Recent reading
Sep. 26th, 2020 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaWriting up two books that I read (or didn't read) for book club. I feel like I am turning into the grumpy person who just complains and nitpicks...
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (2015)
This is sort of like X-Men, in that there are people who are experimented upon and then they get superpowers. I finished it, but I wasn't that into it. I kept getting thrown out by issues related to the worldbuilding. The main example was Phoenix's wings: she has a thirty-foot wingspan and can't ride in an airplane because they won't fit. But she can ride in a car just fine, and when she has a burka on, the wings fit underneath so well that everyone just thinks she is a hunchback? This makes no sense to me. Maybe the wings magically change size or something, but no reference is made to that, and it just seems...careless.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (2019)
I dropped out of this early--I could not stand Gideon's character voice. Or rather, it makes no sense to me (worldbuilding-wise) combined with the setting.
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (2015)
This is sort of like X-Men, in that there are people who are experimented upon and then they get superpowers. I finished it, but I wasn't that into it. I kept getting thrown out by issues related to the worldbuilding. The main example was Phoenix's wings: she has a thirty-foot wingspan and can't ride in an airplane because they won't fit. But she can ride in a car just fine, and when she has a burka on, the wings fit underneath so well that everyone just thinks she is a hunchback? This makes no sense to me. Maybe the wings magically change size or something, but no reference is made to that, and it just seems...careless.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (2019)
I dropped out of this early--I could not stand Gideon's character voice. Or rather, it makes no sense to me (worldbuilding-wise) combined with the setting.
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Date: 2020-09-26 08:43 pm (UTC)(I was unsurprised to discover the author was in Homestuck fandom, which I’ve found similarly impenetrable)
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Date: 2020-09-26 09:28 pm (UTC)