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Sorry about the entry last night. I usually hate writing cryptic, overdramatic LJ entries, but this one had to be done.
Very slight bad news about the JRB tickets. schizophrenic0, I don't think I told you. They can't give us the tickets for half price, as it turns out, but if we show them our college ID, they'll give them to us for $24 instead of $31. But we still have the best seats ever.
I finished Son of a Witch last night.
I liked it a lot better than Wicked. This is actually the first Gregory Maguire book that I've gotten through easily. I forced myself through Wicked, I had to stop a hundred pages into Lost, and I didn't even bother to read his other ones. I think he has fantastic ideas and characters and places in his head, but he doesn't write them very well.
But that's not the point.
Towards the end, it got a little slow, and it started feeling like Wicked again. I adored Candle in the beginning, but I ended up hating her at the end.
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for...
*drumroll*
GREGORY MAGUIRE DID NOT COP OUT ON US THIS TIME!
*praises the Liir/Trism-ness of it all!*
"'... There's no way out, anyway. Not until they're asleep, at least.'
'We could jump out of the window into the river.'
'We already jumped,' said Liir. 'Come on. To bed. I'm going to jump you first. It's just the next part of history, right? If we're going to be found, we may as well be found out.'"
"Trism was still asleep, his hair rucked back against the pillow. The sound of cantering horse hooves grew louder. Liir wanted to kiss Trism awake, but had the notion that the time for that was already over.
He did it anyway. Trism groaned, and made room, and after a while said, 'We don't do this sort of thing in our circle.'
Did he mean his class at St. Prowd's? His family? The Home Guard? Didn't matter. Liir replied, 'Well, your circle seems to have widened, hasn't it.'
'Or shrunk,' said Trism, reaching for his boots."
What I don't like is that the entire point of the book is Liir's search for Nor, and he never actually finds her.
But the ending was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Couldn't have done it a better way.
*le sigh*
Very slight bad news about the JRB tickets. schizophrenic0, I don't think I told you. They can't give us the tickets for half price, as it turns out, but if we show them our college ID, they'll give them to us for $24 instead of $31. But we still have the best seats ever.
I finished Son of a Witch last night.
I liked it a lot better than Wicked. This is actually the first Gregory Maguire book that I've gotten through easily. I forced myself through Wicked, I had to stop a hundred pages into Lost, and I didn't even bother to read his other ones. I think he has fantastic ideas and characters and places in his head, but he doesn't write them very well.
But that's not the point.
Towards the end, it got a little slow, and it started feeling like Wicked again. I adored Candle in the beginning, but I ended up hating her at the end.
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for...
*drumroll*
GREGORY MAGUIRE DID NOT COP OUT ON US THIS TIME!
*praises the Liir/Trism-ness of it all!*
"'... There's no way out, anyway. Not until they're asleep, at least.'
'We could jump out of the window into the river.'
'We already jumped,' said Liir. 'Come on. To bed. I'm going to jump you first. It's just the next part of history, right? If we're going to be found, we may as well be found out.'"
"Trism was still asleep, his hair rucked back against the pillow. The sound of cantering horse hooves grew louder. Liir wanted to kiss Trism awake, but had the notion that the time for that was already over.
He did it anyway. Trism groaned, and made room, and after a while said, 'We don't do this sort of thing in our circle.'
Did he mean his class at St. Prowd's? His family? The Home Guard? Didn't matter. Liir replied, 'Well, your circle seems to have widened, hasn't it.'
'Or shrunk,' said Trism, reaching for his boots."
What I don't like is that the entire point of the book is Liir's search for Nor, and he never actually finds her.
But the ending was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Couldn't have done it a better way.
*le sigh*