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Well, Well, Well...
Jul. 29th, 2010 10:48 amAt least I think I am. It's been, like, a month; I'm not sure what "well" feels like any more.
I've gone back to rereading the rest of Cherryh's atevi series; I finished Foreigner and am well into Invader. I think the problem I've had with the series is this. Cherryh's writing is always quite dense, and this series is more tightly bound than anything she's done before. To read one book and then wait six or twelve months for the next volume is to invite forgetting of details, which - given Cherryh's style - is to lose much of the richness of the work. (For example, while reading the third trilogy, I kept running into an in-joke involving, at opportune moments, saying "Salad". Rereading Invader, I have finally caught on to the joke.) It is at least useful that she's divided the series up into trilogies, each of which is (I think) reasonably if not completely self-contained. I'm enjoying the reread, in any case.
Not much else going on; I've been continuing my rewatch of Babylon 5 (I'm deep into Season 3, having just watched "Walkabout") and toying with the image of melding JMS's macro skills with Joss Whedon's micro skills. (They'd probably kill each other after about six episodes, but their talents are pretty much complementary; Joe isn't that good with dialogue - although he did write some killer monologues - and Joss just doesn't have what it takes to build a consistent and compelling story. Even the great Angelus arc was interrupted by mediocre episodes like "Go Fish", which contributed little or nothing to the development of the story.)
Ah, well. Time for orange juice and another flopdown.
I've gone back to rereading the rest of Cherryh's atevi series; I finished Foreigner and am well into Invader. I think the problem I've had with the series is this. Cherryh's writing is always quite dense, and this series is more tightly bound than anything she's done before. To read one book and then wait six or twelve months for the next volume is to invite forgetting of details, which - given Cherryh's style - is to lose much of the richness of the work. (For example, while reading the third trilogy, I kept running into an in-joke involving, at opportune moments, saying "Salad". Rereading Invader, I have finally caught on to the joke.) It is at least useful that she's divided the series up into trilogies, each of which is (I think) reasonably if not completely self-contained. I'm enjoying the reread, in any case.
Not much else going on; I've been continuing my rewatch of Babylon 5 (I'm deep into Season 3, having just watched "Walkabout") and toying with the image of melding JMS's macro skills with Joss Whedon's micro skills. (They'd probably kill each other after about six episodes, but their talents are pretty much complementary; Joe isn't that good with dialogue - although he did write some killer monologues - and Joss just doesn't have what it takes to build a consistent and compelling story. Even the great Angelus arc was interrupted by mediocre episodes like "Go Fish", which contributed little or nothing to the development of the story.)
Ah, well. Time for orange juice and another flopdown.
