Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 47

[cahn]

We haven't had a new post since before December 25, so obligatory Yuletide link to this hilarious story of Frederick the Great babysitting his bratty little brother, with bonus Fritz/Fredersdorf!

Comments

Re: Micromegas - Voltaire

[luzula]

I have read Too Like the Lightning and half of the sequel, but I abandoned it because so much of the politics were tied up in sexual power games in a way that I didn't enjoy.

Re: Micromegas - Voltaire

[cahn]

Oh, that's too bad -- that was probably my least favorite part of Lightning, and I am not super excited that there's more of it in the sequel... I kind of want to know if there's a payoff at the end of the sequel, though! (Since I hear that the first two books were originally written as a single book.)

Re: Micromegas - Voltaire

[luzula]

Yeah, definitely more of that in the sequel. And I was sometimes genuinely unsure whether a scene was rape or not.

Re: Micromegas - Voltaire

[cahn]

Yeah, I've started the sequel and it's already...

I think that's part of the point, to be unsure? But I'm also not sure about that.

Re: Micromegas - Voltaire

[mildred_of_midgard]

It's unsureness all the way down, I see!