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icepixieI've gotten bogged down in the third book of S.L. Viehl's Stardoc series. Mostly it's because the main character still loves this dude who is really a...well, "giant heel" hardly covers it, but it'll do, I suppose. She acknowledges that he's evil, but somehow can't stop being into him. I hear it can take a while to really root someone out of your heart, but sweetie, he sold you to reptilian interstellar slavers. I think at that point, it's okay for you to hate him without reservations.
It doesn't help that this is the same guy who had no problems telepathically taking over her mind for fairly shady reasons (not that there are good reasons to telepathically take over someone's mind, but some are better than others, you know?) and then, under the influence of alien goo, physically raped her. I cringed a lot at that one, but stuck with the series because I thought he was going to be left behind after that book. Not so much, sadly. And then there is this, and while there are hints that he's playing some kind of long game and this particular betrayal was not all as it seemed, I've pretty much reduced this book to a grudgeread. I want his ass airlocked ASAP.
I went to the library yesterday, though, so I have other books to read. I finally picked up a Borges collection, and I am now in possession of Android Karenina. I can only assume this will go better than the last time I attempted Tolstoy. (I was twelve, it was War and Peace, you can guess who won that round.) I also got a book on Venice from the same fellow who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Sadly, the books I requested are all at another branch, so I'll have to wait another few days for my collected Auden (I...thought I needed more of him in my life), Cold Comfort Farm (which I hear is fun) and The Bostonians. Yes, the last one is James, BLEH--The Turn of the Screw was okay, but I got about thirty pages into The Ambassadors before I realized that was going to be one of the texts from the orals list I covered via MasterPlots--but I hear there's canon femslash or at least extreme subtext, and for some reason I am very into femslash right now. I think it's Warehouse 13's fault. ;)
It doesn't help that this is the same guy who had no problems telepathically taking over her mind for fairly shady reasons (not that there are good reasons to telepathically take over someone's mind, but some are better than others, you know?) and then, under the influence of alien goo, physically raped her. I cringed a lot at that one, but stuck with the series because I thought he was going to be left behind after that book. Not so much, sadly. And then there is this, and while there are hints that he's playing some kind of long game and this particular betrayal was not all as it seemed, I've pretty much reduced this book to a grudgeread. I want his ass airlocked ASAP.
I went to the library yesterday, though, so I have other books to read. I finally picked up a Borges collection, and I am now in possession of Android Karenina. I can only assume this will go better than the last time I attempted Tolstoy. (I was twelve, it was War and Peace, you can guess who won that round.) I also got a book on Venice from the same fellow who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Sadly, the books I requested are all at another branch, so I'll have to wait another few days for my collected Auden (I...thought I needed more of him in my life), Cold Comfort Farm (which I hear is fun) and The Bostonians. Yes, the last one is James, BLEH--The Turn of the Screw was okay, but I got about thirty pages into The Ambassadors before I realized that was going to be one of the texts from the orals list I covered via MasterPlots--but I hear there's canon femslash or at least extreme subtext, and for some reason I am very into femslash right now. I think it's Warehouse 13's fault. ;)
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Date: 2010-09-20 06:01 pm (UTC)Aww, an unmerited-optimism grudgeread, no less. You are brave, indeed. ;P
Miles showing up with all his medals! Hee!
And Gregor just about falling out of his chair at the sight! Muahhaa! Yes, it's definitely picking up now that Illyan's plot is going full-force. Just had to get Miles out of his funk in the second hundred pages or so. Btw, lol!Alys!
my taste may not have been all it is today.
Hahaha, ah, sixteen...
But A Civil Campaign makes up for it all. *hearts*
Yes, you keep hinting at that... which is why I splurged and bought the omnibus - thought that one might require a re-read at some point. It does include "Winterfair Gifts," too, and that story would've been harder to come by at the library... And the omnibuses are $10 on Amazon! Muahaha!
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Date: 2010-09-20 10:17 pm (UTC)thought that one might require a re-read at some point
Yeeeesss...
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Date: 2010-09-21 12:01 am (UTC)