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2 Jun 2004 01:08 amFinished reading Dying of the Light yesterday. It was very good, powerful themes, beautiful ideas, dark and nostalgic in an inspirationnal way.
It reminded me of CS Friedman's In Conquest Born : both describe a very harsh and implacable society that we should hate but are too interesting and fascinating for us to. I liked some of the stuff in the small details, the whisperjewels, the subtility of the characters, the fact we are never told when Garse tell us the story of Vicary's heroes, but we can guess it by looking at his name...
One of the thing I love the most with Martin's writing, of course, is his ambiguity. There's no moral manicheism, ever with him. There's people and they all have their own values, their ideals, their own justifications. And they come into conflict. Can't have all of them. Can't have love, and honour, and compassion, and loyalty, and justice, and peacefulness. Not at the same time. That's true in A song of ice and fire as much as in this book.
And also, I love how the book is well named. It's all about how we act, what decisions we take, what meaning we gives, in front of the dark emptiness.
They are things to be criticized too. This was his first book, I heared, and it doesn't go as smoothly as others of him. But it's a very good book.
EDIT : Besides how can I not love a book who has the first template for my sweet Sandor ? Yeah Bretan's a rather minor character in Dying of the Light, but he's got the look, the voice, and cynism and the intensity. Thought, he's not as cool as the Hound yet ;)
On another topic altogether, all those personality tests, gawked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Oh, and happy birthdaymiss_rynn !
It reminded me of CS Friedman's In Conquest Born : both describe a very harsh and implacable society that we should hate but are too interesting and fascinating for us to. I liked some of the stuff in the small details, the whisperjewels, the subtility of the characters, the fact we are never told when Garse tell us the story of Vicary's heroes, but we can guess it by looking at his name...
One of the thing I love the most with Martin's writing, of course, is his ambiguity. There's no moral manicheism, ever with him. There's people and they all have their own values, their ideals, their own justifications. And they come into conflict. Can't have all of them. Can't have love, and honour, and compassion, and loyalty, and justice, and peacefulness. Not at the same time. That's true in A song of ice and fire as much as in this book.
And also, I love how the book is well named. It's all about how we act, what decisions we take, what meaning we gives, in front of the dark emptiness.
They are things to be criticized too. This was his first book, I heared, and it doesn't go as smoothly as others of him. But it's a very good book.
EDIT : Besides how can I not love a book who has the first template for my sweet Sandor ? Yeah Bretan's a rather minor character in Dying of the Light, but he's got the look, the voice, and cynism and the intensity. Thought, he's not as cool as the Hound yet ;)
On another topic altogether, all those personality tests, gawked from
iichan and shisakura and shineko( Read more... )
Oh, and happy birthday
miss_rynn !