Outside of a Dog: Watt-Evans, Lawrence: Touched by the Gods

Trent Goulding

Trent Goulding wrote on March 22, 2002 at 8:23 PM:

Interesting. This is the second LWE I tried to read. The first, Dragon Weather pretty much fits your comments here about Touched: competent, fairly interesting, worth reading, probably not anything I'll read again. So I grabbed Touched from the library a couple months ago to give it a try. Maybe I was just having a bad hair day(s) or something, but I bogged down about a hundred or so pages into it. I just was finding that I not only didn't care about any of the characters, the plot itself wasn't doing anything for me either. I ended up turning it in without finishing it.

LWE is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the good authors of r.a.sf.w, by which I mean he's a good member of the community--interesting to read his comments, thoughtful, polite, etc. (see also Brenda Clough, Jo Walton (in past days); but see Flint and Stirling for examples of the opposite). So I would like to also like his books. Not a big deal, though.

Kate

Kate wrote on March 23, 2002 at 10:15 AM:

Perhaps it's that reading fast and having lots of time to read, the last few days, builds up momentum? If I had spread it out over several days, it might have been different.

And yeah, I picked this up for the same reason--seems like an interesting person, would like to like his books. This made me want to pick up other books--but not LWE's, though, The Curse of Chalion, to finish a review that's been mostly-done for a couple of months...

(And, Trent? It is unspeakably geeky for you to use Bluebook signals in casual conversation--and even worse that my first reaction was, "but see has to be in a separate citation sentence...)

Trent Goulding

Trent Goulding wrote on March 23, 2002 at 12:28 PM:

Hey, I threw those in just for you. Law students and their stupid in-jokes....