Mini-review rampage? That's small time, Blake. Gotta think big! Get with the program!
Anyway....
LOST AT SEA
is a story about a girl who may or may not have had her soul stolen by a cat. Also, teenage angst, but in a good way! I found that it gave me my daily dose of pathos without the side-effects of existential depression and angst that accompany me whenever I read anything remotely literary.
Unfortunately, if you were looking for a primer on survival techniques while at sea, or a treatise on deep-sea whaling (as I was initially hoping for on reading the manga) you will be sadly disappointed, as the author RENEGED on the implicit promise made by the title in delivering ALMOST NO technical information regarding protocols for such activities. Not even the general rule of fast fish vs. loose fish! Therefore I am forced to knock it down a unit, putting it at a grand total of three thousand eight hundred and sixteen arbitrary units (AU). Still, I greatly enjoyed it, would read again!
WARHAMMER 40K
I greatly enjoy the Gothic architecture and grimdark grim darkness of the setting-- I really love any sort of artwork involving huge machinery. Now, I don't mean just garden-variety huge-- I'm talking things like
SOLAR-SYSTEM SIZED CATHEDRAL SPACESHIPS
and
MOUNTAIN-SIZED GOTHIC CHURCH ROBOTS OF DOOOOOOM
and Warhammer 40k sates this urge!
On the other hand.... their primary protagonists (the Space Marines) are largely without personality, being modeled on the warrior-monks of old. Plus, they don't have junk. Who wants to play a guy without junk?
It therefore gets from me a rating of four thousand five hundred and three AU.
I would point out that a running riot probably needs more than two items, but I suspect that was your intention from the start :-p
ReplyDeleteI really think that 40k should be bumped up several thousand units. When those monks go crazy for the right madness-god, then super-loud, heavy music is their primary weapon and their source of greatest ecstasy.
ReplyDeleteI give this post 6/5 Trollfaces. Good Work!
ReplyDeleteAlso, sounds like you were expecting Lost at Sea to be Moby Dick. I recommend trying Moby Dick if you're looking for gory detail about the intricacies nautical life in a given time period.