Book Meme pt 2
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extrapenguin5: Favorite series and why
AAAAAA.
Okay, well. The Honor Harrington series by David Weber, since I honestly love Honor as a character: she's competent, and struggles with self-esteem issues, which is relatable. Also totally clueless about femininity. And she soundly trounces her enemies and is always right in the end!
Other selling points: entertaining space battles where much goes BOOM, the women are generally well-characterized (they act like I think I'd act if I were in the RMN etc), the Queen is black, competence porn. Flag in Exile is my personal favorite pick-me-up.
(Honorable mentions: Robot series by Isaac Asimov,
6: Public library or personal library?
Personal library, so that I can stroke the spines of the books lovingly and give them good-night kisses. There's also the fact that most SF in Finnish seems to be genre-blending fantasy and/or Finnish Weird, and there's little to no English-language sci-fi there. (Translations have a habit of being very awkward. 'Tis a property of trying to hew to the original forms even a bit: the languages are too structurally different.)
7: What is the most important part of a book, in your opinion?
The plot. If there is nothing going on, then it must hold itself together by other means much, much more strongly. I do not read books for the fancy language. I read them for entertainment: plot (and worldbuilding).
8: Why are you reading the book you're currently reading?
Well, I'm currently reading The Vor Game because of the reread for the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vorkosigan comm. I'm NOT reading Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod, because he's committed the unforgivable sin of Funetik Akzint. I'm also not reading The Sea Without a Shore by David Drake, because it's book 10 of a series, whoops. (Though if book 1's good, I'll read everything in the series. I like Honor Harringtonesque MilSF.) I've yet to crack open the next book, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
AAAAAA.
Okay, well. The Honor Harrington series by David Weber, since I honestly love Honor as a character: she's competent, and struggles with self-esteem issues, which is relatable. Also totally clueless about femininity. And she soundly trounces her enemies and is always right in the end!
Other selling points: entertaining space battles where much goes BOOM, the women are generally well-characterized (they act like I think I'd act if I were in the RMN etc), the Queen is black, competence porn. Flag in Exile is my personal favorite pick-me-up.
(Honorable mentions: Robot series by Isaac Asimov,
6: Public library or personal library?
Personal library, so that I can stroke the spines of the books lovingly and give them good-night kisses. There's also the fact that most SF in Finnish seems to be genre-blending fantasy and/or Finnish Weird, and there's little to no English-language sci-fi there. (Translations have a habit of being very awkward. 'Tis a property of trying to hew to the original forms even a bit: the languages are too structurally different.)
7: What is the most important part of a book, in your opinion?
The plot. If there is nothing going on, then it must hold itself together by other means much, much more strongly. I do not read books for the fancy language. I read them for entertainment: plot (and worldbuilding).
8: Why are you reading the book you're currently reading?
Well, I'm currently reading The Vor Game because of the reread for the
vorkosigan comm. I'm NOT reading Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod, because he's committed the unforgivable sin of Funetik Akzint. I'm also not reading The Sea Without a Shore by David Drake, because it's book 10 of a series, whoops. (Though if book 1's good, I'll read everything in the series. I like Honor Harringtonesque MilSF.) I've yet to crack open the next book, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.