the fenced-in enclosure to scare of the franchise baddies while not explaining why the snakes didn't also eat the owls, their natural prey)? Not so much...
2) Where's My Cow? - Terry Pratchett
The picture book companion to Thud!, it's pretty much what you'd expect from a tie-in. The text is lifted more or less directly from the novel (not so fun). The pictures, however, are fun. I'm partial to Foul Ole Ron.
3) Thud - Terry Pratchett
Was awesome, as only a Vimes book can be. I dig the scenes with Young Sam, and there was lots of Angua-time too (yay!). Two new members were added to the Watch this time around, and I hope we see more of them. I want to say much, much more about them but will not spoil it for you. So go read!
That will be all.
1) Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Hiaasen always tells a good story, but the humor (what I read him for) can be hit and miss. Hoot is more of a story than a funny story, so it was miss here. (This might also have to do with the fact that it's a YA book.) Anyway, it's the heartwarming story of a new kid at school who finds friendship and Moral Cause defending a den of endangered ground owls from evil chain restaraunt developers. That part of the book is good, some of the (humorous?) pranks the kids pull to try and stop the developers (releasing water moccasins into the fenced-in enclosure to scare of the franchise baddies while not explaining why the snakes didn't also eat the owls, their natural prey)? Not so much...
2) Where's My Cow? - Terry Pratchett
The picture book companion to Thud!, it's pretty much what you'd expect from a tie-in. The text is lifted more or less directly from the novel (not so fun). The pictures, however, are fun. I'm partial to Foul Ole Ron.
3) Thud - Terry Pratchett
Was awesome, as only a Vimes book can be. I dig the scenes with Young Sam, and there was lots of Angua-time too (yay!). Two new members were added to the Watch this time around, and I hope we see more of them. I want to say much, much more about them but will not spoil it for you. So go read!
That will be all.