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Media Roundup
Jun. 22nd, 2008 01:43 pmSo I've finished a bunch of books and watched a movie in the past week or so. :)
Starfighters of Adumar was the last book in the X-Wing series of novels, this one by Aaron Allston. It was, like the rest of them, pretty fun to read. In this case, the action focused entirely on Wedge, Tycho, Wes, and Hobbie as they undertook a diplomatic mission to a planet that adulated pilots above all else. Very good themes of what does a warrior do when he looks up one day and realizes he has no personal life, where does honor come from - interally or externally, and what a culture that takes duels of honor to the extreme might look like. And the action was pretty well written. :)
Traitor, by Matthew Stover. Someone needs to explain to me why I hadn't read this book earlier. I mean, damn. The entire book narrowly focuses on three characters - Jacen Solo, Vergere, and (in the end) Ganner Rhysode. Its not a galaxy spanning drama like most Star Wars but is, instead, an intensely personal account of Jacen Solo's capture by the Yuuzhan Vong, his tutelage by the strange Force user Vergere, and his discovery that he doesn't need to know who he is. This novel was absolutely terrific - if the rest of Stover's writing is like this, I wish it had been him writing the Anakin Solo parts of the first trilogy. It would have been awesome.
Get Smart. Went out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jilliko and hiroyuki_samson last night to see it. It was terrific. They actually took Maxwell Smart in an entirely different direction than I expected. To whit - he wasn't a moron. Oh, he wasn't necessarily a great secret agent. But he was smart, observant, and at least had the vaguest notion what he was doing. Which made all the myriad moments when reality was entirely different than the book-learning he had achieved absolutely hilarious.
Heh. I think I read too much. Or something.
Starfighters of Adumar was the last book in the X-Wing series of novels, this one by Aaron Allston. It was, like the rest of them, pretty fun to read. In this case, the action focused entirely on Wedge, Tycho, Wes, and Hobbie as they undertook a diplomatic mission to a planet that adulated pilots above all else. Very good themes of what does a warrior do when he looks up one day and realizes he has no personal life, where does honor come from - interally or externally, and what a culture that takes duels of honor to the extreme might look like. And the action was pretty well written. :)
Traitor, by Matthew Stover. Someone needs to explain to me why I hadn't read this book earlier. I mean, damn. The entire book narrowly focuses on three characters - Jacen Solo, Vergere, and (in the end) Ganner Rhysode. Its not a galaxy spanning drama like most Star Wars but is, instead, an intensely personal account of Jacen Solo's capture by the Yuuzhan Vong, his tutelage by the strange Force user Vergere, and his discovery that he doesn't need to know who he is. This novel was absolutely terrific - if the rest of Stover's writing is like this, I wish it had been him writing the Anakin Solo parts of the first trilogy. It would have been awesome.
Get Smart. Went out with
jilliko and hiroyuki_samson last night to see it. It was terrific. They actually took Maxwell Smart in an entirely different direction than I expected. To whit - he wasn't a moron. Oh, he wasn't necessarily a great secret agent. But he was smart, observant, and at least had the vaguest notion what he was doing. Which made all the myriad moments when reality was entirely different than the book-learning he had achieved absolutely hilarious. Heh. I think I read too much. Or something.
