Cromwell follow-up
Nov. 29th, 2005 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo, it turns out that if you want to comment-whore, Cromwell is almost as effective as sex or politics. Who knew?
Anyway, it's pretty clear that, although knowledge of Cromwell is second nature to some, it's a nigh-unheard-of topic to others. So it sounds like the characterization is legit, although I still feel mildly surprised about her lack of knowledge.
For those with the patience for it, there are some damned interesting comments in the thread from yesterday.
I deliberately didn't mention the book itself, as I know some folks have read the author, and I wanted basically neutral opinions. That said, the book is The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross, and it's damned fun (which is why that one scene was so frustrating). It's the second book in The Merchant Princes series, so you'd be best off reading The Family Trade first. Once you get past all the blurbs insisting you compare Stross to Zelazny (as I noted yesterday in another context, would you want to compare penis size to John Holmes?), the books are perfectly fun fantasy novels with some nice examinations of and twists on traditional genre motifs (although they seem to get as much hate as love on Amazon, especially by folks who seem to have expected something more than fluff -- the tendency of everyone from editors to critics to compare the series to Amber certainly doesn't help).
Anyway, it's pretty clear that, although knowledge of Cromwell is second nature to some, it's a nigh-unheard-of topic to others. So it sounds like the characterization is legit, although I still feel mildly surprised about her lack of knowledge.
For those with the patience for it, there are some damned interesting comments in the thread from yesterday.
I deliberately didn't mention the book itself, as I know some folks have read the author, and I wanted basically neutral opinions. That said, the book is The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross, and it's damned fun (which is why that one scene was so frustrating). It's the second book in The Merchant Princes series, so you'd be best off reading The Family Trade first. Once you get past all the blurbs insisting you compare Stross to Zelazny (as I noted yesterday in another context, would you want to compare penis size to John Holmes?), the books are perfectly fun fantasy novels with some nice examinations of and twists on traditional genre motifs (although they seem to get as much hate as love on Amazon, especially by folks who seem to have expected something more than fluff -- the tendency of everyone from editors to critics to compare the series to Amber certainly doesn't help).
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Date: 2006-01-24 05:19 am (UTC)