44.) Mary Gentle, Ilario: The Lion's Eye
I love the worldbuilding, the various physicians, the hot eunuch and the not-dead, not-gay dad, and the premise of painters inventing realism makes me wish I loved the rest of the novel, but the wandering tenses, plethora of exclamation points, and abrupt transitions gave me problems. And Ilario is so desperately too stupid to live that I kept wanting to shake and shake and shake him/her.
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- it's a great life, if you don't weaken (
matociquala) wrote,
it's a great life, if you don't weaken
matociquala
- Mood:
sore
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you're going to reap just what you sow.
Lou Reed March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013 Third time's the charm, more's the fucking pity. I thought I was someone else. Someone good.
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Godspeed.
This is for you, Neil Armstrong. And this one is for Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me. A quarter of a million miles isn't really that far. It…
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Jerry Nelson, 1934-2012
The world is a less groovy place today. Floyd Pepper is dead. He was also Aloysius Snuffleupagus, Count von Count, Dr. Julius Strangepork,…
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you're going to reap just what you sow.
Lou Reed March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013 Third time's the charm, more's the fucking pity. I thought I was someone else. Someone good.
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Godspeed.
This is for you, Neil Armstrong. And this one is for Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me. A quarter of a million miles isn't really that far. It…
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Jerry Nelson, 1934-2012
The world is a less groovy place today. Floyd Pepper is dead. He was also Aloysius Snuffleupagus, Count von Count, Dr. Julius Strangepork,…
