Lost and Reading

[lls_mutant]

Things I hate about this weather: (sleet/snow)

1.) My parents are coming down from Albany, and I'll be much happier when they get here.

2.) My husband is stuck out on the west coast. Hopefully he will make it back tonight.

3.) Dry heat results in frequent small nosebleeds.

4.) We can't take Toby out for a wagon ride.

5.) So much for going out to dinner tonight. :P

Anyway. I feel like I should write, but my parents are due any minute (the place is actually clean, except for my office- YAY!) and I know as soon as I get going they'll be here. But I find myself at odds, because I actually finished A Feast For Crows. And I can't wait for the next one. (And even though I know better than to ship in George R.R. Martin's universe, I love Jaime/Brienne. I shouldn't, but I do. I suspect he'll be her first, but I also have very little doubt that if he is, it will end very, very badly. Also have much love for Sam/Gilly, because it seems sweet (I doubt it is).) But now that I'm done with ASOIAF (as much as I can be), what shall I read/ Atlantis? Shadowmarch? The Uglies? Terry Pratchet? Maeve Binchy? The Poisonwood Bible? The Golem's Eye? I have many options.

Speaking of reading, I have a new Lost theory. I can really see how people come by the Purgatory theory, and frankly, I like it. It sure seems to explain a lot, especially that List. Dying to know who made the List, btw, especially since it was a "he", which implies it's not Juliet. (Eyeliner dude? Mr. Friendly?) But TPTB already shot the Purgatory theory down. Which is annoying, because it fit all the deaths, too. (You resolve your arc and die. Killed by a gun you probably went to Heaven. Killed by the monster and you probably went to Hell.) But oh well.

Anyway, when they focused on Sawyer, I saw he was reading The Fountainhead. Second favorite book of all time... right behind Atlas Shrugged. Anyone read Atlas Shrugged? Anyone think of Galt's Gulch? If you haven't, basically there's a guy who organized a "strike" of industrialists- men of the mind, Rand kept calling them. Set up a fancy little settlement, just like Otherville. Granted, I can't see Rand's crew acting like The Others (unless the writers and I read Rand very, very differently), but the concept is similar.

This isn't a detailed theory, mind you. Just that it's a group of people on strike against something. Probably amounts to nothing.

Suppose I should go watch for the 'rents, although I suspect Toby will get up soon anyway. (This is good. After they've travelled through this miserable weather to see him, the more he's up the better.) Have a great weekend, all!

Comments

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I actually finished A Feast For Crows.

It took you that long? Wow, you must have incredible powers of self-restraint -- or else a total lack of free time. :: admires :: I really need the next installment now, and it is So Incredibly Frustrating.

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

I hope your parents arrived safe and sound - it's been a very nasty day out on the roads! Ick!

I have decided that I don't care who dies in ASOIAF anymore... as long as he doesn't kill Jon, Tyrion and possibly Arya and Sam. And Ghost! :-P

I'm still going to pimp Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion at you. Yes, it's science fiction, but don't let the genre fool you. It's about pretty much every aspect of humanity and human nature that you can think of - philosophy, religion, history, politics, war, love (and not just romantic, but love of/for a child, too), the evolution of computers (in a much more creative way than Terminator!), the monsters in our nightmares, and there's Poetry and John Keats! Still my favorite epic after 20+ years, though GRRM is quickly becoming a close second. :)

[poolman.livejournal.com]

While I take no joy in the poor weather you're going through, I went golfing today with Clare's dad and husband.

I got a sunburn.

YES. ;)