No I'd definitely say it was absolute trash. It was like an even shallower harry potter without the wands and with even less in-depth characters.

Perhaps overrated by 14 year old fangirls. Not so much the rest of society.

Yeah, I never understood the hype of any of those Harry Potter, Twilight Series stuff. They need to get kids to read the classics young so that they don't waste their time on that stuff.

Thank you. There was no depth to those characters at all.

And right now I'm rereading Vonnegut's Galapagos.

I never got into any of the "magic" series. I always thought they were really stupid, and everyone condemned me for this in elementary and middle school. Then this past summer I was in this little, private owned bookstore checking out some Ogden Nash they had on the porch... and I went in to pay for it, and a 50 year old woman was talking about how much she loved the Twilight series as she was checking out with Eclipse or whatever it's called out of that **** of a series.


But uh. I just finished Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (collected essays, short stories, and other pieces) previously unpublished, by Bukowski. Now I'm on Post Office. I get to do my English project on it. Chhyeah boy.

Well, Harry Potter wasn't THAT good either...

That's what we're saying, yeah. Haha.

I just read Paolini's Eldest. Now I'm reading CS Friedman's Crown of Shadows

After finishing the Illiad I was inspired to have another read of Illium by Dan Simmons, and I can say that I'm much more impressed on this go through. I don't think I was old enough to really appreciate first time round.
It's a brilliant book, boundlessly inventive, intelligent and highly conceptual Science Fiction.
The basic premise is a modern historian has been resurrected by Zeus to observe the battle of troy and make sure it follows the course of history.

I'm definitely going to grab the sequel.

I really liked Eragon and Eldest when they came out, but there was such a gap between their release and the new book's, that I had to reread ELdest, and I realized how bad it was.