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Media Roll Call
Jan. 21st, 2012 07:52 pmBooks
5)Mermaids! edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois - An anthology about, you guessed it, mermaids. Generally good stories ranging from humor to tragic. Avram Davidson's opener was horribly overwrought, though, and Gene Wolfe's The Nebraskan and the Nereid was full of some nagging holes. I loved the weird sweetness in Theodore Sturgeon's A Touch of Strange, on the other hand. Don't see myself re-reading it again, however, so this one is probably on its way to the used book store for a new home.
6)The Trouble With Heroes edited by Denise Little - Another anthology but this time about those who support and act as second fiddles to famous heroes. Some really fun reinterpretations of old stories and ideas, heavy on the Greek mythology. Which strikes me as kinda cheating when you have an entire world to play with but it is what it is. A couple Arthurian stories, a Robin Hood send-up, a comic book sort of thing, even a Biblical piece and something on Cyrano. Nothing in particular stuck out as brilliant but that is only because, by and large, everything was quality.
7) Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James, illustrated by Warwick Goble - A reprint of a book from 1923. Yeah, I bought it mostly for the pretty, pretty pictures. Goble is up there with Rackham but below Nielsen when it comes to fairy tale art for me. It was a surprisingly straight-forward telling of various tales, though, and an easy enjoyable read.
5)Mermaids! edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois - An anthology about, you guessed it, mermaids. Generally good stories ranging from humor to tragic. Avram Davidson's opener was horribly overwrought, though, and Gene Wolfe's The Nebraskan and the Nereid was full of some nagging holes. I loved the weird sweetness in Theodore Sturgeon's A Touch of Strange, on the other hand. Don't see myself re-reading it again, however, so this one is probably on its way to the used book store for a new home.
6)The Trouble With Heroes edited by Denise Little - Another anthology but this time about those who support and act as second fiddles to famous heroes. Some really fun reinterpretations of old stories and ideas, heavy on the Greek mythology. Which strikes me as kinda cheating when you have an entire world to play with but it is what it is. A couple Arthurian stories, a Robin Hood send-up, a comic book sort of thing, even a Biblical piece and something on Cyrano. Nothing in particular stuck out as brilliant but that is only because, by and large, everything was quality.
7) Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James, illustrated by Warwick Goble - A reprint of a book from 1923. Yeah, I bought it mostly for the pretty, pretty pictures. Goble is up there with Rackham but below Nielsen when it comes to fairy tale art for me. It was a surprisingly straight-forward telling of various tales, though, and an easy enjoyable read.
