'Life of the Party'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
My other problem with Embassytown is not liking the POV character. I guess that's going around.
Yah. She's not extremely compelling. She does, in the end, do things, though, which I got to before my eyes flipped out (not the way yours did... at least I think. Hmm. Suspicious.).
I'm trying to think whether this is his first female narrator since Bellis?
For Blackout, please tell me she doesn't do the clone = adult version of person complete with memories .
I haven't started Feed yet, but I am a little bummed the guy in the BEA line made me choose. I wanted to take both that and Deadline!
I think Ben might read Feed before I get to it, though, since I'm entangled in the Martin books.
For Blackout, please tell me she doesn't do the
Spoilers! You have the last chapter to go on. Speculate as you will. All I'll say is that what she does is interesting and I dig it, even though I wasn't sure about it at first.
I haven't started Feed yet, but I am a little bummed the guy in the BEA line made me choose. I wanted to take both that and Deadline!
Well, you wouldn't have wanted Deadline without Feed ! That's not really a CHOICE. Come on, BEA guy.
Yes, I know - that's why I whitefonted it, silly.
I'm just hoping that she doesn't do that - it's one of my minor peeves.
I'm currently reading Connie Willis' Blackout and skimming this conversation is confusing. But I figured it out.
An excerpt from the audiobook of A Dance with Dragons is up on the Random House site. (There is an excerpt from the ebook too - and it's a different chapter.)
Awesome, I'm in the Acknowledgments for Deadline too, even though I still didn't do shit! At least I'll earn my spot for Blackout.
Toddson, did you read the excerpt from Blackout ? It may address your question.
Actually, that's what led me to the question.
Ok! I finished Embassytown and I still liked it, but I think your eyes will roll a bit at the ending Raq. I loved the feeling I got that Language was a character, kind of like Gossip is in Middlemarch - which could be, as you said, something only a writer could love.
The protagonist seems to be speaking to everyone from inside a sealed container though. Things that should resonate don't. Except when they happen to people not the protagonist.
So, still thinking on it. I am too soft when it comes to Mieville.
Then I started Feed - which was a gear shift from E-town, obviously, but whoah what a great ride this is going to be.