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May. 21st, 2009 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreOkay, you guys, I am finally reading The Historian. And yes, people have been telling me to read it for years but mostly, the people telling me about it kept telling me about the descriptions of the scenery which, okay, is lovely but is not really what I read for.
That, plus so many people telling me to read it, which made me contrarily not want to read it. Because that is what excessive hype does.
But besides scenery, it has beautifully evocative writing and just by reading the first several pages I get the feeling that the author will be able to handle subtle horror and thus I am made happy by the book thus far. Alas that I have to wait till I get home to continue reading, now that my break is over.
I do wish we had a paperback copy at the library, though. The hardback is huge.
That, plus so many people telling me to read it, which made me contrarily not want to read it. Because that is what excessive hype does.
But besides scenery, it has beautifully evocative writing and just by reading the first several pages I get the feeling that the author will be able to handle subtle horror and thus I am made happy by the book thus far. Alas that I have to wait till I get home to continue reading, now that my break is over.
I do wish we had a paperback copy at the library, though. The hardback is huge.
