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Have you ever finished a book and just...like, it's like friggin' afterglow? You're sort of floating and everything else is soft around the edges and you're all good? THAT's how Kirith Kirin left me. The last thing I read that had me remotely in the same league was Sea of Silver Light, the last book in Tad Williams' Otherland series, and even then things weren't right because Williams was too damn good; I knew all the people I'd journeyed with weren't going to leave with a "Happily Ever After". Grimsley gave me an out with Kirith Kirin and I, for one, intend to run with it and smile and not look back. Whee! So what if Jessex was a mite Sue-ish? The prose was *beautiful*, the magic was intriguing, and the book could have gone on for 500 more pages without me complaining (I actually read all the bloody *appendices*, fer Chrissake!). What makes me sad is that the book is currently out-of-print. I'm sorely tempted to "lose" the copy I got from the library, but I don't think I could live through the guilt of depriving other patrons what I've experienced. Damn my morals. The promising part is that I picked up another Grimsley book that's sort of set in the same world of Kirith Kirin so *squee*.
Okay, I'm controlled. I'm cool.
One more minute - I wish I was able to selectively delete memory so I could re-live reading this book fresh. Yeah, I liked it that much. I want to write Grimsley a fangirly letter thanking him for putting his work to paper. I think I will, once I'm able to collect my thoughts on the book so I'm not typing out "squeeeeeee!" Totally squee.
Really and truly cool now.
One more week of clinicals. Huzzah! There are less than two weeks of school left. Startling.
Just curious: what books have y'all read that have left you strongly moved in either a negative or positive way? and why (because the why's important on occasion)?
Have you ever finished a book and just...like, it's like friggin' afterglow? You're sort of floating and everything else is soft around the edges and you're all good? THAT's how Kirith Kirin left me. The last thing I read that had me remotely in the same league was Sea of Silver Light, the last book in Tad Williams' Otherland series, and even then things weren't right because Williams was too damn good; I knew all the people I'd journeyed with weren't going to leave with a "Happily Ever After". Grimsley gave me an out with Kirith Kirin and I, for one, intend to run with it and smile and not look back. Whee! So what if Jessex was a mite Sue-ish? The prose was *beautiful*, the magic was intriguing, and the book could have gone on for 500 more pages without me complaining (I actually read all the bloody *appendices*, fer Chrissake!). What makes me sad is that the book is currently out-of-print. I'm sorely tempted to "lose" the copy I got from the library, but I don't think I could live through the guilt of depriving other patrons what I've experienced. Damn my morals. The promising part is that I picked up another Grimsley book that's sort of set in the same world of Kirith Kirin so *squee*.
Okay, I'm controlled. I'm cool.
One more minute - I wish I was able to selectively delete memory so I could re-live reading this book fresh. Yeah, I liked it that much. I want to write Grimsley a fangirly letter thanking him for putting his work to paper. I think I will, once I'm able to collect my thoughts on the book so I'm not typing out "squeeeeeee!" Totally squee.
Really and truly cool now.
One more week of clinicals. Huzzah! There are less than two weeks of school left. Startling.
Just curious: what books have y'all read that have left you strongly moved in either a negative or positive way? and why (because the why's important on occasion)?
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Date: 2006-08-09 10:02 am (UTC)In Between: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore- Funny as hell. Interesting take on something depressing. Not the best ending.
Negative: American Gods by Neil Gaiman- He kept veering away from the main storyline. It's all right to do every now and then, but constantly. I skipped like 50 pages and wasn't the least bit confused. Then I stopped reading.
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Date: 2006-08-10 03:44 am (UTC)Re: A Dirty Job - yeah, I read that fairly recently. Lamb's a weird one. I too thought it was funny and also had my quibbles with the ending. More that I knew the daughter's role from the beginning and couldn't believe the dude would be so slow on the uptake.
Re: AG - I didn't see him as veering away so much and weaving threads that came together. As Shadow's journey was the main storyline IMO and he kept pretty close to following him.