neglect
I've been neglecting you guys rather badly lately and I apologize! Blogger.com continues to be blocked at work, which makes commenting (and reading comments) on blogspot blogs impossible. Which is really half the fun, you know? But alas!
I've been debating for a while whether to link to my other blog - a LiveJournal that I've maintained for sometime. I think that some people have already found it, though, so why not? So there you go, a blog that I update more than once a month. I don't post about writing over there very much, though, since I don't think many of my readers/friends are interested.
The most recent thing I've read (besides a couple of non-fiction books on the Roman Empire, which I am slightly obsessed with) is Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes. In it, the author does something that has recently come to annoy me: throw me headlong into his kooky SF world without bothering to explain anything.
Maybe it's just getting older but I have less patience for puzzling out what the author is talking about anymore. It also seems a bit lazy to me to make the reader do ALL the work.
That being said, Lady of Mazes is a book where the effort is worth it. I think the author leaves us behind at first because the ideas in the book are so left-field that you really have to engage your entire right brain to catch up with him. Once you do, though, it's like "Ahhhhhhh!"
Anyways, like most Big Idea books this one gets a little silly and muddled towards the end. Still totally worth it, though, one of the best pure SF books I've read in a while.
I've been debating for a while whether to link to my other blog - a LiveJournal that I've maintained for sometime. I think that some people have already found it, though, so why not? So there you go, a blog that I update more than once a month. I don't post about writing over there very much, though, since I don't think many of my readers/friends are interested.
The most recent thing I've read (besides a couple of non-fiction books on the Roman Empire, which I am slightly obsessed with) is Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes. In it, the author does something that has recently come to annoy me: throw me headlong into his kooky SF world without bothering to explain anything.
Maybe it's just getting older but I have less patience for puzzling out what the author is talking about anymore. It also seems a bit lazy to me to make the reader do ALL the work.
That being said, Lady of Mazes is a book where the effort is worth it. I think the author leaves us behind at first because the ideas in the book are so left-field that you really have to engage your entire right brain to catch up with him. Once you do, though, it's like "Ahhhhhhh!"
Anyways, like most Big Idea books this one gets a little silly and muddled towards the end. Still totally worth it, though, one of the best pure SF books I've read in a while.
posted by braun at 4:14 PM
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