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aggh (but mostly books)
Sep. 13th, 2014 06:17 pmIt's been a brutal week (highlights: I auditioned people for the first time! All the volunteering and such started up again! etc) and I began developing a cold and then I think I gave myself food poisoning yesterday, which was miserable. I feel much better today though and I'm very grateful, because the coming week is going to be even busier. I am sorry about the meme post, I swear I'm composing my comments...slowly.
In other news, I did finish two major novels: Les Miserables and The Dispossessed1, both of which I feel unable to review properly. Immediate impressions in this entry for now.
OK first, LM: It has taken me an entire year to read this. By my phone app's statistics, I've put in 30+ hours--I'd read the book when I arrived early and had a few minutes, and as you can tell from my sporadic book reviews I've read many many books in the meantime.
( I wish! )
I don't know why it took me so long to get around to reading LeGuin again. I read the Earthsea cycle early enough that it's one of my Childhood Formative Novels and have heard about The Left Hand of Darkness, The Gift, The Dispossessed, and so on for literal years and never moved to pick them up. I should have.
( The Dispossessed! )
Another thought that occurs to me is that I might put up a character-hating post. I love most characters, and attempt to excuse too many of them of everything, but there are some excellently hateable characters that I really cannot stand. And when I say hateable I mean the sort of characters along the lines of Angel Clare, John Thorpe, George Wickham from the Lizzie Bennett Diaries, madame and monsieur Thénardier, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr and Mrs John Dashwood, etc. Sometimes I read novels and feel positively deranged.
OK, it's now way past my bedtime and I can't talk about The Dispossessed enough but I have to post this, I've got four entries in progress and I refuse to add to that number.
1Wikipedia informs me that one of the translated titles of Les Misérables into English that never stuck was actually "The Dispossessed" which is a cute coincidence.
In other news, I did finish two major novels: Les Miserables and The Dispossessed1, both of which I feel unable to review properly. Immediate impressions in this entry for now.
OK first, LM: It has taken me an entire year to read this. By my phone app's statistics, I've put in 30+ hours--I'd read the book when I arrived early and had a few minutes, and as you can tell from my sporadic book reviews I've read many many books in the meantime.
( I wish! )
I don't know why it took me so long to get around to reading LeGuin again. I read the Earthsea cycle early enough that it's one of my Childhood Formative Novels and have heard about The Left Hand of Darkness, The Gift, The Dispossessed, and so on for literal years and never moved to pick them up. I should have.
( The Dispossessed! )
Another thought that occurs to me is that I might put up a character-hating post. I love most characters, and attempt to excuse too many of them of everything, but there are some excellently hateable characters that I really cannot stand. And when I say hateable I mean the sort of characters along the lines of Angel Clare, John Thorpe, George Wickham from the Lizzie Bennett Diaries, madame and monsieur Thénardier, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr and Mrs John Dashwood, etc. Sometimes I read novels and feel positively deranged.
OK, it's now way past my bedtime and I can't talk about The Dispossessed enough but I have to post this, I've got four entries in progress and I refuse to add to that number.
1Wikipedia informs me that one of the translated titles of Les Misérables into English that never stuck was actually "The Dispossessed" which is a cute coincidence.
