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[flemmings]

Witches Abroad
--couldn't get into Wee Free Men, didn't finish Fifth Elephant reread; sadly, the Pratchett engine ceases to chug as energetically as it did.

Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House

Aristotle and Poetic Justice
Poison in Athens
--I take it back about the narrator-hero being just an ordinary nice young Athenian man. He's thick as two short planks and a moral coward. Which makes him human, yes, but also raises the question of why Aristotle hangs about this rather shabby and self-preoccupied specimen. The view of Athens is serious yuck. Excellent corrective to The Last of the Wine.

This is what happens when you work a lot and play with hanzi a lot and try to read Stargate. Well, and write about seven pages of a new story. With poems. Some of which rhyme. Verse eats time.

Comments

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

There's the new Pratchett YA, Nation - is it out yet? I haven't been able to get my hands on it, but it's getting raves from all the professional journals...

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I think it's out but it's not Discworld, right? I read for Vimes and Vetinari, not literary quality.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. No, not Discworld.

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

Witches Abroad

Then... no mjj thoughts on "foreign parts"?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

They're in the story with the poems.

Though I do like pterry's take on New Orleans as opposed to Orlando. 'In Orlando your fun is made for you.'