#22 - "Six Gun Planet" John Jakes

What a weird freakin book. I picked it up because I needed something to read to keep me in the bath, and today I actually took an hour long bath because I wanted to finish it. Partly I wanted to get it done with because sometimes the descriptions just went on too long. The main character didn't make sense to me - he was supposed to be smart but he seemed dumb as a post and fatally committed to being an asshole and then panicking. And you know how sometimes you expect people to go through a change during the course of a story and become a better person? Well, he went through a change and became, if anything, even more of an asshole. Well, his newfound abilities allowed him to become more of the asshole he already had been. And the ending twist that was blatantly telegraphed did NOT get followed up by the next twist I thought sure I saw coming as the real ending.

It certainly kept me reading, though.

(Again, I only have something to say if I didn't particularly like a book. ;))

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Not too very impressed with Goodwin Chevrolet in Brunswick at the moment. Last week I went to them asking for a state inspection - my sticker isn't due until August, but I thought I might get it on the same schedule as Eor's van. They found a bunch of stuff to do, I waited around for three hours, paid nearly $600, and finally got my car back, and it ran much better. All fine, except after a few days I realized I did not have a May inspection sticker for next year. It was still the one due in August of this year.

Today I went back, thinking it was just a matter of slapping a sticker on it, since they had surely done everything that could be done, right? Wrong. They came up with ANOTHER $550 worth of work to do. I had to tell them I really can't afford that again so soon, my credit card can't take it (paying it off is already going to be difficult), but inside I was wondering how they could suddenly have uncovered brake line work that apparently didn't need to be done last week.