I do read some depressive stuff, but it tends to affect me much less than other depressive media. I also happen to find it cathartic - except the really no-way-out, no-resolution kind of situations. Speaking of; Richard Morgan's stuff tend that extreme. Market Forces for example. Pretty good and fast-paced high-tech noir writing, but by the end of the book you just hate everyone in it. And in the world. Including yourself.


Finally got Sapkowski's translated Times of Contempt. Looking quite forward to that. Also started Deadhouse Gates, the second Malazan book. I swear I need a cheat sheet for all the characters. And places. And concepts.


'Course, I really should be "reading" my course notes But really - the inner workings of pension funds are so much less interesting than... pretty much anything else, really.