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[vaznetti]

Someone on my flist mentioned Julian May's Pliocene Exile series a few days back; since my books are scattered through three countries (but only two continents!), I figured I'd take the opportunity to look at them again while they and I were in the same place. I picked up The Nonborn King and was struck by a couple of things. First of all, the attention to detail verges on the pathological -- the dinner menus, the descriptions of buildings and fabrics and all that kind of thing. It creates this truly bizarre texture to the world.

Marc Remillard remains a marvelous character in that "please let me never meet anyone like him in a dark alley" way, but he has the parenting skills of a distressed rabbit.

BH thinks that May is a better writer than I do; I find the style dull in places, although the plot here holds together better than the plot of the Milieu series. He also thinks that, if made by someone who really liked the books, they'd make a hell of s series of movies. And they really are so visual, and such an odd mix of the familiar and the alien -- devilled eggs on a silver platter served to telepathic aliens by ramapithecus, and that kind of thing. It might work.

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Comments

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Ah, Marc Remillard. Why don't you admit how in love with him you used to be? :) Good thing I am here to blackmail remind you of those days.

[vaznetti]

belive, me, evidence of my deep and abiding love for Marc is scattered all over this LJ, for those who care to see. I'm sure I've mentioned it before.

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

You know, I really should re-read those while I'm in re-read mode.

[vaznetti]

They're good, but really very strange. I have no idea what kind of crack May was smoking when she came up with the idea.

Re: Julian May

[vaznetti]

I think that too much happens for them to be a single movie (although you could probably compress by leaving a lot of stuff out). But the sheer richness of the universe is amazing.

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

I find it hilarious and somewhat envy-inducing that you're happy your books are scattered over only two continents. *g*

[vaznetti]

I had this running joke in grad school, when I was essentially living in three cities if you count SF, about knowing where all my shoes were. The books are a nightmare, though -- I mean, I still ahve boxes of them in my parents' basement. I'm trying to get everything work-related to Halifax, but heven that's a nightmare.

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

I just got twenty boxes of books and tapes out of storage, at last. They are sort of on shelves now, though the books are in no discernible order. The tapes, however, were boxed by accession number and set on their new shelves based on those same little numbers I spent agonizing hours over the years pasting on their spines. But I can find any episode of most of my shows by checking the finding aids. I am such an anal-retentive little former archivist!