The AznGeek

Posted by psych at July 25th, 2007

Yeah, minus my Deathly ‘hellos’ comment back a few posts, I was waiting pretty anxiously for this. Anxiously as well as obnoxiously. Er… just anxious. I like the way both words seem interconnected because of those few letter differences. Sweet book. Oh my god. Oh my god. I read nonstop from the moment I got home. On my bed. In my chair. Lying on my floor. I have never ever read something so fast in my life. I forced self control seeing as this was the last book ever. Slow. Well, i finished it by 1am. so thats 11am-1am. around 12 hours i guess notwithstanding the 2 hours that was dinner. Contemplated to go the ‘I’m reading in public but I don’t give a damn just finish eating your food already’ route but I don’t take kindly to being stared at. Mothers might even point and say something like, “Eh.. Sam, ah. See that boy there. Reading Harry Potter la!” and the boy says something like, “Ya la.. I told you I wanted to take the book here!” and she’d reply curtly, “You can’t read while you have dinner. Now finish up.” In the boy’s mind? “KNNB SO UNFAIR. First my Pokemon cards now book also cannot ><”

Aight. No more pretend arguments in my head. They always end up like that. The book was amazing. In between my brow being furrowed concentrating on whats happening in the book, the call of nature, Jeremy’s constant ‘who died. who died’ SMS-es, and my eyes getting slightly strained, I managed to finish it. And It Was Good. I can honestly say that I’ve never felt this way about other HP books. Book four came close. Very nice. It contained enough surprises to keep me reading on despite the read words slushing around in my head. I’m sure I missed a few things but that’s not a problem. Theres always next time.

I managed to stay away from spoilers (yea, completely). The determination it took.. It’s the thing that tells me I can quit drugs anytime I have to. Lmao. If only. Stay Away From Drugs Kids. If You Take Drugs, You Can’t Have Children. Yep. You heard it here first. AZNGEEK. The only source for health advice. Also, smoking shrinks your genitals. Trust me. And sex weakens your immune system. Thats why Old People Die. See the logic in that? Oh, and virgins go to heaven. I do not endorse the whole blow up doll thing. Speaking of blow, Blowing yourself up and killing people WILL NOT GET YOU VIRGINS IN HEAVEN, no matter what you’ve heard. The only way to get virgins in heaven is to be a virgin in real life. Rewards are bountiful. My god Azngeek seriously pervs me up when I chat with him. Dirty thoughts fill my brain. Probably more to do with me than him but I like blaming people for my own weird shortcomings.

The book did not answer everything I wanted it to answer. I don’t need any more closure than she gave tho, it was a great close to a great 7 books. I seriously hope JKRowling doesn’t go to writing infant books or anything cos I will be waiting for her future works. Lucky kids get this while we got Enid Blyton back in the day. Ahh. How I loved reading about pixies and elves. And how good triumphs over evil. And about magic. And stuff. Wait a minute. Sounds familiar… =) Seriously tho, I wouldve loved reading HP in primary school. Damn kids. With their Harry Potters and their mobile phones and their laptops and their plastic surgery..

pSyCh

Posted by psych at July 19th, 2007

Knew from a few days back that some major fucktard from fuckland in the bastard continent in a moron universe had gotten and uploaded three quarters of the seventh Harry Potter book. People who are not into or are only slightly into the books would think “Ah, good. Now I can see who dies without having to go through the whole thing.” Lemme tell you something. IT IS A FRIGGIN BIG DEAL, OK? FRIGGIN BIG. ARGH. It’s leaked. People know who died. The spoiler is appearing randomly on random pages. Like a damn disease. I’m not making a big deal out of nothing. I’m not overly obsessed. But reading the books in order and waiting for the end of the story for the best part of my last 5(?) years is pretty much something I would not like tarnished by some mofo who doesn’t give a damn if Rowling wrote a 5 page book that chronicled the death of everyone in the HP world. This is one of the more proper rants I’ve had in a while. Felt pretty good.

