Thoughts XVII - Books Situation

Why do we stop readings the books we read? 

In 2007 - I stop reading 2 books
In 2008 - I stop reading 7 books.
In 2009 - I stop reading15 books
In 2010.- I stop reading14 books
In 2011 - I stop reading 4 books


I've stop reading some books in the last couple of years that Ididn't go back. I really didn't care about them. Others I stop reading for a while holding them back to read them whenever I feel like it. I am trying to finish some and I would like to finish everyone of them. I really don't like stoping at the middle, out of respect for the authors. Maybe someday things will change.

Some I really didn't care about the book. I was bored to death and trying for nothing like...

1. The Book with No Name: It's was a boring book without anything good in my opinion
2. The Devil's Day: Interesting theme but poor execution. I didn't care about any personages or story.
3. Knowledge of Angels: Boring book, boring plot, boring characters (one-dimensional if that's possible.)
4. Earth Factor X - Nothing good came out of it.I didn't even care what I was reading. I can't even remember the plot or characters.
5. Only Forward - Interesting Setting and Concept but not to my liking. I think the characters were a little weak.
6. Blood County - I must say... What? I didn't even underestand anything.
7. Blood Eagle - Maybe I will return but in the end was a poor executed book which didn't grip me to it.
8. Out of Ashes - Post Apocalyptic in their worst compenent. I really didn't care about any character or setting.
9. Mass Effect - Revelation - I really thought that would give something new about Mass Effect World. It did not and I really hated the book.
10. Age of Ra - I really didn't care about anything even if the Gods concept was nice.
11. To Challenge Chaos - Confusion, slow as hell, and poor book. 
12. Jennifer Goverment - I enjoy the setting and plot but the characters were too weak in my opinion. Made me hate the book almost...
13. When the Wind Blows - I really like one of his book, the rest I gave up because all his books have the same pace and are boring as hell.
14. Un-Lun-Dun - Interesting concept, interestnig plot but the story itself was slow and the characters so strange that I didn't enjoy them so I gave up
15. Servatns of Twilight - I really wanted to read this book but I was boring myself to death.
16. Meat - Another good book but didn't captivate me. I want to try again.
17. Maiden of Pain - Started and after one month gave up. Trying again a couple of months later but I didn't work for me.
18. Star Wars - The Force Unleash. - Again I thought it would enrich the game I was playing. I was so wrong.
19. Planescape Torment - It read like the videogame without anything new.
20. Queen of Blades - I really didn't care about anything. I gave up
21. Impact - Intersting setting. Maybe I will return but probably not.

I will return. I must return.

1. Do android dreams of electric sheep - Boring book I must say. Maybe in one time It was good but I t was so slow paced that I am feeling bored 
2. Flood - Enjoy the theme, the characters were not that good - Will return.
3. Northern Light- I found myself bored  with almost everything but will return.
4. Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix - With so many books out there why wasting 700 pages in one book I can see a good movie? but it's on my nightstand and I will finish and the rest of the books.

Desire - GROWLS - Beautiful

You must see the music live. The sound is not that good. But listen to that GROWLS!!!!

That's why Desire is the Best Doom Metal Band in the world without question. No other band can make you feel despair, hate, sorrow, love in one music.

If you don't want to hear all the music just here the screams... At 06:00

TAKE ME BEYOND INFINITY!

IN YOUR MOONLIGHT WINGS

I WANT TO CRY OUT A LAST SCREAM

I WANT TO FALL ASLEEP AND DREAM

Totally fucking awesemoness...

As I hear the music now,  happy, It makes me wanna smile. Beautiful.

If you want hear the not live music and listen to the lyrics... You will understand.

Review: Velocity - Dean Koontz

Title - Velocity

Author - Dean Koontz

Year - 2005

Stand Alone or Series - Stand Alone

Pages - 495

Reading Time - 8 in January 2012

Well here we go again. Wherever you check you read that if you like Stephen King you will like Dean Koontz but that's just plain wrong. Dean Koontz is a good writer don't get me wrong. But he is not at the same league as King. 

He writes small fast chapters (it reminds of James Patterson) with a quick and easy to-read story. 

Then we you start reading it goes so wrong. Billy is a bartender who receives notes mainly on his windshield that makes him choose one of the choises. First he informs the police and somenoe dies, or if he doesn't another person dies. After the first two victims someone close to him is going on the spotlight. As the tale progress we see Billy trying to understand who is doing this. 

There are some things that I don't understand. 

- Disposing bodies in a place where nobody will notice. Who the hell have a bottomless pit in the backyard? 

- He mistakenly dials 911 and the police comes to talk to him and even search his house. what? 

- Someone cares to explain what his wife had? I didn't understood. I really didn't. 

- A police officer gives information about an investigation via telephone without confirming anything? 

- How could the evil-doer able to do some of the things he did? At some point he seemed quite tranquil. Not even bothering that billy had a weapon. Walking in his house without Billy noticing. And other things like that. 

