Comments on: February Reading http://wokay.in/2010/03/02/february-reading/ Country Are The New Pseud Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: roswitha http://wokay.in/2010/03/02/february-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-3195 roswitha Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:25:52 +0000 http://wokay.in/2010/03/02/february-reading/#comment-3195 Sense and Sensibility is possibly Austen's dodgiest novel - I think it's deeply unpleasant, but I'm still not sure if its because it lacks the relative clarity of Austen's purpose in her other work [only Mansfield Park is more ambiguous about its characters and it is a much more solid piece of writing] or if Austen really meant for it to be that misanthropic. Now I expect you don't have a problem with misanthropy, but it's not always on par with Austen's more civilising instincts as a novelist imho. I hope you do read Mansfield Park at some point of time. [Also - surely you meant 'case' and not 'crate'? Or is there another brilliant novel with 'crate' in its name?] Sense and Sensibility is possibly Austen’s dodgiest novel – I think it’s deeply unpleasant, but I’m still not sure if its because it lacks the relative clarity of Austen’s purpose in her other work [only Mansfield Park is more ambiguous about its characters and it is a much more solid piece of writing] or if Austen really meant for it to be that misanthropic. Now I expect you don’t have a problem with misanthropy, but it’s not always on par with Austen’s more civilising instincts as a novelist imho.

I hope you do read Mansfield Park at some point of time.

[Also - surely you meant 'case' and not 'crate'? Or is there another brilliant novel with 'crate' in its name?]

]]> By: Kunal http://wokay.in/2010/03/02/february-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-3192 Kunal Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:13:26 +0000 http://wokay.in/2010/03/02/february-reading/#comment-3192 Orson Scott Card is a much better writer of short fiction than he is of novels. Ender's Game is his best novel precisely because it is an expansion of a short story (also called Ender's Game). If you liked it you should read his short story anthologies and maybe Intergalactic Medicine Show but for the love of Joseph Smith do not get sucked into the rest of the Ender series. Orson Scott Card is a much better writer of short fiction than he is of novels. Ender’s Game is his best novel precisely because it is an expansion of a short story (also called Ender’s Game). If you liked it you should read his short story anthologies and maybe Intergalactic Medicine Show but for the love of Joseph Smith do not get sucked into the rest of the Ender series.

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