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I really like playing an Aran on MS: The skills are good, I love the combo thing, and it has good quests- it actually makes you feel like you're accomplishing something for the little Maple world rather than being a lowly messenger boy or girl for the stupid characters who are too lazy to get out of their town and quest for what they need. ;)
I also love that all skills, even the basic hit, are mob skills. Makes for faster leveling if you're funded, though now a days in MS "funded" means billions of billions of mesos. Man, I ran around tjhe marketplaceyetserday and everything was ten times more expensive than it used to be!! I couldn't afford anything. I used to think of myself as "wealthy" (not rich) back then with 10 million, now I need 10 million for the most basic high level stuff... ah well. Guess I'll be hunting for my items rather than buying them!
Anyway, I'm so into my Aran, I got it to 30 in two days. lol, that's a FIRST. The faster I got a character to 30 (which is second job advancement) has been like, one and a half weeks or so. XD Of course, unlike with my other characters I did fund this one a little. One million mesos bought me clothes (and scrolls to pump the clothes a bit) up to level 30 and plenty of pots- which I really need, because Arans pot like fucking crazy. You spend MP and take HP hits like nuts.
Ah, to be a warrior... but with faster leveling and lower hp..................
Anyway, you gotta quest for your skills too, you don't just "get" them out of thin air (not most, anyway), so it's kinda fun. I'm on lvl 36 with around 40 or 50 now, so in one more level I'll be fighting the mini boss again and getting my new skill, Combo Drain. i want to be 50 already for the ring *o*
Here, I leave you with a screenie from yesterday:
Hmmm, someday, I'll level poor FyePyon (I/L Wizard) as well.
Perelandra: Un Viaje a Venus / Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
If this book was ANY slower, it would start going backwards and unwrite itself.
There is only so much detail and description one can take in a book before you start counting how many pages to the next chapter (and then how many more to the end, and then all together stop trying to picture all the annoying descriptions and just fall asleep).
Descriptions that, by the way, go around and around and around and around the same damn thing over and over.
admit it, by the end, I skimmed through until there was actually some action and dialogue.
Also, if they were all up in arms about how Aslan in Narnia = Jesus, I don't know why they're not whining the same about this space trilogy that just reeks religion out of every pore 100000x times than Narnia.
The only reason why I'll read the final book is that I already went through the first two. It can't possibly get any worse, even if it IS longer.
I recommend this one... I recommend you STAY AWAY from this one.
Mas Alla Del Planeta Silencioso by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Slow for my personal taste, but I guess you can't travel to a new -alien-world in all senses, without describing it thoroughly.I did, however, enjoy the book despite finding it a bit sloww- the story was good, I liked the main character well enough, and the last chapters (in which he meets with Oyarsa) are actually quite funny and definitelyy my favorite part of the book.
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I spent my time reading The Chronicles of Narnia since last Sunday. They're a fast, easy read, clearly books for children, but not entirely bad for adults because of it.I'm not going to go on a detailed description of what I thought of each book, but try to generalize a little. On the writing style, I was a little annoyed on the way the author kept addressing the reader, but it wasn't a setback. It was also a little annoying how he kept repeating things like you couldn't remember it from two pages back (it's stupid to lock yourself in a closet, things can't be described, etc).I really enjoyed the first book, while it wasn't the one that had the most adventure in it- I think it was the best of the whole lot and a great introduction. I loved that I could read how Narnia began.Second and third were really good too, but from there on they began to decline in quality. The next three were okay-ish, while the last one had a decent first half and an ending (or really, from halfway on) that made me go "Er... ok... ?" and put it down with a feeling of a rushed, senseless, pointless ending.I read somewhere around that this is supposed to be Christian children story, which I guess it's where everyone got that Aslan = Jesus idea, but quite frankly, I didn't see it.Maybe because I didn't read it from a "Christian point of view.", or I just didn't give a damn about it and took Aslan for what he seems to be: Some kind of random deity from a book. And random deity do things their way, get involved when they want, are good/bad as they are supposed to be, etc. I saw no particular parallel anywhere.Overall, I think it's a good read for everyone- something all should read at least once, at least the first 6 books; you can most definitely skip the seventh.
Individual Ratings:
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
El Maestro Del Mal/The Teacher of Evil by Jim Hougan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Very nice, catching story. The title seems a bit of an odd choice- exaggerated perhaps, but I enjoyed the story and characters in it; I liked the writing style too, even if I'm not much of a fan of first person.
I would have liked a less "open" ending, one that told me more of what happened after, but I guess it was unnecessary.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I got the book because I'd kinda liked the movie, and figured the book would be better.
