Book Foo, and Video Game Foo,

Finished: A Fire in the Sun, by George Alec Effinger (reread)
Started: The Year's Best SF 6 (short story collection (reread)

A Fire in the Sun was enjoyable, but not quite as good as When Gravity Fails. Still, it made me eager to find the third book in the series.

Finished: Excession, by Iain M. Banks (reread)

Don't have much to say to it. Even though it's my second reread I found I didn't really know or want to pay attention to what was going on in a lot of places. Fun despite it, but I think I have to be in a particular frame of mind (and hyper-attentive) to appreciate this, even though, oddly, it's one of my favorite of the Culture books.

Started and Finished: The Fabulous Riverboat, by Philip Jose Farmer (Riverworld book 2) (reread)
Started: The Exile Kiss, by George Alec Effinger

Yeah, I didn't intend to read more than the first volume again, but I ran out of new books. As usual, good idea, kinda iffy execution. A couple notes though (with an eye towards adaptations). ( Read more... )

Video-gamewise, I've been playing L4D2 of course. Some general thoughts... ( Read more... )

What I want to see in L4D3 (eventually, aside from fixing a couple of the problems mentioned above): ( Read more... )

And for an amusing link of the day, though you may have already seen it: "Jane Austen's Fight Club"