town embroideries
Sep. 8th, 2005 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouEmbroideries, by Marjane Satrapi
Um. This was just as charming as the Persepolises but much less substantial. So I don't know whether I'm pleased or feel short-changed. Maybe both.
(181/200)
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow
This is a story about someone named Alan (more or less). Alan's father is a mountain; Alan's mother is a washing machine; Alan is a retired retail maven living in Toronto who embarks on a mad scheme to provide free wifi to his entire city. And those are the least weird things about this book. I really felt like I ought to think this is ridiculous experimentalism for the sake of experimentalism, but by a third of the way in (there are no chapters in this book, incidentally), I was completely hooked. Admittedly, I could've done with a little less preachy infodumping here and there, but that's just because I firmly believe one is NEVER in need of preachy infodumping, not because there was much of it. And the actual story was magic. Pure magic. So impressed.
(182/200)
Um. This was just as charming as the Persepolises but much less substantial. So I don't know whether I'm pleased or feel short-changed. Maybe both.
(181/200)
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow
This is a story about someone named Alan (more or less). Alan's father is a mountain; Alan's mother is a washing machine; Alan is a retired retail maven living in Toronto who embarks on a mad scheme to provide free wifi to his entire city. And those are the least weird things about this book. I really felt like I ought to think this is ridiculous experimentalism for the sake of experimentalism, but by a third of the way in (there are no chapters in this book, incidentally), I was completely hooked. Admittedly, I could've done with a little less preachy infodumping here and there, but that's just because I firmly believe one is NEVER in need of preachy infodumping, not because there was much of it. And the actual story was magic. Pure magic. So impressed.
(182/200)
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