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I should really try to post these immediately after finishing the books. Oh well.
56) "Marco Polo" - John Lucarotti. Yet another Dr. Who book, surprising to me in it's detail and ambition, but poorly executed in written form. I can't even imagine how it must have played as actual eps. Must have gone on and on and freakin' on. They travel from mountains (the Himalayas, I think?) across the Gobi desert and eventually to Peking by way of caravan, hanging out at inns, playing chess, getting lost in sandstorms, etc, etc. I got the impression toward the end that whoever was adapting it for book form (Lucarotti himself?) was bored of writing it and things started to just sound a little cranked out and plopped down.
57) "Thud" - Terry Pratchett. I know what chocolate tastes like, but that doesn't ever stop me wanting to eat it. I liked it, there were any number of cute scenes and funny lines and such, but I've got to admit there was a sort of paint-by-numbers feel to this one. However, I do want Angua/Sally/Carrot fic, now. Is there any out there? Why is it that the only time I see femmeslash it's in Pratchett works?
56) "Marco Polo" - John Lucarotti. Yet another Dr. Who book, surprising to me in it's detail and ambition, but poorly executed in written form. I can't even imagine how it must have played as actual eps. Must have gone on and on and freakin' on. They travel from mountains (the Himalayas, I think?) across the Gobi desert and eventually to Peking by way of caravan, hanging out at inns, playing chess, getting lost in sandstorms, etc, etc. I got the impression toward the end that whoever was adapting it for book form (Lucarotti himself?) was bored of writing it and things started to just sound a little cranked out and plopped down.
57) "Thud" - Terry Pratchett. I know what chocolate tastes like, but that doesn't ever stop me wanting to eat it. I liked it, there were any number of cute scenes and funny lines and such, but I've got to admit there was a sort of paint-by-numbers feel to this one. However, I do want Angua/Sally/Carrot fic, now. Is there any out there? Why is it that the only time I see femmeslash it's in Pratchett works?
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I wondered that as well. Things seemed... simpler in that book. Although every now and then I'd get confused in time and place - I'd think we were one place and suddenly we were someplace else. I'd think Vimes was in his kid's room and then Carrot speaks and it becomes evident that he must have got downstairs.
I liked Wintersmith a lot. :) Got a little oddly hurried at the end, with the boy's part of the story, where he was just sort of going through these motions that needed to be done to make everything proper and mythical, but over all quite good.