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avramHey, look! It’s About Girls has updated! A whole big batch of webstrip! Damn!
I’ve just finished Max Barry’s Jennifer Government, which, while clever and bitingly satirical, isn’t nearly as clever or biting as it thinks. It’s got about as much clever as a good Bruce Sterling short story, but spread out over a whole novel.
Before that, John C Wright’s Mists of Everness, second half of the story that started in The Last Guardian of Everness. (No, Mists isn’t actually out yet.) Like Wright’s Golden Age trilogy (written later, but published earlier), the Everness books are outstanding, full of wit and invention and glory. And like the trilogy, this story contains unfortunate bits of Objectivist wingnuttery toward the end. The wingnuttery isn’t as important to the plot in Everness, but Wright also gets sloppy when he lets his politics insert itself into the story. Still, well worth reading. (Odd note: Since writing these, Wright has had a religious experience and become a Christian. What this means for his further books, I don’t know.)
Next: Paradise Lost, I think.
Slim pickings at the comics shop this week. I got the trade of Teenagers from Mars, a comic I’ve been meaning to look at for a while.
I’ve just finished Max Barry’s Jennifer Government, which, while clever and bitingly satirical, isn’t nearly as clever or biting as it thinks. It’s got about as much clever as a good Bruce Sterling short story, but spread out over a whole novel.
Before that, John C Wright’s Mists of Everness, second half of the story that started in The Last Guardian of Everness. (No, Mists isn’t actually out yet.) Like Wright’s Golden Age trilogy (written later, but published earlier), the Everness books are outstanding, full of wit and invention and glory. And like the trilogy, this story contains unfortunate bits of Objectivist wingnuttery toward the end. The wingnuttery isn’t as important to the plot in Everness, but Wright also gets sloppy when he lets his politics insert itself into the story. Still, well worth reading. (Odd note: Since writing these, Wright has had a religious experience and become a Christian. What this means for his further books, I don’t know.)
Next: Paradise Lost, I think.
Slim pickings at the comics shop this week. I got the trade of Teenagers from Mars, a comic I’ve been meaning to look at for a while.
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Date: 2005-03-03 05:19 am (UTC)Bwahahahaha!
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Date: 2005-03-03 08:04 am (UTC)Jennifer Government
Date: 2005-03-11 10:48 pm (UTC)