Friday, June 13, 2003

Gah, exceeded my badwidth for this month. Ah well, will just let it exceed, and not let it happen next month then ^^;; Scanlations are notorious bandwidth eaters, i realised ^^;

On other things, I just visited Gaiman's blog, and found some interesting snippets, first one being Gollum's acceptance speech for winning the best digital character prize. You can download it here. It's hilarious. Oh, and there's a language advisory on it XD

The second thing is, it seems Morpheus in Matrix and Morpheus in Sandman are related after all. It seems, in Enter The Matrix (the game), Morpheus has a phone number for rebels to contact him. And the name of his phony business is "The Daniel Institute of Dream Interpretation". Non-sandman fans might not get it, but Daniel is the name of the second sandman in Gaiman's series. He took over after Morpheus, the first one, died. And here's what gaiman also said: "There was an article someone forwarded to me when the first Matrix film came out, an interview where Lawrence Fishburne talked about meeting DC Comics' Head Jenette Kahn on a plane, and how she gave him some Sandman books, which he didn't read until he was cast in the Matrix, and was told by the Wachowskis that his part should be played like Morpheus in the Sandman comics." I don't see much resemblance though, except the way matrix-morpheus talks. That bit is very similar ^^

And last thing. A nice book, or rather, trilogy review - The Chronicles Of Tornor by Elizabeth A. Lynn. (Watchtower, The Dancers Of Arun, The Nothern Girl)

I picked the books up at the library yesterday, and was basically looking forward to a good read. What surprised me though, was that the story turned out to have lots of slashy bits thrown in XD There's lesbians and gays and even incest. ^^; The story is set in an alternate universe, where there's a Red Clan called the Chearis who are somewhat similar to the Tayledras in that they are peace loving, beautiful, open-minded and sexually liberal. There's also two other groups of people, the Northerners and the Southerners. Notherners basically look caucasian while southerners look like africans.

In book one, the story begins when southerners raid the greatest of the northern holds. Everyone is killed save for the prince and his loyal commander. Eventually, these two escape, and with the help of friends, are taken in by the Chearis. Book two, however, is set in a much later time, when a boy who is crippled and orphaned is brought back home by his brother to live with the Chearis. I haven't read book 3, but recurrent themes here include love, sacrifice and self-discovery.

The author's style is very simple, and similar to Jostein Gaardner's, though the implications in her sentences are much deeper. All in all, a very short trilogy, one which you can finish in a week at the most. The only thing that irks me is how much this woman loves to drag her romances out. Her teasing can sometimes drive you nuts ^^;;; For example in book one, the prince's loyal commander falls head over heels in love with his master's sister, and only at the last page does he realise the one he loves is his prince (who looks like the sister). And then the story ends. >.< Book two wasn't as bad, you get some tastefully done descriptions of this really cute guy, Kel's intimacy with his lover, Sefer (a white haired, green eyed, beauty). Then, she kills off sefer, and Kel and his youger brother fall in love. And before you can fully come to terms with what just happened, she stops talking about their relationship altogether. Argh. ^^;;;;;;;;;;; There's nothing more maddening than unresolved romances. But the story is very good, and worth a read. ^^ I think it's available at #bookz. I saw it there yesterday ^^

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