Hee, I'm afraid my view of Piranesi is somewhat opposite to yours—I don't get along with modern literary fiction and liked it very much as a fantasy novel, and I love the first part. Though I thought the swerve into portal fantasy and 'it's actually the modern real world' worked well, as did the academic mystery backstory, and I ended up enjoying the later part of the book much more than I might have thought I would! Anyway, I'm glad you liked it.
What did you think of Laurence Arne-Sayles as a character? I went from initial ambivalence to liking him a lot, but I think I got there by thinking of him less as a real-world academic character and more as a fantasy figure with interesting parallels to my favourite character in JSMN, filtered through the fact of being a real-world academic...
I expect that I will consider future works from Clarke, as long as they’re also more conventionally-sized.
She has a new short book coming out in October, if you would like to consider it :)
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Date: 2024-07-05 09:36 am (UTC)What did you think of Laurence Arne-Sayles as a character? I went from initial ambivalence to liking him a lot, but I think I got there by thinking of him less as a real-world academic character and more as a fantasy figure with interesting parallels to my favourite character in JSMN, filtered through the fact of being a real-world academic...
I expect that I will consider future works from Clarke, as long as they’re also more conventionally-sized.
She has a new short book coming out in October, if you would like to consider it :)