Tuckered... thoughts on a book and a game.

I am super tired. Hooray. Huzzah.

Been super busy. All will be dark for a bit come Friday.

Below are thoughts on a recent book I read and game I have played.


THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO

Nick Cave's second novel is the Death of Bunny Munro. When I first started this book, it wasn't what I would immediately expect from one of the better song writers around. Well... maybe if you count his Grinderman project. The book is crude and seemed a bit off kilter at first. I stuck with it (of course) and was glad I did.

Coming in at 288 pages, the book is a fairly brisk read. It is written largely in the way the lead characters think... a TON of sentences end in "or something." Anyways... what started out as a seemingly crude and simple story evolved into a fairly deep and involving tale. It details what happens when you just do what you want and think you have life in a headlock... and all it takes is one important bolt to come loose and all starts spiraling out of control.

That's all I can really say about it without getting into plot and what not. Not really where I want to go. I will say I definitely recommend it to any man. As for women, it would just depend on how much you can stomach a crude character who acts like a man with no restraint.


BRUTAL LEGEND

I recently played through Tim Schafer's Brutal Legend on PS3 (also on 360). This game is a weird amalgam of action and real time strategy that takes the world of heavy metal and makes it real. Think heavy metal album covers and that is the world you are thrust into. Jack Black is the voice of the lead character and coupled with Schafer's dialog is quite hilarious (Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmeister, Rob Halford, Tim Curry, and others provide voices as well).

The gameplay is fresh and the game looks like concept art come to life. It has a great style. The soundtrack also is composed of over 100 hard rock tracks (this game has very much put me in a heavy metal frame of mind). I had a blast. The game has a great multi-player mode as well.

I highly recommend this game to anyone who values fresh concepts, original IPs, action or RTS games, heavy music, and/or quality writing. A trailer follow below... followed by a reminded that you can't kill the metal.

WATCH A BRUTAL LEGEND TRAILER!