Lord of the Rings kjem i ny norsk omsetjing til jul. Eg er ikkje åleine om å meina at dette er stor stas. Boka kjem ut på Tiden norsk forlag.
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A pleasant surprise in today’s mail: Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management. Remarkable. I was expecting transpolar mail to take up to three weeks, not three days. I think I’ll break out the good beer for this one. Forth to enjoy. Oh, and I do believe I’ll keep this beauty outside my BookCrossing bookshelf. Mine!
Ok, I’ll just omg Knutdag. It’s … amusing. I’ll read the lot when I’m not at a seminar supposed to be learning about web services.
Schlock Mercenary, one of my four favourite webcomics, is finally coming out in paper. I missed the special first-twohundred-preorder, but I will have my book.
I’m not going to introduce the comic to you, because that’s been done better onsite. I’m looking forward to this little bit of goodness. It doesn’t start with the first strip, because the art sucked royally in those days. And the stories weren’t as good. The book starts a bit later when the stories are good and the art is … better.
Fair enough, Mr. Tayler is not the best artist I’ve seen, but he’s far from crap. And now, a few more words of praise: The SF universe is large, good, fairly consistent and has nonhumanoid aliens. Mr. Tayler delivers the goods: On-schedule daily updates, not a single fille strip for nearly six years.
Which implies no stick figures and no Shirt Guy Tom. No stupid cliches overparodied to death like GPF and Sluggy Freelance sometimes lapse into, like they have now.
Problem: Utah release is 20th of May. Meaning I’ll have the book in mid-June, at best. Stupid cross-Atlantic mail service.
Update 2006-05-23: Bookie arrived already. Whee!
Så, det kjem visst ei ny Harry Potter-bok straks. Tumtitum. Burde eg lesa om igjen dei gamle, tru? Er jo to år sidan sist, så det blir ein del detaljar som har forsvunne.
Og det blir jo etterkvart ganske interessant korleis filmskaparane skal takla at skodespelarane blir gamle dobbelt så fort som Harry. Dessutan burde det koma meir film snart, dei ligg jo langt bak. Med denne boka blir det tre å ta igjen, og sjølv med ein film i året klarar dei ikkje det viss det blir to år til bok sju.
Når det er sagt: Eg synest ikkje Harry Potter er særleg til litteratur. Pøtt sann. Det er det ikkje meint å vera heller. Det er derimot ei knakande god forteljing, med tre-fire personar og ein drøss pappfigurar på ymse sider i kampen mellom snill og slem.
At soga om Bone er samla i eitt bind er opplagt ein God ting. Den påstanden held sjølv om ikkje alle sidesogene er med.
Went to the Lions book sale. Bought the Decameron (Norwegian translation, though there was an English one, too) and various other stuff. Swept the shelves for Wodehouse. Most of the stuff is unfit for bookcrossing, though, so it’ll likely just collect dust in my bookshelf.
Slepte fri ein del bøker på Blindern i løpet av dagen. Ei vart teken nesten med ein gong, resten vert spanande.
