uberreiniger | Read, read, read... (Reply)

Only a few pages have been turned since my post on my thoughts on Kushiel's Chosen and already the plot is thickening and getting better. I'd forgotten how cool a herione Phedre is when she's actually doing something. It's only when she is idle with free time on her hands and nothing to do save pour out inner monologue that she starts sounding like the most annoying Popular Girl from your high school class. You know, the one that wouldn't talk to you?

Authors are always getting told to write about what they know? Kind of makes you wonder how J.C. comes up with all the... things that happen in the Kushiel series. Actually, according to her it all just came about because she's a huge angelology and Rennaisance geek. The rest *gasp* I think she just made it up! It's nice to see an author who can confidently write about what they know, yet can do so without making themselves the protagonist. I am starting to love Orson Scott Card, but does every main character have to be a Mormon with subplots that involve his church? You all know I love Stephen King, but how many novelists can the state of Maine have? Given that all his novels take place in the same "world," so to speak, I think it would be interesting if he wrote a story in which all his writer protagonists went to a writer's conference together...

Maybe in order to avoid the cliche I shall have no choice but to embrace it. I will write a novel about a lazy security guard who plays roleplaing games.

Hmm... Make that a handsome security guard...