Going on vacation this week, nice to let my folks see their grandson. Loaded the kindle with library books. So i will finish June up with a Wise Man's Fear reread, Martin's Fever Dream, and a reread of I Shall Wear Midnight, which I am iffy on only because Kindle and footnotes kinda suck.
Oh, and i enjoyed Martha Wells alot, will fir sure read more from her.
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June 2012 Reading Thread
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 02:12 PM
Finished The Quincunx by Charles Palliser.
It could be summarised in one sentence: Things go wrong. Horribly, repetitively, badly, deatly so. For almost 800 pages.
Seriously, ASOIAF is really cheery in contrast.
You also learn everything you every wanted to know and more about inheritance laws of 19th century England.
What makes the book more difficult, apart from all the legal technobabble is that it is written in period English, and often phonetically too.
Also, we're not really used to somebody saying: you have been a wicked, naughty boy! in a completely straight way.
It's pretty good though, the effort to write like Dickens under a bad depression certainly needs to be honored, and the story is really complex and only slowly resolves itself in the course of the book.
It could be summarised in one sentence: Things go wrong. Horribly, repetitively, badly, deatly so. For almost 800 pages.
Seriously, ASOIAF is really cheery in contrast.
You also learn everything you every wanted to know and more about inheritance laws of 19th century England.
What makes the book more difficult, apart from all the legal technobabble is that it is written in period English, and often phonetically too.
Also, we're not really used to somebody saying: you have been a wicked, naughty boy! in a completely straight way.
It's pretty good though, the effort to write like Dickens under a bad depression certainly needs to be honored, and the story is really complex and only slowly resolves itself in the course of the book.
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so totally yay
Posted 30 June 2012 - 02:38 PM
Finished Evil for Evil and started The Escapement. Expect to finish the trilogy up this week, intrigued to see how it all ends up.
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Now, what did we learn?
Posted 30 June 2012 - 02:56 PM
I know this tread is about to die, but didnt want to make a new thread for a simple question. For those that have read a bit of Eco, where is agood place to start? I just learned our used book store has a large selection of his, and i would like to try it when i get back from vaca.
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Ireland's Secret Shame
Posted 30 June 2012 - 03:59 PM
SkynJay, on 30 June 2012 - 02:56 PM, said:
I know this tread is about to die, but didnt want to make a new thread for a simple question. For those that have read a bit of Eco, where is agood place to start? I just learned our used book store has a large selection of his, and i would like to try it when i get back from vaca.
Has to be The Name of the Rose. It's not just the fact that a movie was made about it that makes this his most popular book.
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 04:17 PM
I also read Foucault's Pendulum, which is a bit less heady than Name of the Rose, and good fun. And does all the things right at which Dan Brown sucks 
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so totally yay
Posted 30 June 2012 - 05:22 PM
Name of the Rose is the only Eco book I have read, but it was most excellent. Highly recommend. Which reminds me that I've been meaning to check out his other stuff--although now I kind of want to re-read NotR...
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Posted 07 December 2012 - 02:54 PM
eta: post in wrong place
Edited by Lux Starkgaryen, 07 December 2012 - 02:55 PM.
