Completely

Last night I finished Was. I had gone from "this book is pretty good" to "this book is kind of a downer" to "my god what a depressing book" to "why don't I read at least three chapters a night to get it over with". I'm not sure I can really recommend it. I don't feel like I got much out of it.

Next up is Zot!, by Scott McCloud, which I'm really looking forward to.

I also finished Shadow Complex tonight, one of the Xbox games I bought. It was incredibly good. It had a smooth arc from sneaking around with short, paranoid firefights to jumping and swinging rapidly through the map, leaving heaps of flaming corpses in your wake. Both kinds of play are really fun, too.

Without spoiling some of the awesome moments in it, there are really cool things to fight that aren't squishy soldiers, and the only place it falls down is right at the end: when you restore the game after beating it, it starts you at the last savepoint right before the final boss fight. It would be nice if it just dumped you back in with all your stuff and no final boss, so you could gather items, but no...