...I hate you!....you and dad are always mean!!....GO TO YOUR ROOM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
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...I hate you!....you and dad are always mean!!....GO TO YOUR ROOM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
Turns out I did get engrossed in it. I'm 2 thirds of the way through it.I'm about to get the train to my brother's so I'll be reading 11.22.63 on my kobo mini for a bit. If I get too engrossed I it I may well do a full reread, it is one of my favourites after all.
I am fine! Doing fine. Thank you.Yeah, how are you doing?
I haven't read any of Irving's newer books. Nothing past Trying To Save Piggy Sneed anyway.I am fine! Doing fine. Thank you.
Currently reading A Son of the Circus, by John Irving. Six chapters in and must admit it's a challenge so far. Not sure where it's going.
Circus released in '94! It is the follow-up to Owen Meany. Not sure when Piggy Sneed released.I haven't read any of Irving's newer books. Nothing past Trying To Save Piggy Sneed anyway.
You make me think I'm missing out! Which LeGuin novel would you suggest as a starting point?Started The Birthday World and other Stories by LeGuin. She is absolutely great. Finished the two first: Coming of Age in Karhide (a short story taking place in the same world as The Left Hand Of Darkness) and The Matter Of Seggri. Both Karhide and Seggri is worlds were the people havedifferent customs than we and she examinessome of the implications. Karhide is planet were the race inhabitating it has no obvious sex or gender. Instead they have developed a phase, called Kemmer, where their bodies change either to a male or female. Afterwards they return to their genderless state and they obviously look at earthlings as perverse because they are always in Kemmer, always sexually active and how could a society work if you could be consumed by lust at any time? From their perspective a good question. The novel deals with things that happen because they dont understand us and we dont understand them. The short story deals with the implications for a karhidian when going into his/her first Kemmer. She or He are really meaningless words to them since they only are genderspecific in a short phase of their lives, when they mate and in different Kemmerperiodsthey can be both Male and Female. The other, Seggri, is a world where there goes 16 women for every man. How would the society be affected by such a division of the sexes? The customs? LeGuin has her answer told in an interesting way. No swords, no Rayguns, no spaceship but very interesting. SF at its best. The people in her stories are different but always human despite big differences in physiology or customs.
Keep reading. That is one that was hard for me to get in to, but I ended up liking it a lot and reading it several times (sort of like The Stand ).I am fine! Doing fine. Thank you.
Currently reading A Son of the Circus, by John Irving. Six chapters in and must admit it's a challenge so far. Not sure where it's going.
I think Piggy was published in '96, and Circus in '94.I haven't read any of Irving's newer books. Nothing past Trying To Save Piggy Sneed anyway.
Circus released in '94! It is the follow-up to Owen Meany. Not sure when Piggy Sneed released.
That's what I've heard! A friend and I are doing a buddy read of it so that's keeping me going. We're both a little shocked by how quirky some of it is. Irving's prose is gorgeous as always.Keep reading. That is one that was hard for me to get in to, but I ended up liking it a lot and reading it several times (sort of like The Stand ).
Circus released in '94! It is the follow-up to Owen Meany. Not sure when Piggy Sneed released.
I think Piggy was published in '96, and Circus in '94.
So between '94 and '96 were my 'lost' years.......1994 is like yesterday to KRF.
I recently read Until I Find You and The Fourth Hand but I need to pick up my paperback of A Son of the Circus. I had to take a break from it for the reasons you alluded to. It is a fascinating subject but, like you said, I wasn't sure where the narrative emphasis was supposed to be. After I'm finished I will have read all of his novels except for Avenue of Mysteries, The Water Method Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage.I am fine! Doing fine. Thank you.
Currently reading A Son of the Circus, by John Irving. Six chapters in and must admit it's a challenge so far. Not sure where it's going.
I'm keeping an eye out at the secondhand shops for Avenue of Mysteries. Haven't read it yet, but I'd like to.I recently read Until I Find You and The Fourth Hand but I need to pick up my paperback of A Son of the Circus. I had to take a break from it for the reasons you alluded to. It is a fascinating subject but, like you said, I wasn't sure where the narrative emphasis was supposed to be. After I'm finished I will have read all of his novels except for Avenue of Mysteries, The Water Method Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage.
For her SF The Left Hand Of Darkness, The Dispossessed and The Word For World Is Forest. The last of these three is more of a novella. All are very good. To taste her fantasy best the best starting point is The Earthsea trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs Of Atuan and The Farthest Shore. They are more of YA really but good YA. Its her SF thats special to me.You make me think I'm missing out! Which LeGuin novel would you suggest as a starting point?