Stefani - SpelingExpirt’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2012)

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Thanks for the encouragement guys! I will definitely get my hands on later trades when I can.

I really miss Ape Escape for ps1! I used to play that and Lucky Luke non stop.

Thanks! I've always been very torn by YA books, sometimes (Hunger Games) they can be imaginative and not condescending of the aimed age group but other times (Twilight) they can just be a steaming pile of crap!
I think the Veronica Roth ones are certainly closer to Hunger Games in imagination and style but they also seem to be following the same basic trilogy formula that defined the Hunger Games series which seems to be a growing trend in YA dystopias.

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I've only read the first volume, finished yesterday (my 99th book of the year!) and it was ok. I've heard it gets better so I will stick with it and catch up eventually.
I didn't really like Jack but I lived Bigby and Snow. The Pinocchio reference made me laugh a lot. Other than that I thought it was pretty average, I could tell the plot twist a mile off and didn't really like Rose as a character.

I finished this a couple days ago but couldn't post because I was visiting family.

As far as my first experience of Philip K Dick went, I hated the first three or four chapters and almost gave up, I started reading A Scanner Darkly instead and found the first couple of chapters of that so wonderful and confusing as he'll hat I decided to out it aside and go back to Androids. Overall I loved the book but thought it could have benefited from being less confusing. I loved the ending because I think the best dystopias are open ended.

Happy New Year!

My goal was 50 and I read 95! I'm going to aim for 75 next year because I'll be starting my dissertation and won't have time for too many books. Oh and I'm about to finish another book with hopefully another one after that. If I'm really geeky I might try to hit 100 in less than a week.

Update: I have just finished my 96th book and worked out that out of all of those, 52 were novels and the remaining 44 were graphic novels, which when you consider I only really started getting into them three or four months ago is pretty decent!

I completely forgot about hand held gaming! I've always been in love with my GameBoy, mostly Pokemon and Sims Urbz. I got a DS a few years ago and although I like it, I tend to pass it over in favour of the GameBoy.

As a kid I was always a PlayStation kid when the first one came out and I religiously played games like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. I didn't get to play any console games during my teens though because I was at a crazy school (think Harry Potter crossed with the army) but I did have a laptop and for a couple of years I was addicted to Neverwinter Nights. When I had to get a new laptop the game wouldn't work on the new one and I've been gutted abut that for years!

When all my friends and family were buying PS3s and Xbox 360s I still didn't have a console (or much money) so I bought a friends original Xbox off her along with 33 games for £30 and I have been in love with the Xbox ever since. I'm so glad I finally have a 360 and can start playing new games. I plan on getting Skyrim soon.

I'll get to the books but I've got a few months until fantasy theme month.

I've been meaning to post for a while now, I'm finally all caught up and can't wait until season three. (Haven't read the books but plan to eventually)

I wish Daenerys's dragons were ageing a little quicker, her storming King's Landing with three fully grown dragons would make for amazing tv. Dany is my favourite character, I've loved her development so far.

I want to smack Joffrey in the face everytime he comes on screen, he's quite a good villain in the 'makes me sick to the stomach' way. I think Sansa will get better, she's already beginning to understand how vunerable she is and I think all of the advice Cersei has given her has sunk in.

I love Arya, she's my favourite Stark by far. Tyrion is my favourite Lannister, he's hilarious and cunning and I think the horrible way his family has treated him over the years means that he is super tough.

It was definitely one hell of a way to end the series and I am definitely coming back for more! Other highlights for me are Cersei, Varys, Littlefinger and Jacqen. I also loved everything that happened in Qarth.

She really is Chimney :)

I will thanks :) I get myself killed too easily in Dead Rising because I don't stop killing them long enough to look at my health!

I've had one of the original xboxs for years and I'm most addicted to Knights of the Old Republic, Halo and Burnout Revenge.

I finally got an Xbox 360 yesterday (my girlfriend rocks) and so far I've only played Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Dead Rising 2 and I love them both so much. I can see many hours of happy gaming to follow. Yet to play that I got yesterday are; Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Bioshock 2, Deus Ex and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Rising.

'"I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time and this is my wife"

I hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday. We're you spoilt? I certainly was, my girlfriend got me an Xbox and lots of cool games so my life will be taken over by that.

I've not done the one a week for a few weeks but I'm still all up for it!

Anyone watch the Christmas special? I thought I'd hate the new titles, the TARDIS redesign and Clara but I was swept off my feet very quickly. I'm very in love with it all. Madame Vestra should get a spin-off. The next season looks so good.

My first manga was Aoi Hana, read it because I quite liked the anime. My second (literally just finished the first volume) was Vampire Knight, Volume 1 I quite liked it, will pick up the second volume when I next go to the library just to see where it goes.

Fan outrage means that they retracted their firing! Gail Simone announced it on Twitter. Go fans!