When you've finished it, tell us what you think about the ending!
PoG is my feavourite in the series actually... That, and Use Of Weapons.
Really really enjoyed the book and I liked the ending - it was very operatic, which I think suited the idea of the Empire. I also liked the feeling that Gurgeh may never play another game, that Azad had been the culmination of all he had been and was.
Not sure whether to continue with the Culture and start "Use of Weapons" or go for Alastair Reynold's "The Prefect" (which I have out of the library) or Kate Mosse's "Labryinth" which I've just bought from the charity shop for 50p
I'd go for a change with The Prefect. it's a good 'un.
btw, did the huge heav-handed slab of moralising in POG not stand out to you? I know a few people who moaned about it...
Just started 'Antigone' by Jean Anouilh.
Ha - one of the very first choices of essay title on my Access course asked whether that was an existentialist text. So I immediately went to get it out of the library - and it was IN FRENCH!
I dissed Descartes instead
Dissing Descartes is always good.
Descartes is a whipping boy.
It was always much more interesting to try and defend him, I found.
Ha - one of the very first choices of essay title on my Access course asked whether that was an existentialist text. So I immediately went to get it out of the library - and it was IN FRENCH!
I dissed Descartes instead
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams (of Watership Down fame).
I started it years and years ago when I was in my teens and misplaced the book about a third of the way through.
Its really well written (IMHO) and quite emotional and I am only on about page 50.
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams (of Watership Down fame).
I started it years and years ago when I was in my teens and misplaced the book about a third of the way through.
Its really well written (IMHO) and quite emotional and I am only on about page 50.
Beautifully written. The people who did the Watership Down animation also did Plague Dogs as an animation. Far, far bleaker than the book.
Ooooh!
We have the Watership Down film and I know it virtually word for word (much to the annoyance of anyone watching it with me ) but I didn't know about the Plague Dogs.
Will have to see if we can get a copy
I'm reading Kafka's The Trial