Words, words, words
Dec. 3rd, 2005 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbWordcount!
Progress:
"Dreamdark, or, the Confused-Title Story"
New words: c. 1000
Previous words: c. 800
Total relevent words: c. 1800
Old-and-now-irrelevant-but-I'm-still-counting-them words: c. 20,000
Total words: 22,000
Estimated words required: 120,000
Unpleasant things that characters were subjected to: rain, mud, fear, close encounters of the sharp and pointy kind, deaths.
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My current reading is eclectic again. Sigh. Started a new book on the First Crusade - the first book about the crusades I've ever read, so should be interesting. I'm reading for college, of course: art and architecture books this week, because Thursday = test. And I'm halfway through CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station.
I'm feeling somewhat ambivalent about Downbelow Station. The prose is solid, the characters are solid and interesting - even if they do all seem to sound alike, and come from the anti-hero end of the scale - but... I dunno. I'm not being gripped, but yet I feel that I should be.
Partly it's the humanocentric view of the future. Partly it's because I can almost see real-world politics informing the text (uh-oh, literary phrase. help, please), but mostly, I think, it's because I could care less if all these characters went to hell in the same handbasket.
I can almost identify with Signy Mallory. But not really. They're just a little bit too far around that corner of unlikeableness (or non-entity-ness) for me to form any kind of connection.
::sigh::
I'll finish the book - I'm interested enough to want to find out how it ends - but I don't think (unless something major changes in the next few hundred pages) that I'll be getting any more of Cherryh's SF. Although, interestingly enough, I've read other books by the same author and found them much easier to connect to.
Question, if anyone's out there who's read Downbelow Station and feels like answering: am I the only one who feels this way about it? Interested to know.
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I'm off to type up my wordcount now, and to try to get it to make sense. *g*
Progress:
"Dreamdark, or, the Confused-Title Story"
New words: c. 1000
Previous words: c. 800
Total relevent words: c. 1800
Old-and-now-irrelevant-but-I'm-still-counting-them words: c. 20,000
Total words: 22,000
Estimated words required: 120,000
Unpleasant things that characters were subjected to: rain, mud, fear, close encounters of the sharp and pointy kind, deaths.
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21,800 / 120,000 (17.0%) |
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My current reading is eclectic again. Sigh. Started a new book on the First Crusade - the first book about the crusades I've ever read, so should be interesting. I'm reading for college, of course: art and architecture books this week, because Thursday = test. And I'm halfway through CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station.
I'm feeling somewhat ambivalent about Downbelow Station. The prose is solid, the characters are solid and interesting - even if they do all seem to sound alike, and come from the anti-hero end of the scale - but... I dunno. I'm not being gripped, but yet I feel that I should be.
Partly it's the humanocentric view of the future. Partly it's because I can almost see real-world politics informing the text (uh-oh, literary phrase. help, please), but mostly, I think, it's because I could care less if all these characters went to hell in the same handbasket.
I can almost identify with Signy Mallory. But not really. They're just a little bit too far around that corner of unlikeableness (or non-entity-ness) for me to form any kind of connection.
::sigh::
I'll finish the book - I'm interested enough to want to find out how it ends - but I don't think (unless something major changes in the next few hundred pages) that I'll be getting any more of Cherryh's SF. Although, interestingly enough, I've read other books by the same author and found them much easier to connect to.
Question, if anyone's out there who's read Downbelow Station and feels like answering: am I the only one who feels this way about it? Interested to know.
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I'm off to type up my wordcount now, and to try to get it to make sense. *g*
