i don't know if i'd do the same rereading it, but there was at least one whole chapter of the final book in the series Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams that i skipped due to how boring i found it--though, To Green Angel Tower is a supremely long book either way, so there was plenty left to read.
to continue with reading, i've read through a good chunk of At the Mountains of Madness (though haven't yet finished it), and so far i find it to be my least favorite of the Lovecraft stories i've read. given that the unknown (and unknowable) is the main thing that makes his stories spooky, At the Mountains of Madness way over-explains... just about everything about the Old Ones. really takes the mystique and strangeness out of them almost completely, for me.
for games... while i don't think Mass Effect: Andromeda is in any way as bad as people think (to me it's a decent game, mediocre at worst), it really failed to grab me. it has a lot of the things i disliked about the gameplay in the first game, without a story that grabbed me the way the first one did (possibly because it's not introducing anything that i found as cool as the aliens we've already seen--the Angara are cool but the other new things fail to excite me at all). that i like the squadmates/crew members doesn't counter the fact i can't get into the game enough to keep playing it (at least for now).
movies/tv... this might be an unpopular opinion, but while it had good moments, i didn't like Serenity at all, especially not as a conclusion to Firefly. i was never a fan of River Tam (too often see characters with pasts/issues like hers used as an excuse for them to be "weird"/"quirky" in a way i find totally devoid of charm), but the fact the movie is mainly about her (and about her being overpowered), really killed it for me.
to continue with reading, i've read through a good chunk of At the Mountains of Madness (though haven't yet finished it), and so far i find it to be my least favorite of the Lovecraft stories i've read. given that the unknown (and unknowable) is the main thing that makes his stories spooky, At the Mountains of Madness way over-explains... just about everything about the Old Ones. really takes the mystique and strangeness out of them almost completely, for me.
for games... while i don't think Mass Effect: Andromeda is in any way as bad as people think (to me it's a decent game, mediocre at worst), it really failed to grab me. it has a lot of the things i disliked about the gameplay in the first game, without a story that grabbed me the way the first one did (possibly because it's not introducing anything that i found as cool as the aliens we've already seen--the Angara are cool but the other new things fail to excite me at all). that i like the squadmates/crew members doesn't counter the fact i can't get into the game enough to keep playing it (at least for now).
movies/tv... this might be an unpopular opinion, but while it had good moments, i didn't like Serenity at all, especially not as a conclusion to Firefly. i was never a fan of River Tam (too often see characters with pasts/issues like hers used as an excuse for them to be "weird"/"quirky" in a way i find totally devoid of charm), but the fact the movie is mainly about her (and about her being overpowered), really killed it for me.
not to mention it completely destroyed whatever made the Reavers intimidating or scary, like, at all.
and i really don't like the whole "psychic" angle--the series was mostly grounded sci-fi, making this element stand out to me as being way out of place. that and it excuses behavior from River i don't think should be excused (attacking Jayne before he'd done anything to her rather than when he actually wronged her).
and i really don't like the whole "psychic" angle--the series was mostly grounded sci-fi, making this element stand out to me as being way out of place. that and it excuses behavior from River i don't think should be excused (attacking Jayne before he'd done anything to her rather than when he actually wronged her).
