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Books! Aargh!
Mar. 6th, 2004 10:46 pmFirst it was Patrick O'Brien, now it's Diana Wynne Jones. Cursed authors with their seductive novels. I've read two Jones novels (Howl's Moving Castle and Hexwood) over the last two days and only managed to get one Kismet page penciled. I'm never going to meet my month's goals at this rate. This is why I decided to quit reading O'Brien for a while, and now I'm off down the same road with another author!
Given good books to read, I think I could happily read for 16 hours a day for quite some time before getting tired of it.
However, none of this is getting me any closer to being a comic book artist. Better lay off the Jones now too.
But it was worth it -- Howl's Moving Castle is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time. Hexwood is ... well, as far as I'm concerned it's a cautionary tale for not trying to develop too many plotlines in too short a space. It was not a bad book, and (like Howl's Moving Castle) the characters were a delight, but it really started bogging down towards the end in masses of exposition, weird coincidences, and several different pivotal scenes with truly mind-boggling numbers of characters involved in them. I think it would have been a better book if she hadn't tried to cram so many different characters and ideas into it. But it was worth reading just for Ann and Mordian, both of whom are wonderful characters.
Given good books to read, I think I could happily read for 16 hours a day for quite some time before getting tired of it.
However, none of this is getting me any closer to being a comic book artist. Better lay off the Jones now too.
But it was worth it -- Howl's Moving Castle is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time. Hexwood is ... well, as far as I'm concerned it's a cautionary tale for not trying to develop too many plotlines in too short a space. It was not a bad book, and (like Howl's Moving Castle) the characters were a delight, but it really started bogging down towards the end in masses of exposition, weird coincidences, and several different pivotal scenes with truly mind-boggling numbers of characters involved in them. I think it would have been a better book if she hadn't tried to cram so many different characters and ideas into it. But it was worth reading just for Ann and Mordian, both of whom are wonderful characters.