Hi!!
Wow, LJ.... working, finally! How you have been missed! While LJ was down, I took advantage of all the spare time created by not reading fanfic to catch up on some DIY, some ironing, some cleaning ...... did I heck!!
But I did finish A Fearful Symmetry, the book that now famously mentions David Tennant and has the protagonists watchingf Girl in the Fireplace. My thoughts, plus a question or twoabout the ending for anyone who has read it....
This book just made me feel really really angry actually in the end, because the person that I started off feeling a great deal of sympathy for, Elspeth, turned out to be a real cow. To a sinister level. It was just horrible, the person she revealed herself to be by the end of the book. And do we think that Niffenegger's editor said one day 'Ok, finish this tonight now please' because it feels like there's a chapter or something missing at the end. There's a line from Robert's point of view that reads something like 'he sat there wondering what to do, then he laughed, it was obvious'. Was it? I'm not sure I got it - well, apart from that he left in the end, but I don't see how that was something that was such a riddle that needed to be poured over. Surely that would have been one of the first things to think, the way it's written though, the way Robert comes to this decision, it feels like there was some really clever solution he came up with, and that it was one that I didn't get. 'Move to the country, get her pregnant, finish the thesis, leave her' felt a bit....understandable completely, but not something that he needed to laugh over, or that she (the author) needed to shroud in mystery.
Also - do you think that it was always Elspeth's plan, once the twins arrived, to kill Valentina and to take her place? That she might have manipulated Valentina into the plan? She seemed quite malicious and manipulatiev really. Also, there were a couple of mentions of dark presences or shadows in windows which ;couldn't be Elspeth' and I kept thinking that there would be another ghost or something that would be revealed near the end. It never was.
It was just a really unsatisfactory read I thought. Was I reading it wrong?
Here's hoping LJ stays well behaved for the forseeable future. I must away to finish some work, I'll be ore quiet than usual on LJ I think for the next month or so....
But I did finish A Fearful Symmetry, the book that now famously mentions David Tennant and has the protagonists watchingf Girl in the Fireplace. My thoughts, plus a question or twoabout the ending for anyone who has read it....
This book just made me feel really really angry actually in the end, because the person that I started off feeling a great deal of sympathy for, Elspeth, turned out to be a real cow. To a sinister level. It was just horrible, the person she revealed herself to be by the end of the book. And do we think that Niffenegger's editor said one day 'Ok, finish this tonight now please' because it feels like there's a chapter or something missing at the end. There's a line from Robert's point of view that reads something like 'he sat there wondering what to do, then he laughed, it was obvious'. Was it? I'm not sure I got it - well, apart from that he left in the end, but I don't see how that was something that was such a riddle that needed to be poured over. Surely that would have been one of the first things to think, the way it's written though, the way Robert comes to this decision, it feels like there was some really clever solution he came up with, and that it was one that I didn't get. 'Move to the country, get her pregnant, finish the thesis, leave her' felt a bit....understandable completely, but not something that he needed to laugh over, or that she (the author) needed to shroud in mystery.
Also - do you think that it was always Elspeth's plan, once the twins arrived, to kill Valentina and to take her place? That she might have manipulated Valentina into the plan? She seemed quite malicious and manipulatiev really. Also, there were a couple of mentions of dark presences or shadows in windows which ;couldn't be Elspeth' and I kept thinking that there would be another ghost or something that would be revealed near the end. It never was.
It was just a really unsatisfactory read I thought. Was I reading it wrong?
Here's hoping LJ stays well behaved for the forseeable future. I must away to finish some work, I'll be ore quiet than usual on LJ I think for the next month or so....