Yet another fantasy with Asian bits in it! And it was kind of cool when I realized the girl was Chinese. The way the book was written kind of annoyed me -- the premise is that the main character, Jude, is telling his story of killing the last dragon to a monk, and the monk is copying down every single thing he says! This includes all the "Well, hi
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But it was a very interesting distraction.
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I'm teaching an Asian literature class this semester. Can I show my students this? I think it would be a great start, even though they won't know the book.
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Feel free to show it to your students *immensely flattered*
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Heh. Just read an article on the airplane on the wearing of high heels and how some doctors think it's about the worse thing to happen to feet since foot binding!
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Something about scenes in which the upper-class girl decides to buck the system... they've never really rang true for me... they always seem waaaaaaay too modern for the time period they're set it.
But if she's taking off her corsett or de-binding her feet in order to do some actual *work*, then I find it far more believable.
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Very much agree on the upper-class girl bucking the system thing. It's always felt too Mary-Sueish for me.
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