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This isn't a book review, because I haven't finished the book. (And I am therefore disallowing comments to protect myself from spoilers.)
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cattitude has been reading me T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone, at a chapter or part-chapter at a time, before bed. We're having a fine old time.
There is in fact a plot, and characters. I particularly like Merlin, Wart, Archimedes, and the Questing Beast, and have been getting fonder of Sir Ector as the story proceeds. On the other hand, I keep interrupting the story to make rude remarks about some of the characters, notably King Pelenor. The entire thing is a festival of anachronism: it's got Uther Pendragon and Robin Hood, and has no definable tech level, and everyone in it talks like late Victorian or Edwardian English people, down to complaining about the Bolshevists. Quite funny.
I may attempt an actual review when we get to the end; this is mostly a placeholder because I haven't been talking about books much of late: I switch between focusing on Tiptree reading, which I discuss on the appropriate mailing list, and taking breaks therefrom with T. H. White or Ian Macdonald or rereading Amanda Cross.
cattitude has been reading me T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone, at a chapter or part-chapter at a time, before bed. We're having a fine old time.There is in fact a plot, and characters. I particularly like Merlin, Wart, Archimedes, and the Questing Beast, and have been getting fonder of Sir Ector as the story proceeds. On the other hand, I keep interrupting the story to make rude remarks about some of the characters, notably King Pelenor. The entire thing is a festival of anachronism: it's got Uther Pendragon and Robin Hood, and has no definable tech level, and everyone in it talks like late Victorian or Edwardian English people, down to complaining about the Bolshevists. Quite funny.
I may attempt an actual review when we get to the end; this is mostly a placeholder because I haven't been talking about books much of late: I switch between focusing on Tiptree reading, which I discuss on the appropriate mailing list, and taking breaks therefrom with T. H. White or Ian Macdonald or rereading Amanda Cross.
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