Comments | lady_schrapnell: As promised

lady_schrapnell

As promised

Apr 10, 2007 10:51

I said in my last post that I'd probably be saying more about Philip Reeve's Here Lies Arthur soon, but I didn't expect it to be quite this soon. I finished it this afternoon and have already sent off two (probably fairly incomprehensible) texts about it and talked as much as I possibly could with OD, who hasn't yet read it. This is definitely ( Read more... )

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steepholm April 10 2007, 23:08:42 UTC

I definitely want to read this book! But I worry (in advance) about that sense of loss, too. It's fear of precisely that which has kept me from reading Twain's Connecticut Yankee all these years. Myth and cynicism don't generally mix well, I suspect, though myth and humour may.

On the other hand, I really like Troilus and Cressida, so go figure.

lady_schrapnell April 11 2007, 08:23:32 UTC

Myth and cynicism don't generally mix well, I suspect, though myth and humour may.

Oh, trust you to say what I rambled about for a couple of paragraphs in half a sentence! Never mind - you're forgiven. And I guess the text makes a bit more sense now too, and you can see why I was thinking quite a lot about the different types of loss felt at the endings of various books. And rereading the 'Myth and Magic' section in Four British Fantasists on the end of the Dark is Rising sequence.