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What I've just read:
the last light of the sun, which, well, i wanted to know how it ended and that's pretty much the only reason i finished it. it was wordy and repetitive in a "this needs a good line editor" kind of way, and it had some pointless and incredibly tangential side forays into minor characters' lives, and i still can't figure out what it is that i don't like about how kay wrote the women in this book. oh, and there was an utterly ridiculous pairing at the end, in the sense that there was no connection between the two characters and no real reason for them to suddenly decide they wanted to be with each other. i guess the guy decided he needed a wife, and the girl wanted to get off the island, and figured the guy was as good a means as any. i guess. and the fairies were kind of stupid. i did like the viking equivalents, tho, in general. and at least i finished it.
What I'm reading now:
alif the unseen, which i really, really like. it's got technobabble and computers and programming and language and djinn and some random bits of religion and faith and belief and politics and a star trek reference. and occasionally it's funny. and i just really like how it's written.
What I'm reading next:
there's still a pile of comics on my dining room table. otherwise, i don't know. i should read something i already own but i think i'll end up buying the second rivers of london book, the title of which totally escapes me.
unrelated, i posted my bigbang! finally! but will do the post-mortem post tomorrow, for them what might be interested. i have to make a pdf and then i can write something else, like perhaps the friar and the heretic. (wrenlet asked me a good question, namely why does the friar start questioning his faith? and i have no idea. i want to start writing it from the end, because i know the end, but that seems wrong.) and i can start doing research for next year's bang! because it's apparently always historicals with me.
the last light of the sun, which, well, i wanted to know how it ended and that's pretty much the only reason i finished it. it was wordy and repetitive in a "this needs a good line editor" kind of way, and it had some pointless and incredibly tangential side forays into minor characters' lives, and i still can't figure out what it is that i don't like about how kay wrote the women in this book. oh, and there was an utterly ridiculous pairing at the end, in the sense that there was no connection between the two characters and no real reason for them to suddenly decide they wanted to be with each other. i guess the guy decided he needed a wife, and the girl wanted to get off the island, and figured the guy was as good a means as any. i guess. and the fairies were kind of stupid. i did like the viking equivalents, tho, in general. and at least i finished it.
What I'm reading now:
alif the unseen, which i really, really like. it's got technobabble and computers and programming and language and djinn and some random bits of religion and faith and belief and politics and a star trek reference. and occasionally it's funny. and i just really like how it's written.
What I'm reading next:
there's still a pile of comics on my dining room table. otherwise, i don't know. i should read something i already own but i think i'll end up buying the second rivers of london book, the title of which totally escapes me.
unrelated, i posted my bigbang! finally! but will do the post-mortem post tomorrow, for them what might be interested. i have to make a pdf and then i can write something else, like perhaps the friar and the heretic. (wrenlet asked me a good question, namely why does the friar start questioning his faith? and i have no idea. i want to start writing it from the end, because i know the end, but that seems wrong.) and i can start doing research for next year's bang! because it's apparently always historicals with me.