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graculusIn other news (since I'm sick of talking about work and nothing else here, and apologies to anyone who's equally bored with it), I finished A Wizard of Earthsea last week and am now almost halfway through The Time-Traveler's Wife. I'm very glad I didn't discover it was one of the blessed Richard and Judy bookclub books otherwise I would have passed it by and that would have been bad.
It's a clever idea, with a lot of interesting concepts in it - a man (Henry) who finds himself 'chrono-impaired', travelling back in time when under stress to important times in his own past life and also back to various times in the childhood of the woman (Claire) who will eventually become his wife. I'm not quite sure where the author is going with this one, but it begs the question as to whether Claire really ever has a choice about all of this, since it could be argued that Henry's involvement in her childhood, careful as he is the majority of the time not to tell her too much about her future, makes her into someone different from who she might otherwise have been and therefore into someone who fully expects that they will eventually get involved with one another as adults.
Next up is either The Tombs of Atuan (which scared the crap out of me when I was younger) or Anansi Boys, I haven't decided which yet. American Gods was excellent, though a lot of the fun for me was trying to guess from the descriptions which gods or hero figures Neil Gaiman was obliquely describing. ;)
Oh, and I still haven't seen either Harry Potter or Narnia or King Kong yet. Definitely going to see the first while I'm off work, might see the second, probably won't bother with the third...
It's a clever idea, with a lot of interesting concepts in it - a man (Henry) who finds himself 'chrono-impaired', travelling back in time when under stress to important times in his own past life and also back to various times in the childhood of the woman (Claire) who will eventually become his wife. I'm not quite sure where the author is going with this one, but it begs the question as to whether Claire really ever has a choice about all of this, since it could be argued that Henry's involvement in her childhood, careful as he is the majority of the time not to tell her too much about her future, makes her into someone different from who she might otherwise have been and therefore into someone who fully expects that they will eventually get involved with one another as adults.
Next up is either The Tombs of Atuan (which scared the crap out of me when I was younger) or Anansi Boys, I haven't decided which yet. American Gods was excellent, though a lot of the fun for me was trying to guess from the descriptions which gods or hero figures Neil Gaiman was obliquely describing. ;)
Oh, and I still haven't seen either Harry Potter or Narnia or King Kong yet. Definitely going to see the first while I'm off work, might see the second, probably won't bother with the third...
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Date: 2005-12-23 02:46 am (UTC)