Bleergh

[liadnan]

Godawful miserable day, grim weather, tired, spent too much money on dull things, nothing in brain today, blah.

Just re-read Donna Tartt's Secret History for the first time since shortly after it came out. Sadly disappointing now, I found myself loathing each and every one of the characters, except Camilla...

And my semi-serious plan of joining the Historical Crime Craze by being the first to write a Byzantine Lindsey Davis type thing (I know, not particularly original but it had potential I thought) has been done by some 26 year old while I procrastinated.

I am going to go and get drunk now. I may be some time.

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[greyarea.livejournal.com]

*raises glass* cheers.

[liadnan]

Oooh my head.

[boondockeorla.livejournal.com]

don't you hate it when you realize that you just dropped a good deal of money and don't even have anything fun to show for it?

[liadnan]

Seems to be happening all the time. That was priobably my flight to New York, that was.

did it snow there?

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

and then, did snow turn to rain? talk about grim weather.

SH sucks - I've been saying that for years. I think it's good when you're of a certain age and, for better or worse (better, I think), we're not of that anymore.

What is HCC?

Talk about depressing things; everyone in my LGBT crime and mystery list is working on a book at the moment. Depressing.

Getting drunk sounds like a good plan. I plan to do the same right now.

Re: did it snow there?

[liadnan]

Never quite got to snowq here. And now warmer hurrah: was getting really fed up with the cold.

By HCC I just mean that in the last few years historical crimne has become endemic, and with some notable exceptions (Davis and Saylor, although he can be stodgy, particularly once you've worked out which Cicero speech this is) they're often a bit rubbish.

Re: did it snow there?

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to have gotten any warmer here.

But at least I realised why the weather is such an interesting topic of conversation here - lol.

HCC- I usually stay away from those. I have read a few set in Rome, but they were more focused on te crime aspect rather than the Roman aspect. And then there were those set in classical Athens... I was too afraid to read those!

Re: did it snow there?

[liadnan]

Well, I haven't read many Greek ones (I believe there's an Aristotle-Super Sleuth lot) though incidentally _The Athenian Murders_ (Somosa or something?) is well-worth a read and not really the same kind of thing at all.. at least by the end.

Saylor's first six or so are very, very closely based on bits of Cicero... Our Hero has an ambivalent relationship with Cicero and is emplyed by him (or sometimes other characters) in various of Cicero's big cases. He now seems to have run out of that lot and gone into writing about the Civil War.

Davies is quite different in style: set under Vespasian and much more light-hearted. And better-written, frankly.

I blame Eco, obviously.

Re: did it snow there?

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you can blame Eco for a lot of things.

(and why does no one ever blame Wittgenstein for anything?)

I have read reviews of Athenian Murders. Maybe one day. I'll probably try the Davies books once I finish the ones I have in my To-Read stack.

Sounds like a good idea [attempt II, fekking LJ anyway]

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

The getting drunk part anyway... I have fond memories of inebriation myself... although being old with an equally and probably older liver [if you consider road miles], I must not...

I was considering the need to escape reality the other day when I realized that prescription drugs and alcohol really are the only things open to those of my age and social standing [meaning, of course, a moderate acquaintance with housing and occupation as opposed to being homeless and indigent... or worse yet, incarcerated]

But I digress... it's a sad sad state of affairs that I, a former recreational drug user, am so very limited in my choices... sux 2 b me....

Oh, btw, I looked back over your LJ entries and I couldn't find it but it sure seems to me that you mentioned [and I discovered] Ludovico Einaudi and Elysium's Auvergne Chants from you... not so?

Anyway... I like 'em both and while I've been able to find Einaudi's [very expensive] cd's available stateside, that's not the case with the Chants... what's up with that?! A conspiracy perhaps?? keep them danged pesky OLD european types away from us forthright and enlightened colonials?

Ah well... have a lovely weekend! and ps.... did I send you the photos of Lauren and family?... so old and my brain pan is leaking... lemme know...

It also occured to me that I could send you an email if only I could find which email addresses I currently have for you are viable... or do you have dozens?... like myself...

aunti v

Re: Sounds like a good idea [attempt II, fekking LJ anyway]

[liadnan]

Ludovico Einaudi and Elysium's Auvergne Chants from you...

It'ds not impossible but I don't remember mentioning them...

Nah, I have no pictures of Lauren either (which is a shame). Never mind, my memory is also falling to bits.