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Splinters and book-thoughts
Apr. 20th, 2006 04:41 pmToday is day three of the splinter.
The tweezers are locked in a suitcase in the Attic of Doom. I am not going looking for them alone, since Dearest Mother hid them - well, forgot that they'd stayed in the suitcase - and I haven't a hope in hell of finding them without her. I tried using a nailclippers (gently, gently), but, alas, the amount of pressure sufficient to get a good grip is a hairsbreadth away from the amount of pressure needed to snip right through, and I am falling on the wrong hair.
If I can't get rid of it soon, I'll be poking around with ye sharpe kniveses, out of desperation. (It itches. Like hell. And stings.)
In other news this week, I read Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon*, and I'm now quite miffed that I can't get the sequel, Academ's Fury**, without resorting to Amazon and the hundred thousand ills of shipping***.
Furies of Calderon is a solid fantasy in the epic tradition. There are no real surprises, but what sets it apart is interesting world-building - the magic system is new and unusual in its twist, at least to me - and interesting characters. Apart from the 'bad guy' - the sections written from his POV are a bit boring, to me: I'll have to go back and re-read to figure out precisely why that's so.
(Something else that sort of irritated me: it's written, I think, in a rather distant version of limited third POV, and I prefer to get somewhat closer to the characters than Butcher's style brought me. Also, the women, as characters? There's something slightly off, to me, about their reactions, all of them. Which again I'll have to re-read to figure out exactly what.)
It's fast-paced, fun and interesting, but hardly ground-breaking. That said, it's enjoyable enough that I want to read the next one ASAP.
ETA: With thanks to the advice of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
etumukutenyak, ye splinter has been removed. At least, I think it's been removed. Hopefully. At least most of it has.
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*Which was, amazingly enough, available in Hodges Figgis for less than the price of an arm and a leg.
**Which I saw a couple of weeks ago in Forbidden Planet, but has since disappeared, leaving me miffed, to say the least.
***We wants it now, precious, damnit!
The tweezers are locked in a suitcase in the Attic of Doom. I am not going looking for them alone, since Dearest Mother hid them - well, forgot that they'd stayed in the suitcase - and I haven't a hope in hell of finding them without her. I tried using a nailclippers (gently, gently), but, alas, the amount of pressure sufficient to get a good grip is a hairsbreadth away from the amount of pressure needed to snip right through, and I am falling on the wrong hair.
If I can't get rid of it soon, I'll be poking around with ye sharpe kniveses, out of desperation. (It itches. Like hell. And stings.)
In other news this week, I read Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon*, and I'm now quite miffed that I can't get the sequel, Academ's Fury**, without resorting to Amazon and the hundred thousand ills of shipping***.
Furies of Calderon is a solid fantasy in the epic tradition. There are no real surprises, but what sets it apart is interesting world-building - the magic system is new and unusual in its twist, at least to me - and interesting characters. Apart from the 'bad guy' - the sections written from his POV are a bit boring, to me: I'll have to go back and re-read to figure out precisely why that's so.
(Something else that sort of irritated me: it's written, I think, in a rather distant version of limited third POV, and I prefer to get somewhat closer to the characters than Butcher's style brought me. Also, the women, as characters? There's something slightly off, to me, about their reactions, all of them. Which again I'll have to re-read to figure out exactly what.)
It's fast-paced, fun and interesting, but hardly ground-breaking. That said, it's enjoyable enough that I want to read the next one ASAP.
ETA: With thanks to the advice of
etumukutenyak, ye splinter has been removed. At least, I think it's been removed. Hopefully. At least most of it has.----------
*Which was, amazingly enough, available in Hodges Figgis for less than the price of an arm and a leg.
**Which I saw a couple of weeks ago in Forbidden Planet, but has since disappeared, leaving me miffed, to say the least.
***We wants it now, precious, damnit!
