What I hated about Peshawar Lancers was that it didn't give people the virtues of their flaws. There's a South African who is a racist, and an idiot, and he smokes... and all that's OK, but he's also a traitor and a coward, which is somehow too much piled on unnecessarily.
I can enjoy a good book with airships and the Raj as much as anyone, and I wanted to like it, but it kept on somehow cheating on its own terms, so I gave up on it profoundly dissatisfied.
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Date: 2006-09-09 06:50 pm (UTC)I can enjoy a good book with airships and the Raj as much as anyone, and I wanted to like it, but it kept on somehow cheating on its own terms, so I gave up on it profoundly dissatisfied.