also: reading Good Omens, as tribute
my dear work mentor just sent me six recommendations for scifi-esque books with female protagonists.
this fucking book. fuck. I can see the pieces and I don’t know what they mean and it is infuriatingly artful. and I’m in love with every character and I’m going to die when they do but I can see how heartbreaking those deaths will inevitably be.
I feel really ripe for judgment when I put an OSC book on my Goodreads but like ugh. it’s one of my hypocrisies. sorry ugh
omfgjc The Just City looks like MY JAMS
anoteinpink I’ve defs heard good things about the witches books. maybe that’s where I’ll go as my last desperate shot at enjoying Pratchett as an author. maybe I just don’t dig Discworld? except Maurice. Maurice was SO GOOD.
mls-classics I’d heard the same about Small Gods, hence giving it a shot now. the pseudo-friend who recommended it to me said it shook up his beliefs a bit, and so far I don’t get that vibe at all, but I could just be oblivious. I’ll put Soul Music on the list too perhaps.
anoteinpink I’m reading Small Gods. which is funny! in the “I’ve said ha ha out loud twice now” sort of way…and sometimes because of cleverness…
I made the mistake of trying to start with the ACTUAL first book (Color of Magic) and was told by Pratchett fans that was a bad idea, so quit that right away…
obvs you now need to read authority and acceptance
putting holds on those was the first thing I did upon arriving at a computer
ISN’T IT GREAT!!
it was…utterly unique! I’ve never read anything like it. it was like reading a scientific account of a bad dream and holy shit was that an effective device.
anyone who’s read Annihilation, feel free to scream things at me, I finished it this morning in bed and I’ve been wandering in a bit of a daze since and I think the only cure is DISCUSSION