100 book quotes #10

"What? Haven't any of you ever studied game theory? If you can't win, you do the next best thing: you make sure your enemy can't win, either. It works more often than you'd think, because it changes the parameters of the game without your opponent's permission. Often even without their knowledge. You're not playing to win any longer. You just want to keep them from winning, and that's a lot harder to stop."

~ "Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon" by Matt Forbeck & Jeff Grubb

I don't even know why but this quote resonated deeply with me. I've always loved books and movies that are about tactics, about outsmarting your enemy - and if it's not possible, taking them with you when you go down. There's just something about this determination to make your enemy pay...

Well, hello there!

Dylan O'Brien in a photo shoot for Da Man *_*

Book #41

"Ghosts of Ascalon (Guild Wars #1)" by Matt Forbeck & Jeff Grubb

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

3.5 stars. Based on the Guild Wars RPG. And much better written than, for example, "Assasssin's Creed" by Oliver Bowden. The characters are funny, intelligent and capable, and as a reader, I liked spending time in their company. It was an easy read that gave you the good feeling of time well spent. I also liked how the authors handled exposition, making the characters tell each other stories during their march to Ascalon City. I wouldn't mind visiting them again. Well done, Mr. Forbeck and Mr. Grubb, well done.

RDJ singing!

Why did no one tell me that Robert Downey Jr. can SING! And HOW! Wow. When I first heard the song, I thought it was Sting singing. Awesome!

Podfic rec: Inception

"Edith" by ethrosdemon, read by anatsuno | Arthur/Eames | The pet pig story. | 44min.

"I think your pig is giving me a gimlet eye, what did you tell him about me?"

"She. Her name's Edith." Arthur's just loose enough to not feel self-conscious about being a tad defensive over the honor of his pig.

"Of course it is. Hello, Edith, charmed. Your bristles are quite fetching."

LOL! Arthur with a pet piglet!