New Year

The new year is here and the time is right for a few changes, however well the previous activities and things were working. New is not necessarily better as the saying goes no matter what the advertising guys say.

I'm done looking back, looking around, and looking down; today is for looking forward and reading yet another book while drinking yet another scotch on the rocks. To that end I've finished Steven Brusts' tantalizing tale about Vladamir Taltos aptly named Taltos, and yes, he had the name long before Rice took it to use on vampires.

I liked the book. It contained three different stories, which taken by themselves would have produced a long scene and two novellas. Put in the form in which they were displayed it came out with a fast paced, interesting story about death, revenge, and that most important of activities: love.

Published back in 1988, I find it fascinating that the story is 18 years old now. I've read it several times over the years and have only recently continued to read the rest of the stories in the series. I was suprised when the perspective changed to third person in the book after Phoenix, and was actually disappointed. I liked the first person style, liked the intimacy with the narrator. This way, as a reader I feel to far removed after having read five stories from the protagonists perspective. Oh well, we'll see what happens.

Other news. The degree is finished. I'm officially edumacated. I did sign up for classes at Metro. We'll see how that goes. I'd like to take classes on literature and writing. The written word, for all the bells and whistles the information age has given us, is still the greatest form of communication, and the most passionate.