Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
Figured I should actually post something about it, seeing as I am quite absorbed by the book.
I'm now 6 or 7 chapters in, making it close to the 3/4 mark. It was quite easy to get into and started off slowly with the story of how the main protagonist, Takeo, was orphaned when his village was destroyed by a rival Lord. Yes, rival Lord. It's set in a quasi-feudal Japan period in an imaginary world, ie, doesn't correspond with any particular or exact historical period of our feudal Japan.
So. It all unfolds quite nicely and is easy to get into. Hearn's style has something that irks me, but as yet I can't really put my finger on it exactly. I think this irkiness may be something along the lines of him making major sort of statements, but sort of generalises them - where he puts them in the paragraph (towards the end) tends to trivialise them. Perhaps. Maybe it's just me ;)
But generally, it's just the write amount of prose and description. No blocks of Ricean prose or pages of description about a single petal of a flower, nosiree.
And I have the hots for Lord Otori Shigeru. That is all. *grin*
I'm now 6 or 7 chapters in, making it close to the 3/4 mark. It was quite easy to get into and started off slowly with the story of how the main protagonist, Takeo, was orphaned when his village was destroyed by a rival Lord. Yes, rival Lord. It's set in a quasi-feudal Japan period in an imaginary world, ie, doesn't correspond with any particular or exact historical period of our feudal Japan.
So. It all unfolds quite nicely and is easy to get into. Hearn's style has something that irks me, but as yet I can't really put my finger on it exactly. I think this irkiness may be something along the lines of him making major sort of statements, but sort of generalises them - where he puts them in the paragraph (towards the end) tends to trivialise them. Perhaps. Maybe it's just me ;)
But generally, it's just the write amount of prose and description. No blocks of Ricean prose or pages of description about a single petal of a flower, nosiree.
And I have the hots for Lord Otori Shigeru. That is all. *grin*