GHIII and a plethora of pages

Yesterday I picked up GHIII for PS2. What a fantastic game! My confidence of the GH title has been restored after some disappointment resulting from the extremely high price and short list of songs from 80's edition.

The minor tweaks in game play are so subtle that they take nothing away from experience from previous games but allow easier completion of some of the games faster runs. The added forgiveness of the game is necessary coupled with the upped difficulty of this game. The song list is great and new competitive features make it the best guitar game available.

Despite my night with Guitar Hero last yesterday and the unbelievable string of night meetings I have had to attend I have managed to get a lot of reading done. Here's an update:

The Picture of Dorian Gray had a fantastic premise although I felt the story line could have used a little more.

Northanger Abbey at least exposed me to Jane Austen's writing style, which I would imagine will be nice when I read some of her master works but this was a chick book from the beginning- blah.

Crime and Punishment - The best book I've read since Pillars of the Earth and Maybe even Dracula- a must read. I was so interested in this book and the mine of Raskolonikov that I edited an entry on the Crime and Punishment wikipedia page.

Frankenstein - the REAL one, really surprised me. I knew that what the story really was had transformed from what it started as but the original was a fast read and a great look at the desire for want and companionship.

Hard Times - Another Dickens book. Easy to follow, easy to read. My only caution of this book is how much the words are distorted in the speech of "thome of the charactherth".

Sons and Lovers - An Oedipus for the 20th century. The further removed I am from having read this the more I reflect on the characters. The development of the characters is really all this book is about.

Treasure Island - Good story, very fast read, enough said.

My recent string of reading has paid its first dividend. I got a Final Jeopardy literature question correct. I've always been terrible at the Jeopardy lit questions. Watch out Ken Jennings.

If you want any more description about any of the books, just let me know.

Its the Michigan-Michigan State game on Saturday and the game is on ABC. I don't have anything to do like last Saturday so I am looking forward to a great day of football watching.