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so. i finished the persian boy. i'm not sure if i enjoyed it or not. it certainly was fascinating, and a well-wrought read. but god, bagoas got on my nerves. the same way jane eyre got on my nerves, i think. just that ultimate servility drives me insane. i mean, i understand that the whole thing with both bagoas and jane eyre is that it's the love that drives them to forsake any other desire... that love is enough to sustain them without respect or equality or anything else, but yeah. that's not something that i admire.
i do admire the way renault was able to have so much repetition without it getting tiresome. alexander has a battle, alexander is wounded, bagoas is worried, alexander gets better. but by the last 5th of the book i was liek "isn't alexander DEAD yet?" not that i didn't like alexander - i thought he was the bloody star of the thing - but, and i say this with an understanding that it was written from the outset as a retrospective, i got sick of bagoas reflecting on events leading up to his death, *as* events leading up to his death. blah. the abrupt ending didn't help.
has anyone read the prequel to the persian boy? or any of mary renault's other books? are they any good? as i started reading i was of the mind that if it wasn't about The Gay, there probably wouldn't be enough else in it to keep me interested. but i don't know... like i said, it was entertaining writing, and alexander was great. teh gay was a bonus.
and, because i know a bunch of you on my flist love this book, i made a bunch of icons.
i wanted to caption them but wasn't sure what to put on them, so if you'd like me to caption any, just let me know and i'll do it for you. i know what i want the text to look like and everything, i just didn't know what to say, heh.
now i shall go off to read some fic. anyone have any recs?
i do admire the way renault was able to have so much repetition without it getting tiresome. alexander has a battle, alexander is wounded, bagoas is worried, alexander gets better. but by the last 5th of the book i was liek "isn't alexander DEAD yet?" not that i didn't like alexander - i thought he was the bloody star of the thing - but, and i say this with an understanding that it was written from the outset as a retrospective, i got sick of bagoas reflecting on events leading up to his death, *as* events leading up to his death. blah. the abrupt ending didn't help.
has anyone read the prequel to the persian boy? or any of mary renault's other books? are they any good? as i started reading i was of the mind that if it wasn't about The Gay, there probably wouldn't be enough else in it to keep me interested. but i don't know... like i said, it was entertaining writing, and alexander was great. teh gay was a bonus.
and, because i know a bunch of you on my flist love this book, i made a bunch of icons.
i wanted to caption them but wasn't sure what to put on them, so if you'd like me to caption any, just let me know and i'll do it for you. i know what i want the text to look like and everything, i just didn't know what to say, heh.
now i shall go off to read some fic. anyone have any recs?