A Meeting at Corvallis
Sep. 6th, 2006 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixenI'm up to page 232. The little vixen is cooperating with my reading schedule.
Without getting spoilery (I'll do that when I review the book), here's what's amusing me or grabbing my attention:
There's a scene vaguely reminiscent of Eric Flint's 1632 involving Corvallis. Cheerleaders and knights...
Graffiti seen in one city - "Help, I've fallen into the RenFaire and can't get out!"
Actually, there's quite a bit of running commentary about people thinking other groups are weird and minor clashes between older and younger groups.
There's rather predictable plot event, I'm waiting to see how Stirling spins it out.
One thing I like about Stirling's work is that people who get overconfident and arrogant generally pay for it in blood - whether they're the good guys or the bag guys.
A lot of the people on the bad side are really bad (Alice Hong and William Walker come to mind...) but now and then Stirling throws in a moment that makes even people on the "bad" side seem human. Even if for only just a moment. This also works in reverse...
I also find it interesting that the major villain in both halves of the Nantucket books (since these three are about the Change that sent Nantucket waaaaaay back) have daughters whom they are grooming to take over for them.
DV
Without getting spoilery (I'll do that when I review the book), here's what's amusing me or grabbing my attention:
There's a scene vaguely reminiscent of Eric Flint's 1632 involving Corvallis. Cheerleaders and knights...
Graffiti seen in one city - "Help, I've fallen into the RenFaire and can't get out!"
Actually, there's quite a bit of running commentary about people thinking other groups are weird and minor clashes between older and younger groups.
There's rather predictable plot event, I'm waiting to see how Stirling spins it out.
One thing I like about Stirling's work is that people who get overconfident and arrogant generally pay for it in blood - whether they're the good guys or the bag guys.
A lot of the people on the bad side are really bad (Alice Hong and William Walker come to mind...) but now and then Stirling throws in a moment that makes even people on the "bad" side seem human. Even if for only just a moment. This also works in reverse...
I also find it interesting that the major villain in both halves of the Nantucket books (since these three are about the Change that sent Nantucket waaaaaay back) have daughters whom they are grooming to take over for them.
DV
