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[bliumchik]

I'm reading Machiavelli's The Prince. Thank you, Google.

"Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge."

I like this guy, he's clever. Ruthless, but clever. It's also helping me get a better perspective on the Patrician character from the Discworld books, who remains awesome.

I'm also being sat on by a very insistent cat and perusing comic book feminist blogs, which I've just discovered. I mean, I've just discovered they exist. It kind of makes me wish I had the time and money to read comics. Alas, they go on for ever and my library barely acknowledges their existence - they've managed to collect almost all the Sandman books, thankfully, and assorted random volumes of various "teeny" comics, but... yeah. I've liked what I read of Ultimate X-Men, but it really does take so long, and reading it on the computer is of course inconvenient and annoying.

Comments

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

no, the first one, they put it online for free. Got link from blog of Neil Gaiman, who is awsome.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

The first one is a good start, but the series didn't hook me until the third issue -- the first three issues are an arc, and it has quite a brutal payoff. You'll love it. (It doesn't help that I had a roomie at the time who was much much much like Spider except that he was a stage director and not a journalist, but that's about the only difference.)

I do hope you've hunted down both of Neil's Death TPBs, then? The first one is excellent, the second...eh, not so much, but charmingly adequate, I think. And even sub-par Neil is still Neil.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Only the first one, sadly. My library is for the lose :(
Whenever I'm in the city and I have time to waste gravitate to Kinokunia, the local HUUUUGE comics/manga/nonfiction store, and stand around reading things my library fails at.