- And the ending. Wtf? Can't Dean Koontz end a book in any other way? That's the main reason I don't want to read any other book by him. Everything ends fine and everybody is happy. (Not even the consequence of disposing the bodies, saying in a telephone "Waste that bitch" and other things... 

I think the book will slowly fade out in my mind. 5/10

Review: Crusade for Armageddon - Jonathan Green

Title - Crusade for Armageddon

Author - Jonathan Green

Year - 2003

Stand Alone or Series - 1st in Black Templars duology

Pages - 280

Reading Time - 14days in September 2007

Synopsis

Battle-weary Marshal Brant of the Black Templars returns home after leading his Space Marines to victory through countless campaigns. But all hopes of respite soon fade when they find their planet, Solemnus, under savage attack from battle hungry orks. After a desperate struggle, Brant finds his forces are all but destroyed and the honor of the Chapter stained with blood. His vow for revenge takes him to the fiery shores of Armageddon, a sulphurous world synonymous with war, and into the heat of battle!

Review

 This is the first book of a duology (or at least only two were written so far) set on Armageddon and if you know about 40k this is a world locked in constant war. This story is set on the third armageddon war that confronts the Imperial Guard and a panoply of Space Marine chapters against one of the biggest Ork armies to set foot on a planet. We follow the tale of a crusade fleet of the Black Templars chapter; probably the most zealous and dedicated of all Space Marines, as they hunt a ork warlord that destroyed their home planet. The follow him to Armageddon and instead of joining the war like other Chapters they go on their own quest. If you  want a book with twists and such don't expect nothing here. This is a straightforward plot. 


The tale is told in three prespectives. First the Black Templars, the other a Warlord Titan with Tyrannus Maximus (already damaged and alone on the battlefield) and the last a Steel Legion Imperial Guardsmen with an important information and trying to get back to HQ. The plot in then converge the three viewpoints into a single massive battle against a factory for the Orks. 


Overall, nice book with great action but nothing that will make you want to read it again. Not the best printed by Black Library. But it's about the Black Templars Chapter so a must read for a afficionado. 6/10

Review: Ass Goblins of Auschwitz - Cameron Pierce

Title - Ass Goblins of Auschwitz

Author - Cameron Pierce

Year - 2010

Stand Alone or Series - Stand Alone

Pages - 215

Reading Time - September 2011

This is the most bizarro book I've ever the displeasure of reading. I read it because I wanted to try this genre but it was just not good to my liking. Of course this book will appeal to others but to me it didn't.

The plot is quite weird (what?) we’re introduced to Prisoners 999 and 1001, conjoined twins attached at the ribcage. They are prisoners in Auschwitz which is run by race of aliens called Ass Goblins.  These aliens abduct children from the neighboring planet of Kidland and throw them in Auschwitz in order to build bicycles and sex dolls out of other dead children. They receive a sadistic treatment by the ass goblins and at the same time avoid being chosen or else  they will be turn to hard cider to the Ass Goblins to drink. The rest is for the other "children" to eat it. There are rectum fingering, a toilet toads that stick their long tongues up the asses of prisoners kids, cockrats, ass dolls and also experiments alike the nazi ones. The snow outside is made of "swastikas". The book resolves about the escape of the join twins and a couple of other children. 3/10

Review: Traitor's Gambit - Sandy Mitchell

Title - Traitor's Gambit

Author - Sandy Mitchell

Year - 2009

Stand Alone or Series - Commissar Ciaphas Cain VII

Pages - 32

Reading Time - 1 day October 2011

This is a short story released by Black Library in one of their events. You won't get anything more here than other Ciaphas Cain novels. The plot was simple and direct (with only 32 pages we get only a small amount of information). We follow Ciaphas as Commissarial Liaison Officer to the staff of the Lord General as they arrive at the Deepwater System. Not a warzone but as to show all imperial citzens that they could count on the Imperial Guard. This is an almost mystery novel as we follow him to find out who the really enemies are and who's ploting against the IG. It's quite good but as I said before. Too small. 6.5/10

Review: The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightment +2 - Carlton Mellick III

Title - The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightment +2

Author - Carlton Mellick III

Year - 2010

Stand Alone or Series - Stand Alone

Pages - 215

Reading Time - 13 days in October 2011

Synopsis

ARE YOU READY TO PLAY SOME DUNGEONS AND FUCKING DRAGONS?

The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 is an absurd comedy about a group of adventurers (elf, halfling, bard, dwarf, assassin, thief) going through an existential crisis after having discovered that they are really just pre-rolled characters living inside of a classic AD&D role playing game. While exploring the ruins of Tardis Keep, these 6 characters must deal with their inept Dungeon Master's retarded imagination and resist their horny teenaged players' commands to have sex with everything in sight.

Featuring: punk rock elf chicks, death metal orcs, porn-addicted beholders, a goblin/halfling love affair, a gnoll orgy, and a magical dildo that holds the secrets of the universe.

