8/2/2000
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Changed
mind. Couldn’t get into it.
8/2/2000
Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
The characters is a whiny yuppie at the
beginning of the novel. She should have
shown more concern for her children during her time in the past. Yet one can see the changes that the past caused
in her. How her view on men shifted, how
she becomes less of a prude, more social. Her going after Frank the back
support has it seeds in her freeing Julia and going to the emperor after her
rape.
By the
end of the book, she has learned to take things far less seriously. You can see the progressions throughout the
book if you read it closely.
While
showing hoe she knew Latin weas while done, her quick acceptance of what
happened was not really very realistic.
Weak
book in some areas, good in others.
8/5/2000
Heart Beast by Tanith Lee
Somewhat
like a wrapped Wuthering Heights.
Laura is the object of lust for two men, the only thing is that Hyperion
loses her because of his goodness, he seems to lack passion, no matter what we
are told of his sex life.
Laura
herself seems so passive till at the very end of the book when she determined
to kill Daniel. She lets the men do what
they want to her. Even though she does
get please from Daniel, she does not go to him, but obeys his lust for her.
Her beauty
is her symbol. Each man tries to possess
her. But if anything possess her it is
the lamb.
Hyperion’s
only fault seems to be the fact the he does not excite Laura and puts her upon
a pedestal.
Does
either man truly know her? No.
We are sympathetic
to Daniel at the beginning of the novel, especially when the reader knows he
killed his father in order to protect his mother. But sympathy slowly vanishes for him because
his lack of remorse at the killing. He kills too many innocent people. We are glad when Laura kills him.
Otherworldly
quality as the rest of Lee’s books. Alternate
England. Shades of Gormengast as
the house and surrounding lands become deserted and with Jerome and the cats.
8/6/2000
Myth-Nomers and Im-pervections by Robert Asprin
Not
my favorite Myth book [Note – the series Myth Adventures]. I like the books much better when the whole
crew is there. My favorite character is Tananada and she didn’t make an appearance
in this one.
Pew is aptly
described by Marsha as like Manhattan only more so. Pew didn’t seem that bad compared to the
stories and rumors one reads about in the earlier books. But then anything was bound to be a
disappointment.
8/7/2000
Sweet Myth-tory of Life by Robert Asprin
Wish
Skeeve would stop treating woman as things.
He seems to want some sort a servant/wife.
The
premise of the novel doesn’t work and the plot becomes nothing more than a
treatise on love.
The
appearance of Kalvin is wasted and the whole book seems to be trying to reach
some conclusion. But you know what the
conclusion is for Skeeve would ever
marry Hemlock. So the book lacks a
plot. Skeeve’s questions com to no point
because at this point the reader knows Skeeve better than Skeeve knows
himself. Again no Tananada.
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