therealmarajade

First of all, belated thanks go to julie_weasley and priwskywalker for their Christmas cards. I was not too Christmas-ey this year, that's why I didn't send any cards. Sorry guys, I will try to be more excited next year.

I know I've been MIA this past few days, but first, it was Christmas, although a quiet - and thankfully also peaceful - one spend home with my mother and sister, and then, there was book reading.

Since there was a movie adaptation of Eragon going out this Christmas, I decided to buy the book and read it a few weeks ago. Midway through it I got bored by it, but eventually finished, saw the movie and bought book 2, Eldest.

The book is NOT OMGTHATWASAWESOME and it's NOT a total FAILURE either, it's just...ok. That probably means a lot, becase as rjann always says, I either LOVE stuff or HATE them, and this was one of the few things that was simply ok. Yes, it's a fantasy book, and one with dragons, but there was a few things that annoyed me. Mainly, the fact that it feels to me as a copy of various other fandoms/stories/books/movies. Come on! It's like reading a LOTR fanfic! AND I have never read any of those famous dragons books, but I'm sure if any of you have - starpiper you read some, didn't you? - you could point out similarities to those as well! Just read the following (incomplete, for sure) list and tell me if you agree with me or not!

( Similarites between Eragon, LOTR and SW. Spoilers up to the middle of book 2, Eldest )

The second book is better than the first - at least so far - because *gasp* of Roran's side story. I love secondary characters! And his, Katrina's, and Carvahall's story are very interesting!

And the movie was enjoyable - they shortened Eragon and Brom's journey, which to me was the boring part with they going around in circles and solving nothing, and I liked what they did with ( spoiler inside ) but not so much what they did with Murtagh. And Arya is completely off character. But it's entertaining. :)

Yesterday we had a very nice day - although tiring for someone so, er, "well fit" XD as me! We went to our Navy Museum, visited a submarine, a ship and our Fiscal Island - it no longer servers as a fiscalization place - it's a museum now, completely restored - but it used to be when Brazil was a monarchy.

Today I had a barbecue with my coleagues from work, and - as always when I'm in a group of people - our conversation ended up being about movies. We talked about X3 and Superman Returns, and how much I think they will be disasters - well, after seeing this, I'm not so sure about X3, but I'm mostly sure.

One movie led to another and we ended up talking about SW. I, of course, mentioned that I was a huge fan, which prompted one of our first-year residents to say, "Did you know that the story continues beyond the movies, that there are books about it?"

XD

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ROTFLMAO!

Poor kid. He never saw it coming. He ended up bombarded with tons of info about the EU. :)