*giggle*

[lnr]

Just finished Mil Millington's "Things my girlfriend and I have argued about" to collapse in fits of giggles and incredulity by the end of it. The whole thing is utterly utterly daft and really rather charming.

Next on the to-finish-reading pile are half of Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" short story collection, almost all of Mieville's "King Rat", and most of "Catch 22". The latter might get skipped again though as I've read it before.

In other news I seem to be rapidly running out of tact and diplomacy, for which I can only apologise.

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Hmmm.

[songster.livejournal.com]

Wasn't too impressed by "Things", actually.

(trying to avoid spoilers, so I'll talk in generalities)

It read too much like a large collection of Things joined one after the other, with no flow between them - kind of textual stop-motion animation with the stop being too obvious. The genesis as a newspaper column is *too* glaring. He's tried to graduate to a novel, but unfortunately IMO fails.

Also, the ending's pretty naff - he spends the entire book throwing more balls in the air to give the protagonist more to juggle, and then, just at the point when everything *has* to fall down..... it stops.

It's very funny vignettes and acerbic comment, but if you want that, just read his column.