tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post5132651646128874567..comments2023-12-23T02:10:09.875-05:00Comments on howl at pluto: Reading notes, with movie postscriptLFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-42211520123397207782013-05-02T16:16:09.243-04:002013-05-02T16:16:09.243-04:00P.s. I do think there are some interesting questio...P.s. I do think there are some interesting questions about artificial intelligence etc raised in the bk -- tho maybe i think they're interesting only b/c i haven't read much SF. I actually started to write a post on that but then decided i shd finish the bk first.LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-70677533912528871912013-05-02T16:13:25.854-04:002013-05-02T16:13:25.854-04:00Re 'Matter':
It's not so much a parti...Re 'Matter':<br /><br />It's not so much a particular story line that's dragging -- well, maybe it is. Here's one of my problems: I can't *really* get heavily into the Prince-Ferbin-and-his-trusty-servant-from-the-neo-medieval-(or-whatever)-Sarl-seek-justice thing. B/c Ferbin is given these lines that are sort of banal, if well-written, rehashes of basically what a Shakespearean figure in his position wd say (or it's like Shakespeare crossed w soap opera, maybe). Which is a problem b/c Banks, while good, is not Shakespeare.<br /><br />I don't know if that's coherent, but it's the best I can do right now w/o having the bk rt in front of me to quote from. Anyway, I intend to finish -- I'm more than halfway through at this pt, I'd say -- even tho the ending won't be a surprise b/c I already know what happens.LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-89163039189867336442013-05-02T15:13:35.834-04:002013-05-02T15:13:35.834-04:00Is there a particular storyline in "Matter&qu...Is there a particular storyline in "Matter" that's dragging for you? Because I have a theory about that.<br /><br />Not sure I ever finished "Social Contract," tho I know I read the 2d Discourse. Never a Rousseau fan. Let us know if anything fun happens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com