Summer Reading

[cornellbox]

Recent reads include Robert Charles Wilson's Julian Comstock and Cory Doctorow's Makers. And, right now, I'm reading Guy Gavriel Kay's latest, Under Heaven (which, I also heard, was on someone's summer reading list on NPR last week).

Compared to the Hugo winning Spin, Wilson's Julian Comstock was somewhat disappointing, but then, so was Axis,

Comments

[shekkara]

I don't get Disney. We went once as a kid. It was enough. I remember being hot, walking a lot, and standing in line a lot, and paying for overpriced food that taxed the budget. Not really my idea of fun.

I liked the GG Kay book. I devoured it rather quickly, having had no Kay for several years now, and would like to go back over it more slowly and see if it holds up. Have you read Ysabel?

[thorhansen]

I enjoyed Makers for the most part, but had the feeling I had with post Neuromancer Gibson that I had read the same articles. I got some feel for how much Cory loves the mouse house which was a nice thing for me. It was an idea I didn't posses before reading.

[cornellbox]

I haven't read Ysabel. If I finish Under Heaven, I may take Lions of al-Rasan up north with me (I read a big chunk of it up there when I first read it), or maybe Tigana. Under Heaven may be enough for me, though.

I don't disagree on Makers; there's a sense of being briefed already. Or as Gibson says on his website these days (posted a couple months ago):

EXPOSITION IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE
posted 11:37 AM
Via my wonderful editor, Susan Allison, from a New York Magazine piece on David Simon:

"Fuck the exposition," he says gleefully, as we go back into the bar. "Just *be*. The exposition can come later." He describes a theory of television narrative. "If I can make you curious enough, there's this thing called Google. If you're curious about the New Orleans Indians, or 'second-line' musicians--you can look it up." The Internet, he suggests, can provide its own creative freedom, releasing writers from having to overexplain, allowing history to light the charaqcters from within