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danceswithwords

Is it Friday yet?

Jan 04, 2006 15:02

Happy birthday to molly_may, one of my very favorite people on LJ. May the coming year bring you great joy.

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I move deeper into Season 4 of Stargate...

( Stargate 4.14 - The Serpent's Venom )

my stargate is pastede on yay, books: 2005, books: 2006, knitting

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danceswithwords January 5 2006, 03:54:24 UTC

in Turkish, Snow is "kar" and the city where the story takes place is Kars, so partly the title is a pun on that.

Aha! That explains at least some of it. I kept trying to locate patterns as to when it was snowing and how it related to Ka's interactions, but ended up throwing in the towel because it was so omnipresent.

I'm an enormous sucker for historical mysteries that really delve into the period, a la The Name of the Rose. I'm starting to get very incensed on Sarah Blundy's behalf.

brynnmck January 5 2006, 00:39:55 UTC

I am disturbed at how much the Viking Chicken Hat actually resembles chicken skin. EW.

Also, I keep meaning to tell you that I started Girl in Landscape, and I'm not very far into it, but I've been really compelled from the start. Thank you again! It's so fun to have something new to read that I wouldn't have found for myself.

danceswithwords January 5 2006, 03:57:58 UTC

The thing about the Viking Chiken Hat is that I thought it was kind of cool and amusing in a retro, ultra-ironic hipster sort of way--until I realized it was a baby hat. There's no way a baby can be ironic. I just... Then again, having been exposed to the horrors of You Knit What?, I shouldn't be surprised.

Oh! Please let me know what you think of Girl in Landscape once you've finished it!

writteninstars January 5 2006, 03:43:58 UTC

I thought I was the only person in the universe who found Curious Incident... overhyped. It was gimmicky and mildly interesting, but that's all, in this reader's humble opinion. :-)

danceswithwords January 5 2006, 04:02:20 UTC

I actually really enjoyed the first 2/3rds of it. I don't know anybody with autism, but the narration rang true and was very well thought out. (My father is a mathematician. The interest in numbers and precise ordering of certain things seemed familiar.) I was very unhappy with the ending, though; I can understand why the narrator thought things would be swell going forward, but at the beginning of the book the writing was nuanced enough to take in the narrator's POV while hinting at more complex things the narrator didn't understand. The happily-ever-after ending felt tacked, rushed, and false. Bleah.

molly_may January 5 2006, 04:56:51 UTC

Thank you so much!

I also liked The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time until the ending, which was disappointing. Actually, the entire subplot about the mother left me cold. But for the most part, I thought the narrator's POV was fascinating and touching.

danceswithwords January 5 2006, 06:43:05 UTC

I also thought the narrative POV was very effective. I actually liked the mother when it was clear that she just couldn't handle this strange and demanding kid, that she tried and failed and hated herself for it but left because she could not deal. It was flawed and human and very real. What I couldn't understand was what changed, why she became more able to handle it after a separation; there was never any explanation for that, and without the buildup, it didn't work.