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Bryn Hammond
is 52% done
The main character is the aesthetic. It's like a Gustave Moreau painting. So curious what the author's influences were.
— Dec 29, 2021 11:16PM
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Bryn Hammond
is 90% done
Perversely enough I've liked this a little less once the plot started plotting and also he found his boyfriend. It's lost that Moreau-painting static quality.
Found on the internet: 'Moreau was an advocate of two linked principles: the Beauty of Inertia and the Necessity of Richness.' Other than Flaubert's Salammbo, I never met a novel that more captured this. I swear it should be from the 1890s, not the 1990s.
— Dec 31, 2021 04:18PM
Found on the internet: 'Moreau was an advocate of two linked principles: the Beauty of Inertia and the Necessity of Richness.' Other than Flaubert's Salammbo, I never met a novel that more captured this. I swear it should be from the 1890s, not the 1990s.
Bryn Hammond
is 21% done
I can see why he edited this down for the second edition -- this first is 640 pp in the paperback -- but it's written with such originality and good prose that its detail has not tired me. I'm hoping to like the series enough to read the second editions in future.
— Dec 28, 2021 02:30PM
Bryn Hammond
is 7% done
reading the old version although the second editions (2020) have such gorgeous covers. Promising so far, reminds of Moorcock.
— Dec 26, 2021 06:26PM

