Brothel for Sorrow, Two for Joy
Nov. 26th, 2005 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouBrothel, by Alexa Albert
The author seems to have spent a considerable amount of time at the Mustang Ranch, a brothel in Nevada. Her examination of the various aspects of the prostitutes' lives was thorough and balanced. Still on this sex-worker/Las Vegas kick, apparently, as I remain interested in learning more.
(231/200)
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, by Clive Woodall
This book should have been good. For one thing, it has a very very very very lovely cover (props to Tim Jessell, the cover illustrator). For another thing, it has an intriguing plot. Magpies decide to wipe out the rest of England's birds, small robin must battle against the odds to fulfill his destiny and save the kingdom. Okay, maybe that's only intriguing if you're as much of a sucker for anthropomorphized epics as I am. Anyway, it should've been a good book. This Is Not A Good Book. It's boring and dull and clunky and poorly written by someone whose vocabulary seems good enough that they could've done better. And really, I think I like interspecies antagonisms better because otherwise one runs the considerable risk of becoming very frustrated with the author's generalizations about an entire freaking species. Magpies are not evil, dammit. They are shiny and curious and enthusiastic.
(232/200)
The author seems to have spent a considerable amount of time at the Mustang Ranch, a brothel in Nevada. Her examination of the various aspects of the prostitutes' lives was thorough and balanced. Still on this sex-worker/Las Vegas kick, apparently, as I remain interested in learning more.
(231/200)
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, by Clive Woodall
This book should have been good. For one thing, it has a very very very very lovely cover (props to Tim Jessell, the cover illustrator). For another thing, it has an intriguing plot. Magpies decide to wipe out the rest of England's birds, small robin must battle against the odds to fulfill his destiny and save the kingdom. Okay, maybe that's only intriguing if you're as much of a sucker for anthropomorphized epics as I am. Anyway, it should've been a good book. This Is Not A Good Book. It's boring and dull and clunky and poorly written by someone whose vocabulary seems good enough that they could've done better. And really, I think I like interspecies antagonisms better because otherwise one runs the considerable risk of becoming very frustrated with the author's generalizations about an entire freaking species. Magpies are not evil, dammit. They are shiny and curious and enthusiastic.
(232/200)
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:28 am (UTC)