Current mood:	exhausted
Current music:	Mythbusters! :D

Novel Number Thirteen...
...completed. Exile by R.A. Salvatore.

This novel took longer to read than I both expected and hoped. Besides being insanely busy with work and such, the second installment of The Dark Elf Trilogy failed to captivate me as much as the first. Once again, I adore the character of Drizzt, and even applaud Salvatore for creating a host of memorble characters.

But I felt that this novel was rushed. Like the majority of it was written in haste, and jam packed with small filler scenarios to make it appear more voluptuous. I don't feel the character of Clacker was necessary at all. Neither were 90% of the battles in the novel, because we all knew that Drizzt and Belwar would emerge triumphant with barely a scratch. Our hero(s) being impervious to harm is good and all (hooray for continued series), that whole invincible team bit got old after fighting the goblins. And predictable. Shake it up a bit, Salvatore! They have to get more than just a knicked shoulder and a bump on the head.

And don't get me started on the grammatical errors. I bought the collector's edition. I found more than a dozen errors between the first two installments. What is even sadder is that this is not even the first print of this edition. The first one was published in 1998, and the second in 2000. You would think in that time these very simple errors would get polished.

Of course, I'll still read the rest of the trilogy, and quite possibly The Icewind Dale Trilogy, since that is also sitting in my bookshelf. But all of my novels for the Gothic novel seminar finally came in the mail (two weeks and $95 later), so Drizzt and his adventures are on hiatus until I read at least three of the Gothic novel texts. I'm trying to stay ahead of the work, because the last two semesters I got swamped with papers and readings because of how many English courses I took.

In other news, Candy and I took a road trip yesterday, and had an amazing time, even though we ended up blowing a big wad of hard earned cash in the process. Maybe I'll post pictures, who knows? Other issues are better left unsaid at the moment. More appropriate for a private journal, as opposed to this mock journal that's broadcasted throughout the entire Internet.

And now, I'm off to find my Lovie so he can take me home. I have work at 5am for the rest of the week, and I also have to clean both my room and my uncle's house. I'm exhausted.