I’m kind of fried this morning– it’s been a long week full of after-work events associated with the end of the year– so I’m not up to doing weighty posts about physics, so here’s a lighter discussion topic:<\/p>\n
\nWhat’s the last non-Internet thing you read for fun?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Blogging and work have cut into my pleasure reading recently, but the most recent thing I read just for amusement was Vol. 7 of Bill Willingham’s Fables<\/cite> comic book series, titled Wolves<\/cite>. The last regular book I read was Kenneth Oppel’s Skybreaker<\/cite>, a sequel to Airborn<\/cite><\/a>, his YA novel about a quasi-Victorian world full of giant world-circling airships.<\/p>\n
Brief comments about them below the fold:<\/p>\n
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Wolves<\/cite> wasn’t all that great. I wan’t really blown away by the first few volumes, of course, but Kate enjoyed them more than I did, and has continued getting them out of the library. Each volume takes about twnety minutes to read, so I’ve kept up.<\/p>\n
This particular volume had a sort of tying-up-loose-ends quality to it, even though it’s not really the end of the story. That would’ve kept it from being great, even if there hadn’t been a somewhat unpleasant intrusion of real-world politics into the story. With that, it was, well, not all that much fun to read.<\/p>\n
Skybreaker<\/cite>, on the other hand, was just about exactly as entertaining as the previous book. The overall setting continues to not make much sense, but there’s enough swashbuckling fun (what is<\/strong> a swash, anyway, and why does one buckle it?) to overlook that. The plot centers on a bold expedition to reach a legendary lost airship, and has a little bit of everything from piracy in the upper atmosphere to good old-fashioned Mad Science.<\/p>\n
There’s maybe one reversal of fortune too many in the ending, but other than that, it’s a good, entertaining read.<\/p>\n
So what’s the last book you read just for entertainment? It doesn’t have to be fiction, mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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