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Feb. 29th, 2012 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings read while on vacation:
- Bits of The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu. I don't really know why I am doing this to myself, except for the fact that the bits between the racism are exciting and fun. (Murder by centipede, you guys.) I am coping by inserting notes into my kindle copy every time Sax Rohmer writes something egregiously awful. These range from "oh, come on" to "you're a bastard" to "seriously, fuck you" to "...your use of the word 'd*go' leaves me in the strange position of not being sure whether I am extra pissed off at the weird-ranging extent of your racism or oddly relieved that it encompasses people who aren't Asian." Sometimes, there are three or four notes to a page.
- About half of The Dispossessed. I really love this book - I think it is my favorite Le Guin that I've thus read. I'm really glad that I have a copy now.
- Hawkes Harbor. Which is Dark Shadows fanfic about Willie Loomis, with the serial numbers filed off. (The reviews on amazon and goodreads by people who don't know that are hilarious.) I enjoyed it immensely though it's kinda fascinating as a book because it really doesn't work as a novel. I mean, if you were reading it as a standalone thing with no knowledge of the fandom, it would not work at all because it does that thing where it assumes that the reader already knows about big canon events and thus just sort of touches on them to get to whatever gaps the author wants to work on filling. Whatever, you guys saw the show, right? I don't need to tell you the plot again, I'm going to tell you a story around that story. I've never seen that done quite that way in published fiction before. It's kinda neat. (Also, set in Delaware. I am always amused when things are set in Delaware.)
- Stephan Grundy's Beowulf. I've been meaning to buy the ebook of this forever and finally got around to it. Man, it has been years since I've read any of Mr Grundy's fiction - I had forgotten how much I loved it. Rhinegold and Attila's Treasure are such important books to me (I'm not going to say that reading Rhinegold made me a heathen, but it certainly didn't hurt) and I'm very glad to be able to add to that collection. I'm going to have to reread the other two when I'm done with this one. Oh, the hardship.
Alas that I have to go back to work tomorrow and cannot simply stay home and read.
- Bits of The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu. I don't really know why I am doing this to myself, except for the fact that the bits between the racism are exciting and fun. (Murder by centipede, you guys.) I am coping by inserting notes into my kindle copy every time Sax Rohmer writes something egregiously awful. These range from "oh, come on" to "you're a bastard" to "seriously, fuck you" to "...your use of the word 'd*go' leaves me in the strange position of not being sure whether I am extra pissed off at the weird-ranging extent of your racism or oddly relieved that it encompasses people who aren't Asian." Sometimes, there are three or four notes to a page.
- About half of The Dispossessed. I really love this book - I think it is my favorite Le Guin that I've thus read. I'm really glad that I have a copy now.
- Hawkes Harbor. Which is Dark Shadows fanfic about Willie Loomis, with the serial numbers filed off. (The reviews on amazon and goodreads by people who don't know that are hilarious.) I enjoyed it immensely though it's kinda fascinating as a book because it really doesn't work as a novel. I mean, if you were reading it as a standalone thing with no knowledge of the fandom, it would not work at all because it does that thing where it assumes that the reader already knows about big canon events and thus just sort of touches on them to get to whatever gaps the author wants to work on filling. Whatever, you guys saw the show, right? I don't need to tell you the plot again, I'm going to tell you a story around that story. I've never seen that done quite that way in published fiction before. It's kinda neat. (Also, set in Delaware. I am always amused when things are set in Delaware.)
- Stephan Grundy's Beowulf. I've been meaning to buy the ebook of this forever and finally got around to it. Man, it has been years since I've read any of Mr Grundy's fiction - I had forgotten how much I loved it. Rhinegold and Attila's Treasure are such important books to me (I'm not going to say that reading Rhinegold made me a heathen, but it certainly didn't hurt) and I'm very glad to be able to add to that collection. I'm going to have to reread the other two when I'm done with this one. Oh, the hardship.
Alas that I have to go back to work tomorrow and cannot simply stay home and read.
