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Mar. 20th, 2018 07:35 pmWestmark trilogy by Lloyd Alexander
For my fannish book club, my choice of book. I think I was the one who enjoyed this most of the book club crew, although it did have its flaws. I do think it makes it rather easy for itself by having two monarchs who are actually sympathetic to the republican rebels! The main enemies are the aristocracy and a power-hungry minister. Also the book does not answer my questions about the compatibility of magic and democracy, because there is no magic. Any others who have read this trilogy and have thoughts about it?
Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell
Woooooow. This is for sure going up on my top ten of the year! After reading this book I understand world politics and economics sooooo much better. What it does is to look at energy and how it's controlled in order to understand power struggles. I aim to write up a summary of this book for future reference; will do that later. Also, I wrote fanmail (well, fan-email) to the author and he wrote a very nice reply within a day!
For my fannish book club, my choice of book. I think I was the one who enjoyed this most of the book club crew, although it did have its flaws. I do think it makes it rather easy for itself by having two monarchs who are actually sympathetic to the republican rebels! The main enemies are the aristocracy and a power-hungry minister. Also the book does not answer my questions about the compatibility of magic and democracy, because there is no magic. Any others who have read this trilogy and have thoughts about it?
Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell
Woooooow. This is for sure going up on my top ten of the year! After reading this book I understand world politics and economics sooooo much better. What it does is to look at energy and how it's controlled in order to understand power struggles. I aim to write up a summary of this book for future reference; will do that later. Also, I wrote fanmail (well, fan-email) to the author and he wrote a very nice reply within a day!
