Reading List

[rolanni]

...basically just a list for my own information...

The Carousel Keepers, Carrie Papa
The Celestial Steam Locomotive, Michael Coney
Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear
Fire Sanctuary, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Pretender, C.J. Cherryh
Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt
Skeletons in the Zahara, Dean King
Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail, Charlaine Harris
Saturday Night at Moody's Diner, Tim Sample
Fruits Basket, Volumes 8-13, Natsuki Takaya
Uglies, Scott Westerfield
Pretties, Scott Westerfield
Narbonic, Volume 3, Shaenon K. Garrity
Murder with Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Murder with Puffins, Donna Andrews
The Man Behind the Iron Mask, John Noone
It Happened in Maine, Gail Underwood Parker
Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees

Comments

Lud-in-the-Mist

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

Aha! You will be reading Lud-in-the-Mist? I would be very interested to hear your reactions to it.

For what it's worth, my own comments (with assorted replies and discussion) were posted to Usenet earlier this year, in the rec.arts.sf.written group. Here (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/576d541d7f902ae8?dmode=source) is a link to them.

David Tate

Re: Lud-in-the-Mist

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've just finished reading Lud-in-the-Mist, and I'm still chewing on it.

My thoughts thus far...

The story is quite beautifully written and I was glad to read it for the words alone, though I wish the copy editor had gone through one more time and cleaned house. The edition I have is rife with typos.

The structure of the story isn't what I'm used to for genre fantasy -- it reminded me a little of Alan Garner's novels in the way it sort of rambled dreamily along and then stopped without any ...heroic resolution.

I wish that Fairyland had been as well-realized as Lud.

I'm not entirely at ease with the argument that Art and Imagination are inevitably painful and alienating.

The on-going explications of the Law, it's purpose and form, were priceless.

Re: Lud-in-the-Mist

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that you don't think my take on the book was completely off-base. I agree completely about the treatment of The Law. And the copy-editing, for that matter, which was the worst I've seen in years.

On the other hand, I was content not to spend more time in Fairyland. I was afraid the book might wander off into a psychedelic fog and never get back.