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white_hart) wrote2016-01-03 06:04 pm
white_hart) wrote2016-01-03 06:04 pm
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Reading Dorothy Dunnett's Pawn in Frankincense, I have two main thoughts (well, three if you count the loud AAAARGHHH which is clearly the only sensible reaction to a plot of such fiendish twistiness in which every turn just seems to make it all worse), viz:
1. I really, really want to go to Istanbul one day. The descriptions are just amazing. (It's a good book to read in winter, lots of sun and colours and enough mention of lovely fruit and delicious sherbets to make my mouth water.)
2. When I first started reading Dunnett, everyone told me I'd want to thump Lymond. I actually don't, mostly. Possibly this means I'm some kind of sociopath at heart. On the other hand, I have spent most of the book so far wanting to hit Jerrott Blyth repeatedly round the head with a clue-by-four.
(Please note that I'm currently 77% of the way through the book and despite the sheer agony of the fiendishly twisty plot have no desire to know how it ends up working itself out until I actually get to the end myself - so while I would very much like to discuss this book, and Lymond in general, I'm afraid I selfishly only want to discuss it as far as I've read so far.)
1. I really, really want to go to Istanbul one day. The descriptions are just amazing. (It's a good book to read in winter, lots of sun and colours and enough mention of lovely fruit and delicious sherbets to make my mouth water.)
2. When I first started reading Dunnett, everyone told me I'd want to thump Lymond. I actually don't, mostly. Possibly this means I'm some kind of sociopath at heart. On the other hand, I have spent most of the book so far wanting to hit Jerrott Blyth repeatedly round the head with a clue-by-four.
(Please note that I'm currently 77% of the way through the book and despite the sheer agony of the fiendishly twisty plot have no desire to know how it ends up working itself out until I actually get to the end myself - so while I would very much like to discuss this book, and Lymond in general, I'm afraid I selfishly only want to discuss it as far as I've read so far.)