{"id":721,"date":"2011-08-12T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=721"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:39:59","slug":"brust_tiassa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2011\/08\/brust_tiassa\/","title":{"rendered":"Brust, Steven: (113) Tiassa<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"

My attitude toward Steven Brust’s Tiassa<\/cite><\/strong> is pretty mixed. On one hand, it has a great deal of cool stuff in it (Devera POV! Paarfi doing Vlad’s dialogue, which is hilarious<\/em>! Answers to some long-standing questions!) On the other hand—well, actually, there are two other hands.<\/p>\n

The first other hand is that this is another interstitial book and, as with Iorich<\/cite><\/a>, I still want forward movement.<\/p>\n

The second other hand is that my initial reaction to the events of the book was that they were mildly dissatisfying in and of their own right. rushthatspeaks argued persuasively<\/a> (link to day view so as to preserve spoiler cut, scroll down) that I was looking at the book in the wrong way. I’ve since re-read with that perspective in mind, and I agree with it, but I’m not sure I would have come to that conclusion on my own—which makes me think that I do not think like a Tiassa, whereas rushthatspeaks does. (I’m not sure what House I think like. You’d think it’d be Iorich, with being a lawyer and all, but I didn’t understand Iorich<\/cite>‘s plot either. Next time I re-read the series it will be fun to look at books with that question in mind.)<\/p>\n

At any rate, on the re-read, this was enjoyable, but I continue to be distracted by fretting about the overall direction of the series. Which I freely admit says more about me than anything else, but hey, this is why this is a personal booklog and not a set of formally-published reviews.<\/p>\n

And now, to figure out why The Dragaera Timeline<\/a> keeps hanging Calibre when I try to add it as an e-book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My attitude toward Steven Brust’s Tiassa is pretty mixed. On one hand, it has a great deal of cool stuff in it (Devera POV! Paarfi doing Vlad’s dialogue, which is hilarious! Answers to some long-standing questions!) On the other hand—well, actually, there are two other hands. The first other hand is that this is another … <\/p>\n

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