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Monday, December 04, 2006
 Ugh. One of our assignments for Fairytales class this week is an online novel called The Ice Puzzle, which makes my brain bleed and my eyes roll back in my skull for the sheer badness of it. It's perplexing. I've enjoyed (and often adored) all the other books we read this semester with the exception of The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, and at least in that case I could recognize the craft of the book and appreciate the larger metaphors. And the operas themselves were pretty awesome. I just loathed all the characters.
Whereas this? Drivel. Flowery, repetitive drivel with a dire case of metaphor abuse. Ko and I have been reading particularly egregious lines out loud and alternately laughing uproariously, groaning in sympathy, and marveling that Veronica--who has displayed impeccable taste so far--would assign this and have it not be a joke. I'm so glad Jim Butcher's Cursor's Fury comes out tomorrow. I'm really going to need to purge my mind after reading this. Urgh. 12 down, 13 chapters to go. It burns us, precious! Priscilla said at 6:44 PM Comments:
are you sure it's not a joke? or if not a joke, at least, i know some of my professors intentionally assign books that are flawed so that students can discuss them and pinpoint why they're flawed. i guess that's usually more in history classes than in english classes, but it can make for good discussions.
either way, sorry you're having a painful reading experience :(
I'd never heard of the story of the girl and the loaf until a group in one of my classes decided to use it for a theater piece they're putting together based on fairy tales centered around feet (...). They're performing it at a festival in Austin in ... February, under the group name M.E.M.E. - which made me giggle like a little girl.
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 : 6:28 PMTitle cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, used without permission.
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