{"id":162,"date":"2002-09-05T22:19:44","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=162"},"modified":"2002-09-05T22:19:44","modified_gmt":"2002-09-06T02:19:44","slug":"smith_sherwood_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/09\/smith_sherwood_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (03) A Prison Unsought"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m discovering that the other bad thing about the Exordium series being comprehensively out of print is that I don’t have anyone to discuss spoilers with. The end of book three, A Prison Unsought<\/cite><\/strong>, is so cool<\/cite>—a brilliantly done, heart-stopping page-turner—that I want to say to someone, “Wasn’t that cool<\/cite>? When so-and-so did this, and the underestimating, and that meeting, and that battle—and gosh, those last two pages!” And I can’t, because no-one else has read them.<\/p>\n

The first bad thing, of course, is that they’re good and a lot of people would really enjoy them. As I am.<\/p>\n

(My shower-thought for the day was “Hey, these are Guy Kay in spaaaace.” Which should be taken with several grains of salt because I’m really short on sleep, but it came to mind when thinking about a musical performance that Brandon arranged and the many different meanings everyone took from it. Besides music, there’s intrigue, the importance of history, brilliant rulers, complex sexual relationships, and something bittersweet and true. I don’t want to take this too far—the prose isn’t a point of similarity—but I thought it an interesting comparison. See, another reason for these to come back in print, so people can tell me I’m full of it . . . )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m discovering that the other bad thing about the Exordium series being comprehensively out of print is that I don’t have anyone to discuss spoilers with. The end of book three, A Prison Unsought, is so cool—a brilliantly done, heart-stopping page-turner—that I want to say to someone, “Wasn’t that cool? When so-and-so did this, and … <\/p>\n

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