My post on Thirteenth Child
May. 16th, 2009 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI've actually read that book, and I read it before any of this hit LJ or DW or anywhere, so I had no idea of the concept of this book other than "Wow, I didn't realize Wrede was publishing a book this year!"
1. It's not that great. I hate to say it, but it's just not that great. It dragged in parts and I kept losing track of characters.
2. I have to say, reading it, I didn't realize there were no Native Americans. It took me a few chapters to realize they were even on an Earth (unlike in, say, Dealing with Dragons where they clearly weren't), and then... I think I assumed statements of "people not living beyond the barrier" meant settlers (something I didn't blink at as it would be consistent with views of this time period) or that Native Americans had originally made the barrier, or that Native Americans had their own barriers to keep out the wildlife which they used and didn't share with the settlers. But I may be editing my thoughts after the fact to make myself look good in my own mind, I don't know.
This comment isn't intended to be very insightful, and I doubt it is, but as most people talking about this book don't seem to have read it I thought I'd go ahead and say it anyway. (Which doesn't make their comments invalid, especially as many of them concern what Wrede herself said while in the planning stages, of course, nor does it make them *wrong* just because I didn't pick up on this while reading.)
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1. It's not that great. I hate to say it, but it's just not that great. It dragged in parts and I kept losing track of characters.
2. I have to say, reading it, I didn't realize there were no Native Americans. It took me a few chapters to realize they were even on an Earth (unlike in, say, Dealing with Dragons where they clearly weren't), and then... I think I assumed statements of "people not living beyond the barrier" meant settlers (something I didn't blink at as it would be consistent with views of this time period) or that Native Americans had originally made the barrier, or that Native Americans had their own barriers to keep out the wildlife which they used and didn't share with the settlers. But I may be editing my thoughts after the fact to make myself look good in my own mind, I don't know.
This comment isn't intended to be very insightful, and I doubt it is, but as most people talking about this book don't seem to have read it I thought I'd go ahead and say it anyway. (Which doesn't make their comments invalid, especially as many of them concern what Wrede herself said while in the planning stages, of course, nor does it make them *wrong* just because I didn't pick up on this while reading.)
A link list to MammothFail
