I can't get into Card; his perspective fails to draw me in. I read Ender's Game, the first Alvin Maker book, and at least one of his short story collections, and I keep failing to get engaged. The ideas presented are compelling, but the plots usually don't do a lot for me, and some of the prose and particular scenes do me in. (Um, the end of the Alvin Maker book with the pastor and the glass window. Notice this is what sticks in my head out of all the rest of the book.)
Do you have any good recs along those lines? :)
I really, really wish I did. I could stop reading the stupid romances! Cryptonomicon almost sort of fits the bill, but it's a case of the romance happening as part of 1,000 pages of other wackiness. I've been trying to read romances this year (check the "2007 reading" tag on my LJ) and it's been an adventure in irritation. I guess my favorite romance plot is sort of a problematic type of story: the emphasis is on plot and character, not getting it on, so when that sort of thing gets shelved, it's probably going to get stuck in a non-romance genre.
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Date: 2007-04-19 08:09 pm (UTC)Do you have any good recs along those lines? :)
I really, really wish I did. I could stop reading the stupid romances! Cryptonomicon almost sort of fits the bill, but it's a case of the romance happening as part of 1,000 pages of other wackiness. I've been trying to read romances this year (check the "2007 reading" tag on my LJ) and it's been an adventure in irritation. I guess my favorite romance plot is sort of a problematic type of story: the emphasis is on plot and character, not getting it on, so when that sort of thing gets shelved, it's probably going to get stuck in a non-romance genre.