pSyCh

Posted by psych at April 24th, 2007

Feel so lost. You know the feeling when you want to read that awesome book that you’ve already read and you know is lying somewhere but put it off for so long that you can’t find it anymore? Frustration seems like the right path to follow. I can see the cover in my mind’s eye. But visualizing won’t make it appear. Ahh. Harry Potter: I cant wait for July to see you and your magical wand. Anyway I wanted to reread to to review it here. But it was so good I can recall most of it from memory (I read this about a year ago) All I could come up with was the name, “Man or Mouse” and thats only due to 15 minutes of searching and coming up with Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”. Copied almost directly from amazon with my input input =] somewhere in.

- Reynard or Ren125733 is having an early-life crisis. He got dumped. He’s an actor. Tv ads i think.

-At night he is a virtual recluse with hours spent hunting female companionship on the World Wide Web. He decides he cant take any more rejection.

-He has a “virtual sex change” and becomes NuBiFem, the girl whose interests are “Online fun, offline frolics”. See? “New Bi Fem” Bi as in bisexual ler.

-Messages come flowing in. From both guys and girls. But this sole screen name, “RoxiNYC” She’s different. They both hit it off. She is also his makeup person in real life whom he has a huge crush on.

-Since they hit it off so great as lesbians, he asks his ex to become NuBiFem to continue the online chatting that fills up his soul with.. soulfood. Bad idea. They hit it off too. His ex now thinks she is bi/a lesbian. I recall them getting it on pretty early in the relationship. Prolly one of the funniest albeit expected part of the book.
And then the story goes on. Hilarious. I’m serious. It’s pretty goddamn funny. Slightly like chick lit for guys altho girls should love it as much. Notwithstanding, if you dont take into account actual book genres, I would say its a cross between teen humour (its basically about sex. so not just teens eh? you dirty adult buggers), lesbian lit, and Adrian Mole. =)
The story includes people who know hes faking it online and are watching him in real life. Weird eh? Thats all. Crazy week ahead.

pSyCh

Posted by azngeek at January 29th, 2007

But then, I always get like this. I mean-I like girls. I get on well with them. And I like sex. Not that I’ve had all that much experience of it-not with another person being in the room at the same time, anyway. I just can’t somehow put the two together. I can be getting on really well with a girl but as soon as i get an inkling that there might be a chance of anything happening, I just freeze up. It’s scary. Sex is…well, it’s so rude, isn’t it? You wouldn’t think girls would like sex. You’d think it’s too rude for them. Doing sex with a girl, it’s a bit like putting a frog down their backs or scaring them with dead mice of throwing worms at them. They’re such sensible, grown-up sorts of people. And yet apparently even the nice ones like you sticking the rudest thing you have on your whole body up the exact, rudest part of their body that they have! It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

That’s a quotation from the book Doing It, by Melvin Burgess.(The thoughts of one of the characters regarding shall I say it, the taboo of eastern society, SEX) Contemplative book, sexual in theme, and in its own right a breakthrough in revealing the male psych in terms of sexuality. Not all males, but you definitely can see how the characters and thoughts are very much real. Very much every day. Modern day books about sexuality often revolve around the female psych. The confusion, ups and downs, and of course sometimes the down right horniness. Here, we see it from a males perspective. A revelation?I’d have to say so. Reading it, one explores the callousness of the male psych in terms of sex, but also explores how sympathetic they can be. Brings new meaning to too much blood going down there rather than the brain.

How did I feel reading Doing It, by Melvin Burgess? I felt angry, and disappointed in the development of some of the characters and how they handled situations. Somewhat jealous as well. I’m very much unlike them, and I know that I’ve been raised with a different culture. The humor is very much Melvin Burgess, and he pulled it off well. British slang I always find amusing as well.

Overall, I give it a 4.5/5 as a fun yet contemplative read.

So well there you have it. My first review.