by Kelly Link
I wish she would just write a novel, already. All the writers I really like seem to really like her, but I'm just never going to get excited about a short-story collection in the same way as a novel. ]]>
Ah, of course, you're Nick Alexander. The problem is you just show up as "picturenicholas", so I wasn't sure if you were Nick Peraino, Nick Alpers, etc. I was unable to picture which Nicholas. :)
You are- getting married? Got married? In any case, congrats, you & Abony make a gorgeous couple. ]]>
I'm not sure we can predict a particular future from the end of The Road. I felt like the book was presenting a contrast between two responses to disaster: the man's (fearful, defensive) and the boy's (open, trusting). Almost like diverging strategies in game theory; a prisoner's dilemma. For almost all of the book, it seems the man's approach is correct, and that's why he & the boy have survived. But the ending flips it on its head. It suggests that at least part of the problem was not that people aren't worthy of trust, but that the man wasn't capable of it, and thus had no place in a society based on trust. ]]>
bookshelves: books-on-leadership, to-read
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by Vernor Vinge
Sounds interesting. I randomly picked up Lost in Spacetime, which is a sequel to this, though set many years into the future, and enjoyed it. I don't remember it having the same race & gender dynamics going on as this one. I'll have to check this out as well. ]]>
by Catherine Jinks
I think an appropriate reward for the author would be to send her a video of John Ashcroft singing "Let The Mighty Eagle Soar."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R...
Let her soar, with healing in her wings. ]]>
bookshelves: to-read
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bookshelves: to-read
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Amaha
read and liked
Howard's
review of Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls:
"It's a a great set-up - a secret, wolf-pack underworld with a nifty, areal den that takes in wayward youth. (The author clearly loves the culture of wolves, as evidenced by her later novels which I have not read). Add to this the protagonist, a you...more "
"It's a a great set-up - a secret, wolf-pack underworld with a nifty, areal den that takes in wayward youth. (The author clearly loves the culture of wolves, as evidenced by her later novels which I have not read). Add to this the protagonist, a you...more "