The movie this time and author Scott Smith also wrote the screenplay. It's not half as "scary" as the novel, but it had its moments. The actors are doing an alright job except for the "hysterical" scenes which go a little overboard.

There's a couple of rewrites from the novel. My biggest issue is how character storylines have been swapped around. Pablo is called Dimitri, and he's only in the movie up until they reach the ruins, where in the novel he's around for a lot longer. Mathias is then shifted to take his role, Amy takes Erics role, etc etc.. Feels all weird.

The movie is ok. The novel is king. ;-]

If you want to be picky the original title is Ruins.

I bought this book the other week. I picked it up mostly because the cover looked interresting -- seriously, it's fricken awesome -- and when I read how it made Stephen King "scream in horror" I figured it couldn't be a bad buy.

I've read a little over 90 pages so far and what I've read has been pretty good. The characters are pretty interesting and the setting in Mexico believably hot.

I can't say I'm ready to start screaming anytime soon, though. I'm not very easily frightened, especially not by books, but I'll be sure to note if I so much as whimper... ;-]

...or 'Let the right one in' / 'Let me in', if you'd prefer the English title. It's written by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. My brother's girlfriend spoke highly of this book a while back and my [other] brother bought it for me for christmas.

Synopsis: The story revolves around Oskar, a 12-year-old-boy who is being bullied and beaten at school. He dreams about the day when he'll be strong enough to fight back against his aggressors. He befriends a girl, Eli, who moves in next door with an older man, Håkan. Eli is mysterious and special, unlike other children Oskar know of. They only meet during the nights, and these meetings turns into an oasis for Oskar, in his otherwise rather horrible life. When Eli helps Oskar fight back their relationship go beyond that of just being friends.

I fell in love at page one and could hardly put it down. It's written in a way that reaches out, grabs on to you and embraces you in a warm, familiar hug. I read some 299 pages (of about 410) in one day, reading the last bit the next day -- I would have read it all in one go, but I had to go sleep. Stupid, stupid work, how I loathe you..

The only thing I found to complain about is that there's just. not. enough. scenes. with. Oskar. and. Eli!!!! When I had read the last page I was left with a big empty void; I wanted to read moar. MOAR!!!

They're such a cute couple. :'-]

I downloaded the 10-level demo from Xbox Live Arcade and instantly fell in love. Having heard a lot of cool things about this game my expectations were very high. And with due reason.

Beating the last level in the demo left me with a craving for more, so the following day (or so) I purchased the full version and set of on the journey again. And it's got me to pull at my hair more than once, as the later levels in the game are quite tricky. Some of them require a little bit of thinking, something I'm evidently not all that good at. ;)

I've now reached the second last level (or so I've been told) and the end part of it is having me throw my controller out the window. It feels so much more based on luck rather than skill, and I end up in the acid every time. Grr..

Update: I asked my brother to get me through this particular passage (he beat the game yesterday) and he also complained about falling in the lava. We checked the settings and enabled portal funneling, which made it a breeze to get up. I'll likely finish the game tonight, as I believe the rest of the game should be easy enough. :)

Oh, and listen to the "Portal song". It's beautiful. I think I love GLaDOS.. :D

Update 2: Show's over kids, I beat the game. I felt a little sad, GLaDOS shouldn't have to die. Even though she tried to have me killed.. I still love you, GLaDOS!

So I ran across a list of ecchi anime over at Wikipedia and I instantly thought - "I should try watch all of it"... o_o;

I've watched a few of them already (or at least a few episodes) - Agent Aika, Amaenaideyo!!, Colorful, Ebichu, Futari Ecchi, Girls Bravo, Golden Boy, Ichigo 100%, Koi Koi Seven, Love Love, Mouse, Please Twins, Popotan, Strike Witches and Tonagura....... -gasp- That was a quite a few. What a pervert! :o

Some of these were really good (not necessarily because of nudity) while others, not so much (again, not necessarily because of nudity)... I'll try and watch them all. \o/

I figured I didn't watch enough anime and decided to change that by watching the 50 episode-long serie, Eureka Seven. I didn't have a whole lot else to do the last few days, so I more or less watched the entire show over the last four five days...

Someone wrote that it's Evangelion, but for kids, and I suppose that's partially true, being the nature of the show - half-adventure, half-action, half-mecha, half-romance...yada yada. But I enjoyed Eureka Seven a billion times more than I did Eva, mostly because this one didn't spin a hundred miles around my head..

It's a rather typhical story I suppose; boy meets girl (or girl crashes into boy, rather), boy and girl go on a world-spanning adventure, end up with a life-changing decision and the finale is heartwarming, sad but beautiful. And so incredible unfair. It's always so bloody unfair! Makes me wanna cry every time, it's depressing really... :-]

Aren't you a lucky guy, Renton? I wish I were you...

My brother and two of my co-workers bought FarCry2 the other day (one got it for the PS3, sigh). and after having tried it (and also from one of my co-workers bullying me), I decided to buy it myself. As I don't have an awesome computer (well, if I could just get new RAM, a better cpu and a new gfx card...) I got it for the Xbox 360. As I don't have an Xbox 360, I had to order one of those as well. Yip yip.

The game looks really pretty. The African savanna and jungles have been heaps of fun to destroy, mostly by grenades or Molotov cocktails as I haven't acquired a flamethrower just yet. It's just a shame that the fires don't spread as much as they ought to; the ground is dry most of the time, we should have massive massive forest fires. But no, they burn for a little while, spread to maybe double the initial impact spot, and then....go out. Meh.

One of the first quests I obtained were by a man with a tape recorder. He apparently give tapes away to a bunch of other people, who then destroy them (or so I understood it), but when he saw that I was "new" he babbled on a bit before giving me another quest, finishing with the line "I meant what I said about the tapes". I walked around the room a bit, and he kept repeating that line. "I meant what I said about the tapes.........."

I got it already, lets talk about something new...

I just finished downloading and applying patch 3.0.2 for World of Warcraft. It's pretty exciting, I wanna explore the new stuff, the new talents and the newly added harbour!

Apparently I can't, not just yet though. I can't seem to connect to any servers.. "Technical problems with the battlegroup..." Bah!

Finally I can make use of Ogremound again. I'll be merging both my blogs into this one (but keep the warcraft related a bit separate, still)... I'll be posting screens of various things, mostly for my own amusement (because I mean, who else would see them?).

Edit:
- I can connect to my server now, but I can't really do anything, it's plagued by lag (massive, massive lag).
- My friendlist have vanished?! :'((

Edit2:
- If you look in the navigation, there's now a new link pointing to my Warcraft posts. Check it out!