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(Quote) He meets with Ganner for a friendly drink, forms a support group for musicians out of time that presumably meets regularly. His music continues to be highly regarded and he performs concerts. He's even invited on a second tour, for which he …
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On Good Reads it’s labelled as ‘Vita Nostra #1’ so I was tipped off. Hopefully it stands alone?
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BTW, I'm finding Vita more intriguing now. Initially I kept trying to compare it to Harry Potter because of how it's reviewed, but I've begun to realize it's more Kafka/Hesse. I'm 75% done. There's still a lot about it that doesn't add up, but mayb…
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I have no strong preference. I’ll be finished Vita by the end of the month, so I’ll be better able to discuss it by the original schedule. But Stangers will make a nice December book, so I don’t mind that option either. We could keep Vita in Sept…
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@BarnerCobblewood i think you should read A Stranger in Olondria with us.
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What you could do with this is rotate GMs, so let’s say you have a group of 4 people, each runs a different scenario for 3 players. And each player carries their basic character from one to another. The name changes, and the occupation. But the gene…
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This story felt like full circle to me from a world- building point of view, because it’s a rebirth. The next progression in time would have been similar to Ewing’s timeline.
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Maybe, but I normally have much more tolerance for setup than @NeilNjae does, so I think in this case it’s more a function of my state of mind.
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Phrasing it as Predacity is easier to understand. Ewing by Goose, Moriori by Maori In the Frobisher story, they mostly prey in each other. It’s more like an ecosystem. Del Rey, the plant preys on society. Smoke is the hunter and several character…
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> @NeilNjae said: > (Quote) > And indeed, why would anyone make a film of Cavendish's experience, outside of the context of filming The Cloud Atlas novel? To capitalize on the success of One Flew Over tge Cuckoo’a Nest?
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I got that they included the same people at both the entrance and exit of the one island, but not they the same people appeared multiple islands.
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Ewing is taken advantage of on a personal level, but is socially quite successful. Frobisher is, if anything, is socially disenfranchised and must rely on relationships with others, but seems more that willing to play the game. Del Rey lives in a ti…
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On the first read through I found all the stories absorbing. This time, however, this one was one of the least interesting to me, though I found the second half much more absorbing than the first, for this and other stories.
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> @NeilNjae said: > the story is a person alone, while RPGs typically have teams of protagonists. Who would the other PCs be, apart from Rey? This comes up a lot as is a fair point. How important is it to the question of whether a story ca…
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Not to kill the joy, but I’m not feeling the same.
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Yes, that seems like a plausible interpretation.
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I’m not sure I’d call a fictional character speculation on a story ‘a spoiler’. He could have been wrong, for one thing. And it’s not like you learned the facts of the story before the author revealed them.
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I liked this one on both readings. A classic thriller, could easily have been its own movie. Bill Smoke - great name!
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I’m curious. Can all the stories be mapped to this one?
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I enjoyed this one the most on this read. It’s a bit like an old British sitcom in may ways. Of course the character doesn’t grow - he’s an old man who thinks he always in the right. But it was entertaining, and often quite funny. I liked the little…
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I quite liked this one. I found all the characters convincing. I didn’t like them on a personal level but I was interested to hear what happened to them. I think life is dull of such struggles. I’m having one of my own within my family. I less sure …
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When I read the book the first time, I really liked it. It sucked me right in. But I was travelling at the time and staying in a hand-made wood shack with a grass roof, and the milieu of the story matched my surrounds. This time around, I found it h…
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I liked the structure and think it was deftly handled, with basically a nod to the previous story. The first story ends mid-sentence, and Frobisher acknowledges this. As I mentioned elsewhere, are we supposed to read into this that the characters ar…
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I think I have heard the music! I think I can hear it in the music of Hovhaness, Macewen, Hanson, Hadley, Sainton, and other early 20th C. composers, at least. My guess is that the very different voices was about Mitchell flexing his writerly mu…
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I’m used to books taking 90 pages or more to set up. I mean, Cloud Atlas takes even longer. So not bothered by that. Some very fine books have slow pacing. But some of this set- up seems to be belaboured or repeated, and that does bother me a little…
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I’m finished as well.
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I have a working theory atm that this And Ante character is actually Jacj, living under cover after having deserted. And this transcribing of Sando’s music into progressive rock is a way of sending a message, of drawing Sandro down Temmil.
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I’ll be done sometime over the weekend.
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I’m not likely to be done by the end of the month, but I’ve read it before and am moving through at a pretty good clip.
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Although not explicitly said, my thought was that the ‘pauses’ in the composition represented people lost in war to Alynna, emphasized by the red notation, and that’s what disturbed her. I wonder if we’ll see much of her. My impression was that t…