two-point lists
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sub_dividedPeople are friending me for no reason *I* can see, so I thought I'd at least update. Now with 1000% more two-point lists!
Two remakes to see in 2006 for completely different reasons
1. Scorcese/DiCaprio/Damon remake of Internal Affairs
2. Bollywood remake of Fight Club
Two novel-length AU fanfics
1. Bleach Triad AU by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cynic_in_charge complete with double-dealings, slapstick gun-play, and explosions XD.
2. Genius Girl Wuxia AU bymemlu and while you're at it read the original comic, it's steampunkerific.
Two novel-length novels
1. Blog-style translation of Botchan everything I've read, I think only Bertie Wooster from the Jeeves books was a more unreliable narator than this guy. Hillarious new teacher in the sticks stuff (via meril).
2. Wuxiapedia technically way more than one novel here, and also a lot of general information. (viatokyofish)
Two ways to tell you are reading subdee!fic
1. Characters work through problems logically, either in dialogue or exposition (the Octavia E. Butler effect).
2. It's written in the style of whatever book I just finished reading.
Two funniest things I've heard about Bleach lately
1. Ikkaku and Yumchika are just buddies!
2. "Bleach is a tightly-plotted, well-planned conspiracy thriller..."
Still plugging away at the Atomic Spectroscopy lab. It's annoying because I can't remember any of the analysis work I did at the end of the year, and I've been putting it off, and the more I put it off the less I remember. I finished A Suitable Boy while in this frame of mind, perversely because I wanted to read about people who are practical-minded and take control of their lives while scorning laziness, procrastination, and depression. HA HA. (It's a great book, well-written for all thousand plus pages which is, frankly, amazing, but in the end it was too practical even for me. More on this later.)
Classes at Rutgers continue to be more fun than most of the classes I took at Michigan, while at the same time being much easier. It's big-fish-small-pond syndrome? Although thinking about it a little more it might be big-fish-home-pond syndrome instead. Things are more comfortable here. It's a huge relief to meet the eyes of that black guy at the bus stop, for instance, and know that he knows that I'm not staring at him just because he's black.
Two remakes to see in 2006 for completely different reasons
1. Scorcese/DiCaprio/Damon remake of Internal Affairs
2. Bollywood remake of Fight Club
Two novel-length AU fanfics
1. Bleach Triad AU by
cynic_in_charge complete with double-dealings, slapstick gun-play, and explosions XD. 2. Genius Girl Wuxia AU by
memlu and while you're at it read the original comic, it's steampunkerific. Two novel-length novels
1. Blog-style translation of Botchan everything I've read, I think only Bertie Wooster from the Jeeves books was a more unreliable narator than this guy. Hillarious new teacher in the sticks stuff (via meril).
2. Wuxiapedia technically way more than one novel here, and also a lot of general information. (via
tokyofish) Two ways to tell you are reading subdee!fic
1. Characters work through problems logically, either in dialogue or exposition (the Octavia E. Butler effect).
2. It's written in the style of whatever book I just finished reading.
Two funniest things I've heard about Bleach lately
1. Ikkaku and Yumchika are just buddies!
2. "Bleach is a tightly-plotted, well-planned conspiracy thriller..."
Still plugging away at the Atomic Spectroscopy lab. It's annoying because I can't remember any of the analysis work I did at the end of the year, and I've been putting it off, and the more I put it off the less I remember. I finished A Suitable Boy while in this frame of mind, perversely because I wanted to read about people who are practical-minded and take control of their lives while scorning laziness, procrastination, and depression. HA HA. (It's a great book, well-written for all thousand plus pages which is, frankly, amazing, but in the end it was too practical even for me. More on this later.)
Classes at Rutgers continue to be more fun than most of the classes I took at Michigan, while at the same time being much easier. It's big-fish-small-pond syndrome? Although thinking about it a little more it might be big-fish-home-pond syndrome instead. Things are more comfortable here. It's a huge relief to meet the eyes of that black guy at the bus stop, for instance, and know that he knows that I'm not staring at him just because he's black.