I’ve really got no problem with free time and, as an extension of that idea, no problem with “vacations.” I do so love to have free time. Though with that said, I really wish that I could actually have a break when I’m sick and tired of class, rather than have a break just when I finally start enjoying going to class. Seriously, it’s getting annoying. I whine about class for the first month and a half and, of course, no break then; it isn’t until the week where I finally say “Hey, you know, class is actually kind of fun this semester,” and then they throw the free-time in my face so that it almost resembles a punishment. Fuckers.

So, yesterday, I was bored. I say this upfront just so you know that I was in a desperate, needy even, state of mind when I picked up Ender’s Game to read. And although I said this repeatedly while speaking on the matter of Serenity I’ll say it again: I really don’t typically like science-fiction movies or books. They’re generally grade-A cheese with the character development of a one-dimensional vacuum—that is to say, there is none; though Ender’s Game was a surprisingly enjoyable book. With the exception of the first twenty pages of the book, I essentially read it in one fairly consistent session of sitting. To say that standing up hurt afterwards would be an understatement of the highest degree. And, Orson Scott Card’s insanity and self-righteousness aside, it was a very entertaining book.

With that said, there’s a reason I don’t tend to read books so much anymore: because I have a tendency to want to read them within a day or two. Unless they’re lexical or narrative abominations, in which case I speed-read at the rate of a chapter per minute so I can understand things will enough to write half-way intelligent summaries of said brutally repulsive tale, at which point I build a fire with its innards. Ray Bradbury hates me, yes I know this.

Now here are a summary of things I approve or think highly of: PostSecret, F.E.A.R., City of Villains, Call of Duty 2, Age of Empires 3.

Here are things I would turn around on if I saw them getting mugged in a dark alley: Serious Sam 2, Black and White 2, Day of Defeat: Source.