Rocks fall; everybody dies.

[triadruid]

Almost finished (halfway through the last book) with Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series. When I do, I'm pretty sure this'll be the longest series of books I've ever finished, at least until Mssr. Sanderson finishes the Wheel of Time. Almost 6000 pages of excellent alternate history, but he has the same flaw that Robert Jordan does/did; he apparently intimidates his editor into NOT doing his job, cutting redundant passages and 'stock phrases' where he should. It could also be tightened up a bit, like any series of 11 books might. Still, very entertaining (if something with the least-PC language you can imagine and, by the end, multiple nuclear bomb attacks in the Second World War can be called entertaining). I'd recommend it. On the other hand, I'm looking forward to reclaiming my dialect... there's so much regional/generational 'authenticity' that it's starting to bleed over into my own speech patterns.

Speaking of "rocks fall", we went to go see the new Indy Jones movie last night as part of a fundraiser for Concerned Care, Inc. Riotously funny film (although I imagine the cash bar helped), totally ridiculous plot, and more in-jokes than you can shake a fedora at. princessboredom apparently found it 'boring', but I have to wonder how much she's seen of the first three films. There's a lot of internal humor that won't translate well if you don't remember what came before it; on the gripping hand, Marion Ravenwood Williams!

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. I don't think she's seen *any* of the other films. Heavens. Gotta fix that.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Ack! How is that even possible!?!

(says the guy who has never seen Risky Business)

[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

The face-melting scene in Raiders scared the everliving crap out of me when I was a kid.

And if it makes you feel any better, I've never seen Risky Business, either. I never liked Tom Cruise, even before he went crazy.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

The week prior to the premiere, we watched the first three for just such educmacational porpoises. When I say "we" watched the first "three," I really mean that no way in hell could anybody make me watch the second one again, but the point is I *had* seen it, so it still counted. (I, in fact, saw the second one on laser disc ferfuxake.)

Regardless, we were up to snuff for the fourth one.