Reading update
Aug. 13th, 2004 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaI finally finished Blue at the Mizzen, the 20th book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Waaaah! When I started, I was awed by how much I had to read... now I wish I had as much again!
So what to read next? I pondered. I read The Golden Compass some years ago when it first came out. Bought the next book, but didn't read it, because I'd heard it stopped rather than ended, and I wanted to wait for the third. Now I've got all three, so I'm rereading the first one again. Fascinating and disturbing - I'm enjoying this thoroughly.
But I miss Jack and Stephen.
So what to read next? I pondered. I read The Golden Compass some years ago when it first came out. Bought the next book, but didn't read it, because I'd heard it stopped rather than ended, and I wanted to wait for the third. Now I've got all three, so I'm rereading the first one again. Fascinating and disturbing - I'm enjoying this thoroughly.
But I miss Jack and Stephen.
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Re: Update
Date: 2004-08-19 08:11 pm (UTC)Hey, I thought *I* was the one with the short attention span! [veg] The books may seem to start slow, but they become richly rewarding - they remind me, oddly enough, of Trollope, the way that minor characters pop up again here and there and it's like meeting old friends. Also the convoluted sentences, and the English class conflicts.
The third book in the Dark Materials trilogy has taken an interesting turn; it seems to be following a Gnostic worldview, and I'm curious to see how closely it will turn out to resemble that pattern.
My big brother just sent us a housewarming gift... a stuffed Cthulhu, to keep our house free of pesky minor deities, he wrote!