Three books
Apr. 27th, 2010 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI have reserved a bunch of Hugo nominees at the library and today the first two came in. In most cases I know pretty much nothing about them that isn't evident from the title and author.
"What ever happened to the caped crusader" by Neil Gaiman: The Wake, but for Batman. Not bad, but had no overarching plot nor any very interesting message I could fathom, and felt rather generically Gaimanish. I probably would have enjoyed what is basically a love letter to Batman more if I loved Batman rather than just liked the series and character a bit sometimes.
"Wake" by Robert J Sawyer: So, I knew NOTHING about this going in. In the first scene the main character, a disabled young woman who loves maths, updates her livejournal. This was so close to what I'd just been doing I shut the book and felt a little weirded out. But I am definitely intrigued :)
And also on the way home I popped into the second hand bookstore and got a copy of "More than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon, huzzah.
EDIT: Oh dear. Her username is Calculass, and her best friend's is BrownGirl4 aka "Girl who likes maths and her nonwhite/POC best friend"(*). Overall it feels like the author read an article about how teenage girls use livejournal and skimmed some entries but doesn't entirely get it.
(*)I realise there are people who have usernames like that, but for example looking at my friends list there's a few that are relatively informative like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leecetheartist or strangedave but the only one that sounds like the sorts of unambigously descriptive yet vague username you get in fiction is goth_grrl...and that's a fictional username from a parody of an IRC channel :)
"What ever happened to the caped crusader" by Neil Gaiman: The Wake, but for Batman. Not bad, but had no overarching plot nor any very interesting message I could fathom, and felt rather generically Gaimanish. I probably would have enjoyed what is basically a love letter to Batman more if I loved Batman rather than just liked the series and character a bit sometimes.
"Wake" by Robert J Sawyer: So, I knew NOTHING about this going in. In the first scene the main character, a disabled young woman who loves maths, updates her livejournal. This was so close to what I'd just been doing I shut the book and felt a little weirded out. But I am definitely intrigued :)
And also on the way home I popped into the second hand bookstore and got a copy of "More than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon, huzzah.
EDIT: Oh dear. Her username is Calculass, and her best friend's is BrownGirl4 aka "Girl who likes maths and her nonwhite/POC best friend"(*). Overall it feels like the author read an article about how teenage girls use livejournal and skimmed some entries but doesn't entirely get it.
(*)I realise there are people who have usernames like that, but for example looking at my friends list there's a few that are relatively informative like
leecetheartist or strangedave but the only one that sounds like the sorts of unambigously descriptive yet vague username you get in fiction is goth_grrl...and that's a fictional username from a parody of an IRC channel :)
