Glass Soldiers Critique Big Gods

[maribou]

Fables 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers, by Bill Willingham et al
The only way I've kept from buying ALL of these by now is that I only let myself buy 1 per visit to the comic book store, and I only get to go to the comic book store if there is a new Buffy out. Seriously, these are so good. I keep getting more and more interested in the supporting characters, and the primary characters still stay fresh.
(106/250)

Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, by Gordon Dahlquist
Like Dumas channeling Poe, with more sex. That's a very good thing, if you didn't know. I very much appreciated the long sentences, the nearly non-stop action, the humour, and the rhythm of the dialogue.
(107/250)

Critique of Criminal Reason, by Michael Gregorio
Very well-written philosophical thriller set in Prussia at the beginning of the 19th century, featuring an aged Immanuel Kant and a fascinating young detective named Hanno Steffanis. As a mystery, it didn't really work for me because I figured everything out about halfway in and then kept feeling like the author was trying to say, 'hey, here's another FASCINATING CLUE' when, dude, I already knew what was going on. But I enjoyed watching the protagonist figure things out, so it was still worth it. The short sentences kind of weirded me out, I guess I was expecting it to be written more in the style of the period - OTOH, it was more gripping this way.
(108/250)

Ten Big Ones, by Janet Evanovich
An excellent popcorn book. I'm getting close to caught up on these, need to slow down again for a bit.
(109/250)

Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
This may be my 3rd or 4th reread of this book, and it's wearing a little bit thin. There are still some exceptionally brilliant bits though, and I really found it comforting at the end of a day when I was working mucho overtime. My usual TP book analysis: subject - organized religion; theme - freedom of thought.
(110/250)

Comments

[mvaldemar.livejournal.com]

Fables keeps getting better, too. I mean, there are plateaus, and one brief (2 issue) storyline I don't like, but as a general trend it's consistently better and richer and fuller.

[maribou]

Good to know!

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Yay, Fables!

[maribou]

YAY!

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

If you use bittorrent, you can glut. :D

[malyss.livejournal.com]

I adore Terry Pratchett, but Small Gods has never been one of my favorite Discworld books. I've never read a /bad/ Pratchett book, but Small Gods just didn't do it for me.

[maribou]

Yeah, for a long time I thought it was one of mine but now I'm thinking that (while I like it) I actually had it mixed up titularly with Feet of Clay ... ie, it's FoC that's one of my favorites.

[malyss.livejournal.com]

I'm forever partial to Reaper Man. It moved me and was the first TP book that I read. In fact, I used a quote from it at my father's funeral:

In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away -- until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only tthe core of actual existence.

[malyss.livejournal.com]

I'm forever partial to Reaper Man. It moved me and was the first TP book that I read. In fact, I used a quote from it at my father's funeral:

In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away -- until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only tthe core of actual existence.

[maribou]

I love that part.

[raisinbottom.livejournal.com]

Ray Bradbury would have read it by now.

[garretfw.livejournal.com]

I love that you have time to read and also to pack such info into so few lines. Those last two are priceless. Have a great day.

[maribou]

I'm glad you like them! I must confess it is not so much that I have time to read as that if I don't read, I can't function. So I will cheerfully neglect all manner of purported more urgent things to get some reading in. (Plus my much-loved grandfather taught me to read very quickly at a very young age.)

[maribou]

Er, that should be purported*ly* more urgent, of course.