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knullabulla / Sheri !
I finished reading Kushiel's Avatar yesterday. Thought it was fun getting back to that colourred world, luscious prose and SM thematics, I must say it has ot be the weaker book of the three. At least in the others she actually tried to have plot, as obvious and contrived as it was. In this one there were no intrigues to talk of, and the mysteries were not worth talking about. Some of the episodes were way too reminescent of what happened earlier (thought Carey is aware of it and mentions it to give it coherence) and there were little new character development or new characters to speak of. (With two or three exceptions). I did like the scrappy kid, and I heard she would write about him in the future, so that'll get me interrested. The ending was too easy and happily IMO, and it was rather agravating to see that every plans went according what had been expected by the heroine. Carey needs to read more Miles : no plan survives contact with the enemy.Which reminds me, is the new Bujold book out in paperback ? Need to check. Also get Guy Gabriel Kay's Last Light of the Sun.
Anyway, despite all those criticism it's still a very enjoyable reading. Carey writes beautifuly, in a very lyrical way. I love her world building and the twists to History and real world culture she plays with. And I love the whole thematic of "what yields is not always weak". So from that side it was a good reading.
I had a Cowboy Bebop dream tonight. All I remember of it is that it included a shooting contest and reincarnation. ^_^
knullabulla / Sheri !I finished reading Kushiel's Avatar yesterday. Thought it was fun getting back to that colourred world, luscious prose and SM thematics, I must say it has ot be the weaker book of the three. At least in the others she actually tried to have plot, as obvious and contrived as it was. In this one there were no intrigues to talk of, and the mysteries were not worth talking about. Some of the episodes were way too reminescent of what happened earlier (thought Carey is aware of it and mentions it to give it coherence) and there were little new character development or new characters to speak of. (With two or three exceptions). I did like the scrappy kid, and I heard she would write about him in the future, so that'll get me interrested. The ending was too easy and happily IMO, and it was rather agravating to see that every plans went according what had been expected by the heroine. Carey needs to read more Miles : no plan survives contact with the enemy.Which reminds me, is the new Bujold book out in paperback ? Need to check. Also get Guy Gabriel Kay's Last Light of the Sun.
Anyway, despite all those criticism it's still a very enjoyable reading. Carey writes beautifuly, in a very lyrical way. I love her world building and the twists to History and real world culture she plays with. And I love the whole thematic of "what yields is not always weak". So from that side it was a good reading.
I had a Cowboy Bebop dream tonight. All I remember of it is that it included a shooting contest and reincarnation. ^_^
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Date: 2 April 2004 07:52 am (UTC)I love that theme too...
He is not dead that sometime hath a fall;
The sun returneth that was under the cloud;
And when fortune hath spit out all her gall,
I trust good luck to me shall be allowed.
For I have seen a ship into haven fall
After the storm hath broke both mast and shroud.
And eke the willow that stoopeth with the wind,
Doth rise again, and greater wood doth bind.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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