The Kiss 'o Death! That's All I Need!

[thehefner]

I got my Mom into Stephen King's DARK TOWER, which she just finished last week. She's been listening to the whole saga on tape, really getting into it, and at some part in the final book, she had to pull off to the side of the road and sob. She couldn't even go back to work for a half hour till she calmed down and stopped looking so puffy from crying. Now she's absolutely dying for me to finish reading it (I have the last two left to go!) so we can talk about it.

But first, I need to finish ENDER'S GAME. Because it's seemingly everybody's favorite novel of all time, or pretty well up there. Did everyone but me of my generation read it in high school or something? Well, it's pretty good, but I'm halfway in, and it's not, like, monumental or anything. It's better than Orson Scott Card's ULTIMATE IRON MAN, in any case.

It's always hard coming into something that's crazy hyped. Like, every third day someone else on LJ seems to be raving about THE PRESTIGE, and at this point, it had really be something bloody special by the time I finally do see it.

Ah well. Thanks to fiveseconddelay, I have now mastered the perfect Manhattan. I now know the difference between a Bart Simpson Manhattan and a "Legs" Manhattan, if you know what I mean. I think I may have found my signature Heffie drink! I may well need one after I do mass auditions for Actor's Center tomorrow in, oh, nine hours from now.

Comments

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

I read it when I was twelve or thirteen and I don't remember it at all. I don't recall hating it, but there's nothing particularly delightful that sticks out in my mind.
I haven't seen "The Prestige". Wolverine and Batman have had better fights.