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Kon Tiki level of nonsense
Sep. 10th, 2012 10:49 pmToday I read After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress and enjoyed it moderately. It reminded me of William Sleator. Yay, bitter teenagers of the creepy post-apocalypse? I wished for a little more moral complexity but liked the book anyway.
I picked up 1421 in the library thinking maybe it would be interesting. It is amazing nonsense and surpasses Thor Heyerdahl times a million for unscholarliness. I really want the bit about the sea otters specially trained to herd schools of fish into the nets of Zhang He's fleet to be true. Really? Trained sea otters? That would be awesome. The part about secret maps and stones and how China is amazingly the most civilized civilization ever because of how well it sexually oppresses and enslaves women, I could give a miss. The entire fake history is very annoying, but I'm still reading it. If it had just been written up as fiction, that would have been okay (without the massive amount of romanticizing & exoticizing 1400s China). Oh well. But, if you liked laughing at Thor Heyerdahl then you might enjoy mocking this book.
We watched the first half of The Right Stuff which is not mixing well with post-apocalypse teenagers in a horrible dome zoo prison, or with the lovingly made-up descriptions of how great the ship's whores were in 1421, but which was very enjoyable and amusing if a bit slow & dragged out. I may have enjoyed the explosions best.
I picked up 1421 in the library thinking maybe it would be interesting. It is amazing nonsense and surpasses Thor Heyerdahl times a million for unscholarliness. I really want the bit about the sea otters specially trained to herd schools of fish into the nets of Zhang He's fleet to be true. Really? Trained sea otters? That would be awesome. The part about secret maps and stones and how China is amazingly the most civilized civilization ever because of how well it sexually oppresses and enslaves women, I could give a miss. The entire fake history is very annoying, but I'm still reading it. If it had just been written up as fiction, that would have been okay (without the massive amount of romanticizing & exoticizing 1400s China). Oh well. But, if you liked laughing at Thor Heyerdahl then you might enjoy mocking this book.
We watched the first half of The Right Stuff which is not mixing well with post-apocalypse teenagers in a horrible dome zoo prison, or with the lovingly made-up descriptions of how great the ship's whores were in 1421, but which was very enjoyable and amusing if a bit slow & dragged out. I may have enjoyed the explosions best.
