Date: 22 Jan 2024 01:27 am (UTC)
hamsterwoman: (favorite book that I hate)
From: [personal profile] hamsterwoman
[personal profile] hamsterwoman won't mind me mentioning that!

Indeed not :D

while I am not at all at [personal profile] hamsterwoman's level of (what is it? frustration? love to hate? affectionate and deeply invested loathing? lol), these have proved to be fine but only sometimes for me - the second one, where it was more contained, really worked for me. This one didn't really.

"Frustration" is probably the most correct, but those are all in the right ballpark, lol, depending on the book, I guess XD I do think Close and Common Orbit is the best book, being the most book-shaped, but I'm actually very fond of Record of a Spaceborn Few -- I think it is my favorite of the four, though objectively I don't think it's as good as the second one. It's not that I love it -- I don't love any of them, even though I think if Chambers focused on things that cater to my interests other elements in her writing, I could love a book she wrote, but I just found it neat what 'Record' was doing -- this mosaic storytelling dealing with things you don't often see in sci-fi, like parenting or eldercare or diaspora culture shock (or burial, though that was less interesting to me personally).

And I should get back to the Raksura books at some point... I liked the first book, and some of the things I didn't like about it apparently get addressed in later books, but somehow I never continued...
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