Tuesday, 6 April 2010

That's a lot of tissue

Kick Ass was amazing.  Mike and I got the train to St Helens today to watch it and have a bit of a catch up.  That was nice considering I haven't seen him since before we started uni. 

We both very much enjoyed the film, laughing out loud on more than a few occasions and, I think, both secretly knowing exactly what was going on in Dave's mind during most of his scenes in the first half of the film.

I had half a pizza for tea because I wasn't too hungry after all the sweets I'd eaten in the cinema, and then I fell asleep listening to my book - Halo: The fall of Reach by Eric Nylund.  I've read it before though so I won't need to go through the faff of going back through the last chapter trying to find where it was up to when I dozed off.  But don't let my tiredness fool you, it's a really good book and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in futuristic battles with an invading alien army.  Listening to the audiobook is much better than actually reading it though because you get Todd McLaren telling you the fine details, such as file locations (of the H:\\UNSCSecCom\CP\ScavVir\SysDOC6\Station:Cradle variety) that you would normally skim past because you don't care where it's stored in the Iroquois' memory banks; after all it's just jargon, read out to you. 
Listening to the events unfold above Sigma-Octanus IV before the fleet arrived would have had me on the edge of my seat had I been sat down, and when they executed what became known later on as the Keyes' Loop, it made me want to cheer; I had to fight to keep my enthusiasm inside or else I'd have looked like a lunatic.  I've got just over a couple of hours left so I'll get that listened to on the train to Durham on Thursday.  I just hope the next book in the series, Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz, is as good as this one.

1 comment:

  1. Gosh I love your attention to detail.

    Obviously you too.

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