More book reactions
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jack* Brothers in Arms: Miles' orders are described as copied and pasted from Ivan's in such a way that it seems natural, yet should be a great clue because, in fact, they were.
* Brothers in Arms: Miles has an open comm link when he's talking to Galen at the end. So obvious, yet you're pleased for once something isn't as disastrous as possible.
* Kushiel's Avatar: Joscelyn is wonderful. He's as bad as Rand or a Mary Sue in the way he can beat up any number of really trained people, but it truly is balanced by his restrictive moral code that he actually sticks to, often at inconvenience, and when he *can't* fight he, with difficulty, does a right thing. And I'm so pleased that despite his code, he
* OTOH, all these passwords and oaths. It's bad enough in a world where Gods enforce them, and at least some are backed up by a potential afterlife threat, but people seem to put too much trust in them.
* I read Minor Arcana, some short stories by Dianna Wynne Jones (*cuddles numberland*). They almost all had the strange property that I didn't enjoy them as much as some other stories, but felt moved in *some* way, and the ones I'd read before had left a powerful image imprinted of just one phrase or scene that I hadn't particularly noticed at the time. Other instances:
Ian Banks, The Business. When Kate was a little girl selling sweets. When she lets Uncle Freddy pat her behind. The viking funeral. Her description of the prince.
The bruce willis film about the monkeys. The first scene outside. The radio advert. The bit in the airport.
* Brothers in Arms: Miles has an open comm link when he's talking to Galen at the end. So obvious, yet you're pleased for once something isn't as disastrous as possible.
* Kushiel's Avatar: Joscelyn is wonderful. He's as bad as Rand or a Mary Sue in the way he can beat up any number of really trained people, but it truly is balanced by his restrictive moral code that he actually sticks to, often at inconvenience, and when he *can't* fight he, with difficulty, does a right thing. And I'm so pleased that despite his code, he
* OTOH, all these passwords and oaths. It's bad enough in a world where Gods enforce them, and at least some are backed up by a potential afterlife threat, but people seem to put too much trust in them.
* I read Minor Arcana, some short stories by Dianna Wynne Jones (*cuddles numberland*). They almost all had the strange property that I didn't enjoy them as much as some other stories, but felt moved in *some* way, and the ones I'd read before had left a powerful image imprinted of just one phrase or scene that I hadn't particularly noticed at the time. Other instances:
Ian Banks, The Business. When Kate was a little girl selling sweets. When she lets Uncle Freddy pat her behind. The viking funeral. Her description of the prince.
The bruce willis film about the monkeys. The first scene outside. The radio advert. The bit in the airport.