tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879027.post6159536349256943852..comments2024-03-18T22:30:27.929-07:00Comments on Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog: Hugo Reading - NovellaTeganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12625983869465172976noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879027.post-77305798413794585332015-07-02T19:25:07.687-07:002015-07-02T19:25:07.687-07:00The only irritating thing about BBDC is how repeti...The only irritating thing about BBDC is how repetitive and predictable it was. The ending wasn't a surprise at all based on how much the theme was pounded into the readers. It started out well enough, but rapidly turned into violence porn.<br /><br />Flow gets worse and worse upon reflection. The lack of female characters, the lack of an actual plot, the lack of a resolution... I got caught up in the concept and forgot the importance of story while reading it.Teganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12625983869465172976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879027.post-20497384091430545722015-07-02T19:14:46.935-07:002015-07-02T19:14:46.935-07:00Keeping in mind "different strokes for differ...Keeping in mind "different strokes for different folks"....<br /><br />I haven't gotten to the works from John C. Wright yet, but I found "Flow" to be only marginally above Noah level. I am thoroughly enjoying "Big Boys Don't Cry" right now. It will likely go in first place.<br /><br />What is puzzling to me is the Publisher's Weekly note that precedes BBDC. It seems to me that BBDC inspires reflection that supports the general leftist perspective on war rather than being a story that irritates the left.<br /><br />Very puzzling.<br /><br />Regards,<br />DannDannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15304572506298209357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879027.post-54250301829772340292015-07-02T06:11:34.554-07:002015-07-02T06:11:34.554-07:00Yeah, I said Flow would stay with me... and the mo...Yeah, I said Flow would stay with me... and the more I think about it the less I like it. It's like one of those books that's fun to read while you are reading it but afterwards you feel like you've wasted your time on it. As a story I enjoyed it, but then I started to think about it and... bleh. That it was the best of the nominees, in my opinion, is truly pathetic.Teganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12625983869465172976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879027.post-86367012063693102982015-07-02T05:27:46.322-07:002015-07-02T05:27:46.322-07:00The Wright stories... the kindest thing I can say ...The Wright stories... the kindest thing I can say is I thought he was good at hinting at wonder, but when it came time to write the wonder out in full he could never stick the landing. I got the impression that he knew that, and was trying to avoid having to write the wonder out in full, hence his tendency to tell instead of show--to summarize in the next pedestrian scene instead of writing out the magical scene.<br /><br />I also found him more than mildly offensive. In Pale Realms, where the dystopic future is implied to be Islamic and the Devil claims to be the Prince of Freethinkers (as a Freethinker myself I said "this one goes to sixth place on the strength of that alone.") In One Bright Star where unthinking obedience is Good and questioning is Bad (do what the cat says even when it seems obviously harmful.) In The Plural where he tells Jack (about the woman he's been given) "Free her or marry her" and in One Bright Star where he says "you murdered your own child?" to a man whose rape victim had an abortion--in both cases as if the woman is some kind of puppet and her choice matters nothing.<br /><br />OTOH, given Flow's attitude toward women (did you notice that everyone who does anything worth mentioning in that story is male, and the women are only for sex? And don't even have *names,* aside from the protag's mother? And what is *with* that BS about breasts?<br /><br />Tastes certainly do differ.<br /><br />Given what the rest have been like, I'm not looking forward to Big Boys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com