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Sep 13, 2010 23:11

Day 11 - A book you hated

Robert Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History. I hate hate hate it when journalists write bad history. Especially when they imply that all those backwards, belligerent, warmongering little third-world countries are perpetually at each other's throats on account of some ancient, irreconcilable feud; that their ( Read more... )

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hamsterwoman September 14 2010, 04:03:06 UTC
I was intrigued by S.M.Stirling's story in Warriors -- I mean, post-apocalyptic Soviet Union with a blend of Cossack legacy stuff (which I grew up on in cartoons, folktales, and songs) and Soviet-era vocabulary = awesome, clearly, and he managed to to screw it up in any practicularly glaring ways. And then I read more about the main novels in the universe, and you can believe the Dunedain Rangers are a huge attraction. So, I'm planning to check them out, maybe, eventually, and this is just added endorsement (even if you don't love them any longer, seems like you're still decently fond of them).

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tabacoychanel September 15 2010, 21:44:21 UTC
yesssss read them. i didn't even realize how fond of them i was until i started writing this haha

he's done a couple of dunk & egg style stand-alone short stories set in the same verse but with OCs (wait he's not writing fanfic so they can't be OCs lololol fail forever) and I think the first two were stronger than his slavic effort tbh.

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hamsterwoman September 16 2010, 06:10:35 UTC
The Slavic effort was a lot of fun (especially to me!) but, yeah, I didn't think it was particularly profound or striking worldbuilding or anything like that. As I might have previously mentioned somewhere, I'm a total sucker for the Sweet Polly Oliver trope, though, soooo :P (ETA: Also, the chemistry-savvy princess at the end was badass!)

I do mean to check out his stuff (once I burn through the current backlog and holds... and Catch-22...)

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electrumqueen September 14 2010, 05:05:07 UTC
your summary of the stirling book makes me think of steve boyett's ariel, which i totally keep meaning to read. *gets on that*

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