The premiere of “Overdue Reviews”! :D
Well, as any semi-creative person will tell you, if you’re not making something, you’re slowly going insane. I liked the idea of doing a review type vlog, but hopefully making it slightly more interesting than staring at the screen and listening to me talk. I picked the book I was reading at the time, “Feed” by Mira Grant. It’s a novel about bloggers after a zombie uprising and the integration they face in this new world. It’s a good start to a trilogy and while I wasn’t as huge a fan of the subsequent two novels, hopefully this was a good start to something new!
I’m going to try to do these every couple weeks. The hardest part was figuring out the title animation on iMovie, as I’m still fairly new to this whole movie editing thing ;) But what did you think? Should I continue to do more?
I couldn’t get behind Robert Jordan either. He describes every molecule of the petals of the flowers by the side of the road of the inn where Rand slept that one night. He irritates me. Didn’t make it past book 4. I’d say 3 1/2 books are more than enough to tell me if I’m going to make it through all they way.
If you haven’t already indulged, my best recommendations are for David Gemmell’s Drenai saga and Glen Cook for the Black Company series. They’re every bit as good as the Wheel of Time in their own way and much easier to get through.
And Stephen King for the Dark Tower series. TOP pick.
Not in any way similar to Feed, as far as I can tell, but Julian May’s Pliocene Exile, Intervention and Milieu series (really just one big story). Great science fiction with a bit of philosophy thrown in, e.g. Teilhard De Jardin’s Noosphere.