ongoing: probably still about Jane Eyre, Jo March, and Anne Shirley vs Lizzie Bennet

[ironymaiden]

noting this so that i don't lose it.

finished Wise Man's Fear tonight. it is long and rambly and never gets to the point if there is a point, but i enjoyed it a great deal. why this book was delightful and the similarly rambly Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell was enragingly tiresome is something that i'm trying to tease apart.

my brain has shaken off that Clarke book for the most part. what i remember is a tease of promise and then a whole lot of dull nothing. arguably the Rothfuss books are the same. yet for some reason this is my kind of tease.

today's theory:

our hero is having an effect on the environment rather than being manipulated by the environment.

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I saw Clarke doing a reading of "one of the footnotes I didn't finish in time to get it into the book", (JS&MN) which was hilarious and delightful.

It was like seeing an awesome trailer for a terrible movie where they didn't include the appealing bits that got you into the theater.

I felt so, so misled. . . .