bookish meme

[etrangere]

meme stolen from meganbmoore

1. Favourite Book? Impossible to say just one! Maybe Greg Egan's Distress.

2. Favourite Author? Again with the just one. Leguin, Bujold, Egan, Friedman, Zelazny, Gaiman, Kushner...
3. Favourite Genre? SFF.
4. Favourite series of books? A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRMartin. Also the Amber series by Zelazny and the Vorkosigan

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

9. Favourite couple? Richard and Alec in Kushner's Swordspoint.

♥ (mostly Richard) :)

I finally finished Kushiel's Mercy the other day...

[etrangere]

I think I prefer Alec actually! He's so wonderfully broken and woobie-like yet so vicious and sarcastic at the same time ♥

what did you think of it?

[hamsterwoman]

I like Alec as a character but he, metaphorically, he makes my shoulderblades itch, if you know what I mean. He is very believably and painfully broken... I think I tend to prefer (fictional) people who are broken in a happy, or at least composed, way myself. (Although I don't think I liked him that much better in Privilege of the Sword, where he is kind of closer to that.)

But I simply adore Richard, because he is such an unexpected character for his role, I find.

My usual lengthy ramblings are forthcoming, but in brief, Mercy surprised me by actually making me like Sidonie (is it me, or did Carey finally give her an actual personality in this one?) Didn't like the worldbuilding as much in this one, and the plot was a bit too much with the spiraling and the meta (and the sloooow for the first third of the book), but it was about what I'd expect. But I feel cheated out of tje Maislin/Imriel/Mavros/Lucius orgy with Sidonie and Amarante watching that the book clearly should have ended on.

[ariss_tenoh]

This looks like fun..*steals meme*

[etrangere]

Je te dirais quand je l'aurais lu!! C'était un cadeau de mes parents qui l'aiment bien. Moi je sais pas encore.