Belated Birthday Presents

[ratherastory]

There are times when I realize I am well and truly blessed in my friends. For six years now three of my friends and I who all have birthdays in late December and January get together to celebrate our birthdays. We do this by writing a radio play and then making our other friends perform it, because we're sadistic that way. Luckily, our friends enjoy our particular brand of sadism. ;)

This time around we made it a choose-your-own adventure format, because we thought it would be awesome, and it turned out beautifully. There was audience participation, filk, and by the end we were all laughing so hard we had tears pouring down our faces.

This year, there was an added bonus for me. My very good friend Lu presented me with a gift, and when I unwrapped it (driving her crazy in the process because I'm one of those people who has to unstick the scotch tape rather than tear the paper), there were two books inside:

In The Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural

and

The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls.

I love my friends. They are not only geeks of all kinds (writers, musicians, programmers, technical writers, librarians, anthropologists, archaeologists, knitters, spinners, artists, you name it), they ALSO totally and shamelessly enable me in my obsessions.

So when I admitted that I was massively obsessing about Supernatural, rather than just roll their eyes and just let me work through my phase, they jumped on board with glee and are now feeding my habit.

:D

Comments

[dinalori.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not that it's bad, it's just that it's a rehash of stuff that's already out there. Since you already have the Monster Book, a lot of the information is repeated in the Journal. I'd say it takes up about 1/3. Then a lot of the stuff at the begining is available free on the web at the Warner Bros. Supernatural site. (Or it was, I'm not sure if the site is still active.) Lastly some of the later entries about the boys have already been Kripked by events in After School Special and the season 5 opener.

So, yeah, I pretty much found the book not worth my time and money but YMMV.