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The other day I noticed that the last book in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series had been released as paperback in Sweden.

I haven't read anything by King before so, even though my "yet-to-read" shelf is overflowing already, I decided to order all seven books in the series just to have a go at him. I figured it would be a good start.

I am unaware of King's writing style, but I'm pretty sure I'll like the books from what [little] I've read about him / them. And since everyone seems to hold King in high regard, and with The Dark Tower being his magnum opus, it has to be at least "good", right? We'll see. :-)

Edit 29/9: The books arrived today. :-) I've stashed them on the shelf for the time being (I'm in the middle of a book at the moment) but will pick up The Gunslinger next. Also, that's only about half the shelf showing.. I need to pick up on my reading.. .__.

I've played MTG on the Xbox360 for a while and have grown accustomed to Liliana Vess' deck, Eyes of Shadow. I'm having a lof of fun with it and it's the one I'll most likely play, although I'm slowly finishing of Tezzeret's deck Relics of Doom which is also fun to play. My brother plays Nissa's Ears of the Elves which combined with Eyes of Shadow wrecks havoc wherever we go. :-)

Now, of course we don't only play on the 360, we have a bunch of decks (finished and unfinished, but not personalized) that we play each other with now and then. Sadly we have too many less-than-awesome (aka common) cards that we just can't fit in anywhere. Piles of them, in fact. :/

I bought the Liliana vs Garruk Duel Decks in hopes to get the cards I love from the 360. Buying the Duel Decks was cheaper than buying Liliana's deck on its own. I also bought a couple of spare cards that would serve me well, some of them were unlockables on the 360. To my surprise the Duel Decks didn't hold the cards I wanted. I hadn't really looked into exactly what cards were in the decks assuming they'd be identical, but as it turns out, the physical decks were only inspired by their digital counterparts. D'oh.

The cards I got were far from awful however, they were just not as well matched with the extras I bought. Swapping a few of the cards I got with some older ones made it all better though. ;-)

And also, we finally got some protective sleeves for the cards. Our oldest cards have seen better days to be honest, and it was about time we got some protection for them. It made shuffling the decks a hundred times easier as well. :-))

Now, in all this there's one thing I'm not really happy with, and that's the Planeswalkers themselves. I got Liliana in the Fat Pack I ordered a few months back and also recieved both Liliana and Garruk with the Duel Decks. Currently I'm the only one in our group (of four) that has a Planeswalker and I think they're a little overpowered. Of course we don't have to play with them, and I always opt not to, to "even out" the game a bit. Even though the others sometimes insist I should. :-]

I tried watching SE:L a good while back, but it was dubbed in English so turned it off after 2 minutes. Anime dubs are shit..

I recently got a hold of a copy with Japanese speech and decided to give it a go. I've seen 6 episodes so far.

Honestly I don't really know what the hell is going on. @_@

Strangely enough, the story reminds me of the Otherland-serie by Tad Williams. I liked that one better though.

Ok so it's rumored to be released November 2, so "around the corner" may be a bit of a stretch, but it's getting closer. I'm a happy puppy! :-)

A few things I'm looking forward to:

New quests

I don't raid much and I don't pvp. When I run out of quests, there's not enough to do. (I also suck at leveling alts)..

Worgen

Nuff said.

Smaller Talent-trees

They're currently a little too big for my liking. Smaller means easier to manage.

Flying in Azeroth

Fcking finally, this. Trecking the old land is a bitch. Flying will be win!

Viral kawaii made by BootsBoots. This sucker dropped in the mail today. I'm suffering a cold right now which is a bit ironic. (Probably all five though, right?)

Like I mentioned a while back, I suck at finishing stuff. It's not just limited to games, but with most everything I lay my hands on. I can't seem to find enough motivation or inspiration to finish what I'm doing.

For instance, I have a bunch of unfinished posts on this blog that just lays there, marked as drafts. Posts that I would very much like to wrap up and publish, but simply can't because the right words won't come to me.

The image above is of someone else's unfinished puzzle, but that's pretty much how I feel about a lot of things. I may get the edges finished, but all the bits that go inside are never laid down on the table. Or, if I'm especially unlucky, the pieces end up the wrong places. And without all the pieces in place, the puzzle is ruined..

I'm currently trying to find books and/or movies with stories that revolves around travels either by train or by sea. I own a few books about seafaring (such as the Liveship Traders Trilogy) but I'm wanting more. In my search I stumbled upon a list of 101 Crackerjack Sea Books which will more than likely satisfy the thirst for seafaring stories. Woop. :)

Stories about trains seems to be sparse, however. I'm sure there's an equal list of 101 stories about trains but I haven't found it. People have suggested Agatha Christies 'Murder on the Orient Express' and my brother mentioned The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock which I'll look into. Apart from those I haven't really found anything. Well, so far..