unexpectedly satisfying!

[mimesere]

So, everyone and their mom -- I think literally -- has been telling me, "Oh, Sheila, read Lois McMaster Bujold, you'll really like her 'cause of x, y, z, and the other nine million things what you like that you have rambled on about forever." And so, failing to find the first Vorkosigan book, I picked up Paladin of Souls, found it immensely dull, and then promptly never picked up another book by her. I mean, I tried other things, like, uh, not-the-first-book-in-the-Vorkosigan-series, found it dull, and then failed to pick it up again.

Then, in a fit of Oh God, I'm Bored and That Robin Hobb Book Made Me Want to Punch Someone in the Face and I've Already Read Both Vampire Assassins for the CIA books, I picked up The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, liked it immensely, picked up The Sharing Knife: Legacy, liked it a little less, and was still utterly consumed by boredom. So then, thinking maybe my bad experience with Paladin of Souls was because I'm a freak who HAS TO READ THE FIRST BOOK OMG, I picked up Curse of Chalion and I liked it! I mean, pretty much it had the stuff I liked. Like good people! kickass women! interesting musings on the nature of religion! queerness! politics! sacrifice! more sacrifice! the bizarre twistings of fate! honorable people doing the best they can to walk the edge between cool pragmatism and integrity!

And so I still have Paladin of Souls to read and Amy told me to read Nancy Farmer and it is all pretty much entirely with the yay. Plus MCR is maybe touring the US again (take a BREAK guys, geez, except you know, California is pretty awesome and KROQ thinks you all are pretty nifty. Maybe you can drag Muse back out here! Awesome, y/y/mfy?)

Oooh, ooh, also I picked up the new Lupe Fiasco album. I am very excited.

In conclusion: Gunn = awesome. Discuss. Where by "discuss," I mean, "feel free to leave odes to his awesomeness in comments. Or write fic. You know, whatever strikes your fancy."

Comments

[vampyreranger.livejournal.com]

gunn rocks! And he's hot!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

It's very true!

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Gunn is like a zillion times more awesome than Captain Awesome!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee! He is! Except...now I kind of want Gunn meets Captain Awesome fic. Hmmmm.

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU KNOW WHO GUNN NEEDS TO MEET? Monica from Heroes. Especially as the spoilers indicate what I guess was supposed to be her Batman-type arc from the second half of the season, and which fell victim to the strike, is finally going to happen and she will get the awesomeness that they seemed to be promising.

I mean, I suspect Gunn would be more of a Superman fan than a Batman one (well, I mean, neither of them is his favorite of the DC universe, but I think if pressed to choose he would probably go with Superman, although I think he probably has a secret love for Wonder Woman that he doesn't let on because, hello, he's a dude) but. Superhero!

Basically, Gunn and Monica need to meet, and be adorable and awesome and run around saving people. It would be epic.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOH. I THINK YOU SHOULD WRITE THIS.

(and Gunn...yeah, would be more of a Supes than a Bats fan, if only for the class thing and how Batman is a giant douche who figured out a way to kill all his friends JUST IN CASE, but mostly he'd LOVE Black Lightning like cake.)

[nyagosstar.livejournal.com]

This was the only thing i could think of so he's my sad little haiku:

J. August Richards,
why do you not guest spot on
Torchwood? I am sad.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*giggle* It is an excellent haiku! Full marks!

[anonymous_sibyl]

Oh, Gunn, you are so fun,
from you I would never run,
because you are fun
Gunn.

As odes go, it isn't quite to a grecian urn or anything, but, um, it's heartfelt?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*g* Pfft, grecian urns are overrated.