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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 01:33 am
 I watched the finale of True Blood, if anyone is interested in chatting about that.

I also finished The Lightning Thief today, which I greatly enjoyed. I reminded me a lot of early Harry Potter (in a good way) and I enjoyed it enough to put a hold on the next volume. (I hope it gets darker as Percy gets older, like HP did.) I loved all the mythology, Percy was a great pov character (and I liked how his dyslexia was described), Annabeth was awesome, Grover was annoying, they treated Percy's mother like a character in her own right, and not just as The Mom. My one major complaint was that I could really tell it was written for 12-year-olds. (Grover, in particular, was a character would only exist and would only behave as he did in a children's book. By that I mean I found it ridiculously that he would have been given the task he was.) Also, I totally want Annabeth to get Cybernus as a pet at some point. That would be awesome.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010 10:59 am (UTC)
Like, Claudine, who is the most fluffy happy shiny book fairy, also slaughters her way through the ranks and laughed as she crushed goblins foes beneath her heels? And gave the person who killed her sister a five hour start so she could hunt her down like an animal.

See, I got bored and stopped reading the book where that happens before what you mentioned happened, so I all I got was their elitist attitude towards humans which a.) bored me and b.) have seen that dynamic for fairies over and over again. So moving to ridiculous and boring fairies on the show doesn't actually feel like a switch in dynamics in a way that changes my opinions about the fairies.

C-come on, you have to admit that Niall going 'OMG BABY'S FIRST KILL :D :D :D' and Sookie going 'WTF WTF' was funny.

I will admit that.