The book is SO different from the movie- that it almost seems like they tell the life of two different persons- if only they didn't have the same name.
It was quite refreshing and most interesting to read the book, I found the story quite catching, if a little slow at times, and loved the story overall, definitely enjoyed it more than the movie.
Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence E. Joseph
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The book in an on itself was ok, if you're into that kind of stuff. I'm a bit of a sucker for prophecies and end of the world, so I was eager to read a book about it.
It was dubbed as "An investigation into civilization's end" ("a study" in my translated copy to Spanish), and it made me feel a bit mislead when I started reading and I found that more than a study or investigation, it was a journal of trips with scientific bits and musings thrown in about 2012.
Ok?
This book was too personal about the guy's life for me to enjoy fully.
If I wanted to read about the author's life, I'd find his biography/credentials/blog. No offense, I just like my scientific books to be scientific, that's all.
The scientific parts, citations and theories I enjoyed plenty, but the book itself I felt was boring and dragged on boring topics- like a cab driver's praying or how the author wanted to write an autobiography; personally, I think he just wrote part of it on the book.
I say if you like scientific books about 2012, or at least more "serious" ones, avoid this one.
If you don't care (or rather, prefer) reading more about the author and his opinions than about 2012 itself, then you'll love it.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have to say I'm surprised once again at the amount of bad reviews The Historian got. Perhaps it's because they expected a more horror-based book, which this was not.
I also read some vague comparisons with The Da Vinci Code, which I can see on the matter that they both seem to be scholarly/research based books; though personally, I loved The Historian while I couldn't even stand reading past the first chapter of The Da Vinci Code.
As for my personal opinions on The Historian, I found the book fascinating.
It's certainly not a horror book, although it does have it's moments of tension. I was very fond of the style of writing, and found most descriptions (although sometimes a little too long near the end) only added to the charm of the book, it made me feel like I was truly traveling right there with them.
I was so into the book that I almost felt disappointed to reach the center of my copy and not find a print of the infamous dragon.
Now, I admit, (and here be spoilers... )
Dracula's whole apparent idea of blissful afterlife by having a massive library (cataloged), and giving clues to find his final resting place -while not wanting them to find his final resting place- was indeed a little "huh?" inducing. The ending was a little bit disappointing in that sense.
It was also required quite a bit of imagination to get past the fact that everyone seemed to remember years and months-old conversations word by word well enough to reproduce them in their letters, without taking (or hardly taking) notes.
But all the same, the whole research and investigation, the letters, etc., they were all fantastic and certainly, in my opinion, made up for those points I found weak.
Oh. My. God. Well, I guess I did well to imagine a penis with a flower, lol, it wasn't purple prose on THAT bit of the description, after all.So, Wraeththu penis (penii?) ARE really multicolored... petal.... things lol. I can't, I can't imagine! I think that's good. Anyhow, my review...
Wraeththu by Storm Constantine
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
What can I say about this book? Ah! It took me long, very long to get through it, because the first book had not ended too well -or should I said, had a confusing ending (was it happy or sad...?), and I'm a sucker for happy endings.
I think I'll start by pointing out I truly did like this book. Had a hard time deciding between four and five stars- I wanted four and a half, really.
The story on itself was great, fantastic in writing, the setting- not really something completely new and out of the ordinary, but interesting to read; the characters were all very interesting and deeply thought, though I could only get myself to truly care for two, and they were not even the main characters.
I was very interested at the subject of hermaphrodites, though I must say, I got a little tired of being told each har they met was super pretty and perfect- yes, we get it, all har are beautiful and perfect!
I didn't really fancy the whole pregnancy thing, perhaps because I still saw them as very male-like, and as such, it all reeked of "mpreg".
Two things threw me off the book, but I guess in the overall, they weren't so annoying that it made me dislike it entirely. (I mean, I did read it through and liked it plenty, after all)
The first was that the Wraeththu were a "very sexual race" which means, put plainly, "I love YOU, but I'll have sex with just about everyone I come across."
Sorry, but I like my romance romantic and faithful.
The second was the reiteration of the ambiguous endings.
Were they happy? Were they sad? I can't decide!! It's driving me insane! The second book was the one that ended the best, and the third book, gosh, guess it should have been a happy ending, yet it was sad in a way. Ah, bittersweet, like life itself, I guess? I find myself torn to think on whether I enjoyed the ending... In a way, I think I didn't, I feel it should've developed a bit differently- I feel Calanthe should have said, "to hell! Pell, I love you, but it can't be." and started a whole new life.
Ah well, I enjoyed the book, overall; though I had some visualization problems.
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