The wonderful Vandemeers put together a delightful bouquet of steampunk stories. I was almost, but not all the way through it (five more stories to go) when my volume was the victim of freak laundry accident. (Read: I managed to toss the book into the washer with a load of clothes and put it through a complete wash cycle.) Of the stories I did manage to read, they were all good, and convinced me that I’m not an enormous fan of steampunk. But like most subgenres, the good stuff is very good and well worth seeking out.
September 2008
Monthly Archive
Tue 23 Sep 2008
Tue 23 Sep 2008
A mystery that uses a yarn shop with its denizens as its primary setting. Brainless entertainment with one highly implausible leap at the end. This is not the book I was looking for.
Sun 14 Sep 2008
Yes, I’m just now getting around to finishing the Potter books. They’ve generally been fun, but this one was overly rambling. Long books are just fine, but you need to use the length to accomplish something. This is the least satisfactory of the Potter books for me so far, but I still have to read the last one
Sun 14 Sep 2008
There’s enough action and enough characters in this graphic novel that it can take careful reading to follow what’s going on. And it turns out to be worth the time. But the real star here is the use of color. It’s worth it to track down a copy to read through the first ten or so pages, but plan on wanting to read the whole thing if you do.
Sun 14 Sep 2008
Eh. I was really hoping for a more visually interesting film.
Thu 11 Sep 2008
Nice twisty shifted timeline unrolling plot. That was well done, but any sympathy I had for the characters was quickly dissipated. There are some powerful scenes here and some gorgeous imagery, but by the end it had all slipped away again. I so much wanted to like these characters but they fought me every step of the way.