Review

This is parody of all those dungeons and dragons books out there. A sexual parody I might say. We get to see the players (all young teens) and their made up characters and some NPC's created by a young deep troubled dungeon master. The made up characters are all that made up and as they are penetrated by the dildo they become aware of their "lives". Almost in every page there is a sexual action or hint and drawings made to look like a teen has drawn them. This is not a children's book and it's a good gift for any dungeon and dragon player because the normal view of a person about D&D players like Magic the Gathering is that they are a male frustated boy. Even if this is not true at all. Good funny book but not one that I will read it twice even if there are some beautiful elf looking girls in small garnements. The character development is done not without merit and the plot itself is too cliché. The sexual parts are almost all quite funny.  I would give these book to anyone who plays Dungeons 7/10

Review: Draco - Ian Watson

Title - Draco

Author - Ian Watson

Year - 1990

Stand Alone or Series - Inquisitor Wars I

Pages - 238

Reading Time - 22 days - October & November 2011

Synopsis
Forty thousand years in the future, the human Imperium struggles for survival against its relentless enemies. Inquisitor Jaq Draco uncovers a plot that threatens the psychic future of Mankind. Can he unravel the trail of con- spiracy before he himself is destroyed by its deadly clutches? Dazzling and frenetic, Ian Watson’s Inquisition War presents a unique vision of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Review

This was the first book written in the 40k world. We follow the story of Draco, a Malleus inquisitor, and it's odd retinue . A Squat (Grimm), a Callidus Assassin (Meh'Lindi) able to transform itself and a Navigator (Vitali Googol). There is also for a small brief of time the inclusion of an odd psyker. In the beginning we follow draco into a world (Stanlislav) besiege by genestealers (strangely at this time genestealers were not know to be a part of Tyrannid, or if they were nobody in the all book linked them together). In this world Draco must follow an inquisitor work and from here we jump from one place to another. The main story is Draco is investigating something odd that his happening within his own order. He travels to a Space Hulk, to the Eye of Terror and finally to Earth. This all betrayal was part of the Hydra plan. The Ordo Hydra is an extremist faction of the secret illuminati society. What they want is to link (enslave) all mankind at the orders of Ordo Hydra and with it they believe that it will be enough to destroy all that threatens it's survival,. The book ends with a cliffhanger. Some strange ancient words made the reading quite dificult. 8.5/10

Review: Death in the Clouds - Agatha Christie

Title -Death in the Clouds

Author - Agatha Christie

Year - 1935

Stand Alone or Series - Stand Alone - Story of Herculae Poirot 

Pages - 217

Reading Time - 5 days in November 2011

Review

This was an interesting read from Agatha Christie. An Herculae Poirot novel and one of the best so far. This tale takes place on a flight from France to England. There a murder occurs and the now retired Poirot gets to solve another mystery not because he wants it but because he is one of the suspects (even if the authorities don't believe he has done it).


As the story moves on we get to see a couple of that characters interactions and as other Agatha Christie's books not everything is at it seems. We have the clues but I didn't find out the killer. I guess a normal people wouldn't have found out. I really wanted to meet someone who have found out a killer in a Poirot novel with only the clues. Not guessing. But the clues. Looking back there are some hints that Poirot knows who the killer his from the middle of the book but only in the end, which is similar all other books, he joins all or a couple of suspects together to dramatize the plot and unveil the killer. 7.5/10

I have to believe in something...

My hope is with Heart of Steel by Manowar

Build a fire a thousand miles away to light my long way home

I ride a comet

My trail is long to stay

Silence is a heavy stone...

I fight the world and take all they can give

There are times my heart hangs low

Born to walk against the wind

Born to hear my name

No matter where I stand I'm alone

Stand and fight

Live by your heart

Always one more try

I'm not afraid to die

Stand and fight

say what you feel

Born with a heart of steel

Burn the bridge behind you

Leave no retreat

There's only one way home

Those who laugh and crowd the path

And cut each other's throats

Will fall like melting snow

They'll watch us rise with fire in our eyes

They'll bow their heads

Their hearts will hang low

Then we'll laugh and they will kneel

And know this heart of steel was

Too hard to break

Too hard to hold

Stand and fight

Live by your heart

Always one more try

I'm not afraid to die

Stand and fight

Say what you feel

born with a heart of steel

But the rest... heart and mind are with Desire. My will to battle for life is in ruins and yet again with Desire... My Life is Desire.... 

(not of this song...)

My heart... My frozen heart

Is bleeding and crying

With our torn apart

You were the last scrap of life within my being

You tore up and eternal wound

You left me dying...

My heart burning in flames, for you,

For all eternity...

So I am watching Smallvile in a episode that Lionel and Martha Kent are trapped and must escape a series of sick games of a mad-man and Lionel Luthor talks about a fail takeover of a company called APEX. In the same day I am watching the ending of an episode of Burn Notice and Bruce Campbell (don't know the character name) says that if he wants to make money he would bet on APEX. What are the odds?


Following this line of reasoning he would lose all money because the Apex firm went bankrupt ahah