C. J. Cherryh, Foreigner
Aug. 7th, 2007 05:41 pmNoble Goal to Write Something At Last = TOTAL FAIL. (Do I even get to complain about this? I have to sit down and write for more than a few minutes before I can complain about this, right?)
Arrrrrrrggggggh. Here, have a rant on C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series:
( I'll have to tag this under bookblog but it really is just ranting )
My problem with this book might be just that the set-up is too much like a nightmare. A culture where you have to be polite all the time, because if you are not, and offend someone, even accidentally, they will kill you? Ahhhhhhhh! If this were a book about a human culture, I could survive by arguing that In Reality, It's Not Like That -- allowances are made for well-intentioned people, no one is going to kill you for something minor like dress code, at least not without warning you first -- but this is science fiction: you have to accept the premise or you are in for a long tough road of deluded anti-reading. I really don't want to accept the premise though. -_-;
Arrrrrrrggggggh. Here, have a rant on C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series:
( I'll have to tag this under bookblog but it really is just ranting )
My problem with this book might be just that the set-up is too much like a nightmare. A culture where you have to be polite all the time, because if you are not, and offend someone, even accidentally, they will kill you? Ahhhhhhhh! If this were a book about a human culture, I could survive by arguing that In Reality, It's Not Like That -- allowances are made for well-intentioned people, no one is going to kill you for something minor like dress code, at least not without warning you first -- but this is science fiction: you have to accept the premise or you are in for a long tough road of deluded anti-reading. I really don't want to accept the premise though. -_-;