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[rodo]

I'm still behind schedule. *sigh* And I can't really think of anything clever to say, so this will be one of those random ramblings mentioned in blnchflr's latest post.

To be honest, I didn't do much lately. I read Corambis, which I didn't like quite as much as its prequels and which I found a bit disappointing as a last book in a series. I don't know why exactly, but I feel as if there was still a book left. I also didn't know quite what to do with the number of new characters, considering that most of the cast was the same in the first three books and none of them showed up again. Not to mention the really sloppy solution for the dialect of the Caloxan people ("dost", "thee", "thou" etc.).

I also spent hours on LibraryThing (link to my page), which I first found about two months ago via this wank report. And, well, I quite like it. Is there anybody else on my flist who has an account there? I have a feeling I know this person.

Comments

[lian]

oh, hey. I'm currently reading Mirador, but I'm not far in, maybe 50 pages. I'll need to decide if I find the series worth buying hardcover for with Corambis. Hmmmm.

... 'dost/thee/thou' as dialect coloration sounds, uh, painful indeed >_>;

[rodo]

You could always borrow it ;).

... 'dost/thee/thou' as dialect coloration sounds, uh, painful indeed >_>;

Especially considering that I thought she did a good job on Mildmay's distinguished speech pattern without this. She also often started sentences with verbs and used "an" instead of "if". Which I understood, after all it's more or less the same in German (well, I like leaving out the subjects), but it still seemed forced and artificial to me.

[dingsi]

I have an LT account, simply named Dingsi (it's linked on my profile page). Sadly, I never got into the community/networking part, but I just love being able to catalog and tag my books.

[rodo]

Yes, I suppose that's really usefull once I have the time to go through all my books at home as well, because it's sometimes a bit difficult to keep track of the books I have. For example, I think I have an Earthsea book somewhere under my bed at home, but I've never read it, I just grabbed it when the school library wanted to throw it away, so I can't really be sure ...