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Books 10-11
Jan. 16th, 2009 08:31 amSlowed down a little this week....
10) Diamonds Are Forever: this is the second James Bond book I've read and I'm wondering whether to continue. I think I'll give it one more go, because both of this one and Live and Let Die are Bond vs. Criminals rather than Bond vs. the Soviets or other traditional espionage targets. I suspect my third try will not overly thrill me either, since the Bond in the books just isn't as suave as the Bond in the movies. They are interesting cultural artifacts of the 1950's however. Diamonds really irked me at one point when Felix listed off a strong of minor crimes that some low level mobster had done and included Rape in there. Rape is Minor? The world has changed a lot in 50 years, and in that case for the better.
11) Dream Park (re-read): I picked up copies of this and More in Gods Eye to send to my aunt, who is looking for new authors to read. I remain astounded by how well this book works on its various levels - certainly well enough to overlook the various editorial slips that you only catch on multiple readings. Once again I finish it thinking that I really should run a Dream Park game - not just something the awfully slim RPG system from the 1990s, but something where the PCs are people visiting the park, playing characters in a Dream Park game, where there is some other mystery going on amongst the PCs. It would be difficult to do, with tracking two nested game realities, and hard to plot as a mystery, but I still think it would be work the effort.
10) Diamonds Are Forever: this is the second James Bond book I've read and I'm wondering whether to continue. I think I'll give it one more go, because both of this one and Live and Let Die are Bond vs. Criminals rather than Bond vs. the Soviets or other traditional espionage targets. I suspect my third try will not overly thrill me either, since the Bond in the books just isn't as suave as the Bond in the movies. They are interesting cultural artifacts of the 1950's however. Diamonds really irked me at one point when Felix listed off a strong of minor crimes that some low level mobster had done and included Rape in there. Rape is Minor? The world has changed a lot in 50 years, and in that case for the better.
11) Dream Park (re-read): I picked up copies of this and More in Gods Eye to send to my aunt, who is looking for new authors to read. I remain astounded by how well this book works on its various levels - certainly well enough to overlook the various editorial slips that you only catch on multiple readings. Once again I finish it thinking that I really should run a Dream Park game - not just something the awfully slim RPG system from the 1990s, but something where the PCs are people visiting the park, playing characters in a Dream Park game, where there is some other mystery going on amongst the PCs. It would be difficult to do, with tracking two nested game realities, and hard to plot as a mystery, but I still think it would be work the effort.
