darkling sky

Dark Materials I read this series the end of last year then promptly went out and bought the BBC radio broadcast. While the radio series was good It didn’t touch on the emotion the books had, and was perhaps more aimed at it’s target Young Adult audience. However the books are a brilliant Trilogy and now one of my favourites. I read an interview with Pullman and he’s thinking of broadening some of the characters, like the witches, and develop the epic further. I can’t wait! What I'm reading Now... Fantasy: At the moment I'm reading an old favourite. The Fionavar Taperstry by Guy Gavriel Kay. Three books, easy and fast to read, The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road . While this series may seem like your run of the mill High Fantasy formula, Kay’s books stand out. He is a master at manipulating ones emotions and connecting you to the pain of his characters. I have yet to read these books and not cry, or at the very least get choked up. These books are all about sacrifice. Another Book of Kay's I would highly recommend is Tigana Science Fiction: If you like sci fi and haven’t read Iain M Banks yet, do yourself a favour and READ. Banks is brilliant. I highly recommend Banks and his World of the Culture. I am gradually working my way thro all Banks books both Sci Fi and His general Fiction. At the moment I’m reading Use of Weapons the most emotional of the Sci Fi selection I have read yet. It’s not and easy book to read, it’s complicated, non liner and often painful, and a long way from the fast passed hi tech space opera Banks first Two books ( Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games) orbited around. This book takes you thro the dark and haunting world of Cheradenine Zakalwe and his work for the Culture. He is the Covert Ops of the future. While doing the Culture’s dirty work, we are entwined in Zakalwe’s personal agenda and pain. I highly recommend this book, it is by far the best Science Fiction book I have read to date. While I have not yet finished this book, but will do so no doubt in the upcoming days, I have a feeling the ending is going to make me want to kick something hard. Any book that evokes strong emotions from me is a good book. Dark

Has an urge to listen to Kylie Minogue, ABBA and The Bee Gees

2-6-9- ~ The Goose drank wine ~ and the monkey chewed tobaco on the street car line ~ The line broke .......... and the moneky got a choke ~ and they all went to Heaven in a lil row boat ~~ CLAP CLAP ~~ CLAP CLAP ~~ put yer right hand in yer left and and yer left hand in yer right and ~CLAP CLAP~............... erm the voices made me do it... really... they did...

in the christmas spirit The Carol of The Old Ones. Look to the sky, way up on high There in the night stars are now right. Eons have passed: now then at last Prison walls break, Old Ones awake! They will return: mankind will learn New kinds of fear when they are here. They will reclaim all in their name; Hopes turn to black when they come back. Ignorant fools, mankind now rules Where they ruled then: it's theirs again Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning Bode a returning season of doom Scary scary scary scary solstice Very very very scary solstice Up from the sea, from underground Down from the sky, they're all around They will return: mankind will learn New kinds of fear when they are here Look to the sky, way up on high There in the night stars are now right. Eons have passed: now then at last Prison walls break, Old Ones awake! Madness will reign, terror and pain Woes without end where they extend. Ignorant fools, mankind now rules Where they ruled then: it's theirs again Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning Bode a returning season of doom Scary scary scary scary solstice Very very very scary solstice Up from the sea, from underground Down from the sky, they're all around. Fear (Look to the sky, way up on high There in the night stars now are right) They will return.

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