23 days out. Feeling quite cranky. So sick of laying around. And my heart continues to really pound. Not happy really with my progress, though I suppose I'm progressing.

Teh Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
This is so absurdly long winded. There has been so very little to happen. I give up at 75%. This is just a chore. I was thinking maybe he'd become a better as he went along. Also was waiting for the Sithi. This is just writing that's been churned out. He heard he needed to get his 500 or whatever and he made sure to churn them out.

Hollow World by Michael Sullivan
Sci fi is dying. Very hard to do it and be any good. This did have some nice ideas about the future. Plot was quite silly. Certainly better than Tad Williams though.

Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw
Pretty good. Boy at school for marshalls that are sort of like secret agent men I think in the middle ages. Vague magic. First book was quite long. 900 pages. I enjoyed. Good read while going through my ordeal. Wish the rest of the series was already completed. He really puts in some good philosophical points while keeping it a page turner.

Having trouble finding a good book lately. I'm so not at my best right now for thinking or anything. I'm thankful I've had a decent number of visitors. Mainly B like 3 our or 4 days, the sister of S, who whatever the fuck happened I don't really know. Some kind of jealousy. Hopefully B will never do something ugly like that. So sick of that sort of thing. The thing is to see how a person treats other people and based off that she really does not appear to be that sort of person. Not remotely. Seems a very good person. Not a miserable misanthrope jealous of other's happiness or whatever.

I have no inspiration. What I had in the past was based off of unhappiness. And that just isn't the way to get it done. Now I'm not really unhappy. Just cranky about physical pain and laying around for close to 4 weeks now. So sick of TV/movies. Getting tired of music even. I think. I don't know.
Get nauseuaueues if I eat much. Find myself turning to thinking about sex as I'm really running out of ideas lately. Hurt too much for hard thinking. Feeling quite cranky that my wife is a foot shorter than me and outweighs me by 40 pounds. No point in complaining about it to anyone. No point talking about it at all. It wouldn't bother me so much except I'm stuck sitting here in the this recliner and just out of things I can do. Can't go do sports, or projects, or even go for a walk. Can't think hard, so being creative is out. More cerebral, anti-page turner books are beyond me mentally right now. Can't go to work. Can't even sit outside and relax because of the locust swarm.

Orcs by Stan Nicholls
Awfully stupid book.

On the front is a blurb by Tad Williams "Buy now or beg for mercy later."
Note to self: don't buy anythiing else by Tad Williams and don't bother ever finishing that one of his I started more than a decade ago.

Just from reading the blurbs I should have known better except the first one by the Independent claimed Nicholls was the equal of Robert Jordan and George Martin. Also I was at this strange bookstore that created the illusion of having a lot of books because it was an old converted house with 20+ rooms, but actually had a very small selection. And I wanted to get one fantasy book that day.

Fantasy is all about 2D characters but his are more 1D. His setting is about the same.

Injustice to right? Meh.
Some vague wonderful thing looming off in the distance? No.

Psychological insights? No.
Sociological insights? Tries to make the orcs seem like good people. He might be working his way around to saying something eventually interesting there, but I doubt it.

Perhaps this is like fantasy for marines I guess. I notice so many video games these days have a military thing, so the idea here was to that orcs are like marine grunts. Really just an awful piece of crap. I feel sorry for the fool having spent his time writing such a thing. But much more so for all the people who wasted any time partially reading it.