Nothing Written in Stoneheliophile_oxonApril 28 2016, 15:49:52 UTC
... is what I'm re-reading at the mo :-) Has a few things about it that annoy me just a tiny bit (I think that's inevitable, tbh, one can always find a hole to pick!) but it's great fun - and has plenty of good bits *g*
I seem to remember reading Sorcerer's Web once, but after enjoying the beginning - and thinking in very happy anticipation indeed that I was about to get my teeth into a lovely long, solid read, one to relish - I got increasingly disappointed as it went on and in the end I barely made it to the last page for the sake of finishing it. I thought it was too out of balance, you know? Swathes of torture porn and no pay-off, nothing like enough to balance against all that torture to make the reader feel there was a valid reason for its being there (we're told the reason, iirc, but not shown it in a way that makes it feel substantial) so it felt very out of kilter overall. If nothing else, the extent of that imbalance has the effect of making Ray come across as an utter bastard and somebody not worth enduring suffering for :-(
Ahem. I'm afraid I took agin it a bit, you can probably tell ... *g*
RE: Nothing Written in StonebyslantedlightApril 28 2016, 21:52:57 UTC
Oh, Josey! I've not read any Josey for ages! *adds to list* *g*
I thought it was too out of balance, you know? Swathes of torture porn and no pay-off Hmmn, I didn't get that the imbalance made Ray look a complete bastard, cos we saw him suffering from doing it too, I thought - though the focus was definitely on Bodie. I somehow remember more pay-off at the end than I felt this time, mind, so I see where you're coming from... *g*
I seem to remember reading Sorcerer's Web once, but after enjoying the beginning - and thinking in very happy anticipation indeed that I was about to get my teeth into a lovely long, solid read, one to relish - I got increasingly disappointed as it went on and in the end I barely made it to the last page for the sake of finishing it. I thought it was too out of balance, you know? Swathes of torture porn and no pay-off, nothing like enough to balance against all that torture to make the reader feel there was a valid reason for its being there (we're told the reason, iirc, but not shown it in a way that makes it feel substantial) so it felt very out of kilter overall. If nothing else, the extent of that imbalance has the effect of making Ray come across as an utter bastard and somebody not worth enduring suffering for :-(
Ahem. I'm afraid I took agin it a bit, you can probably tell ... *g*
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I thought it was too out of balance, you know? Swathes of torture porn and no pay-off
Hmmn, I didn't get that the imbalance made Ray look a complete bastard, cos we saw him suffering from doing it too, I thought - though the focus was definitely on Bodie. I somehow remember more pay-off at the end than I felt this time, mind, so I see where you're coming from... *g*
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