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Media Roll Call
Mar. 29th, 2013 08:10 pm9) Highly Charged! by Joanne Rock - It's amazing the number of slightly-cheesy modern romance novels I'm getting through this year. This one was kinda cute and I like the literary side plot because I'm a sucker for books in general and the thought of a writer of erotica and feminist theory left a legacy to a young professor to explore etc. And it was mildly hot. But ultimately it was also forgettable. Though you have to lulz at combining a military bomb-squad guy on enforced leave meeting up with said professor.
10) The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason - I have some mixed feelings on this one and that might be because it took me a couple chapters before I hit on the best way to tackle it. Namely, you read a chapter, set it down, process, then pick it up again. Simply put, it's a series of reputedly lost vignettes from the infamous epic, the Odyssey. One of the more impressive things is how the author manages to seem like multiple writers, aping different styles and POVs for different chapters. Some of the chapters, though, were horribly overwrought. Others... were kind of perfect. Last Islands, for instance, is a perfect way to end the book; Troy turned into something akin to a RenFaire. The Long Way Back is a fantastic look at an alternate Calypso concept. Stone Garden is a heartbreaker, likewise No Man's Wife. Death And The King, pretty and chilling, almost LeFanu horror. A Night in the Woods, ditto but with a touch more Angela Carter, perhaps. Fugitive is full of timey-wimey fascination.
10) The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason - I have some mixed feelings on this one and that might be because it took me a couple chapters before I hit on the best way to tackle it. Namely, you read a chapter, set it down, process, then pick it up again. Simply put, it's a series of reputedly lost vignettes from the infamous epic, the Odyssey. One of the more impressive things is how the author manages to seem like multiple writers, aping different styles and POVs for different chapters. Some of the chapters, though, were horribly overwrought. Others... were kind of perfect. Last Islands, for instance, is a perfect way to end the book; Troy turned into something akin to a RenFaire. The Long Way Back is a fantastic look at an alternate Calypso concept. Stone Garden is a heartbreaker, likewise No Man's Wife. Death And The King, pretty and chilling, almost LeFanu horror. A Night in the Woods, ditto but with a touch more Angela Carter, perhaps. Fugitive is full of timey-wimey fascination.
