gods, I thought Bullet was horrible. I've never been so glad not to have spent good money on a book I'd read. yay Libraries. if I didn't have Patricia Briggs and Carrie Vaughn to keep me enthused about female protagonist urban fantasy I think might swear off the genre altogether.
BTW if you haven't gotten to Jim Butcher's latest Dresden Files yet . . . it's a real game changer.
Oh, I didn't pay for this copy, got it from the library as well. :) I just can't give up on the series, something's wrong in my brain. :) I gave up on Butcher after I got bored with the story lines. I might check and see if the library has all the books...
I also read The City and the City this month. Because of what it had to say about visitors and children, I read the whole phenomenon very much as a strong cultural thing. It really made me think about those places in the city where there are intersecting regions of really rich folk and poorer folk... those areas will forever after be considered "crosshatched" in my brain.
I didn't really find the phenomenon that much stranger than how children don't really register adults as people, socialites don't really register the caterers at a party, etc. All of us to some extent are noticing sub-worlds that we're part of.
Good points, but there did seem to be a minor layer of magic going on... until things collided. But the way Breach just appeared didn't seem physically possible. I'm really not sure. I'll always notice people with cool boots, then will check them for piercings and tattoos. :) I also remember practicing unseeing when I was out at certain clubs. NYC seems like a place that would be very crosshatched.
My book club did "The City and the City" a couple months ago, and decided that, while the situation in the book was overly complicated, it would take less than an entire generation for people to automatically unsee the other city - there was a long discussion about how people "unsee" things all the time, eg homeless people.
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BTW if you haven't gotten to Jim Butcher's latest Dresden Files yet . . . it's a real game changer.
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I gave up on Butcher after I got bored with the story lines. I might check and see if the library has all the books...
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I didn't really find the phenomenon that much stranger than how children don't really register adults as people, socialites don't really register the caterers at a party, etc. All of us to some extent are noticing sub-worlds that we're part of.
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I'll always notice people with cool boots, then will check them for piercings and tattoos. :) I also remember practicing unseeing when I was out at certain clubs. NYC seems like a place that would be very crosshatched.
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Yeah, that's the only part that gives me pause about my analysis. I'm sure it was meant to be ambiguous, just to frustrate us. :)
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