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...but I loved it. *g* Which of course means that I now have to go out and find the other Lord John books. Well, I reckon it's good to have a stock of books you know you're going to enjoy reading when you move to a new place - it's a little bit of your own world in the new one, that joy of reading, right?
I remember Lord John a little bit from my reading a thousand years ago of the Outlander books, and what I do remember makes me even more intrigued about where this series will go. He was the baddie in those books, of course, but I do tend to like books and tv shows etc that remind us that baddies aren't actually baddies in many cases - they're not people who woke up in the morning and thought right, what evil thing can I do today? (quote Martin Shaw, btw! *g*), they're people who were doing the best they could with what they thought was right... which makes them far more interesting, I think.
Anyway - I like the way Gabaldon's drawn John Grey, and his relationships and heroism and foibles and all. He's like real person... *g* I'm frowning a bit about his relationship with Jamie (from Outlander) but that's cos I can't quite remember enough about it. What a shame - I'll have to search those books out of my storage and re-read them too... *vbg* He's also an interesting character because he's a gay man trying to survive in 1758 England, where "sodomites" were executed if they were caught too obviously, which means that there's a different dynamic than the whole yes-men-rule-the-world-and-women-aren't-as-important, which is somehow restful to read about (even though there's just as much injustice, obviously). And on that philosophical musing, I shall go and start my day - cos if I get packing this morning, I'm allowed one last trip to the fab bookshop in Ely to look for Lord John books... *vbg*
In the meantime - yeay, new book series to love! And thank you everyone who recommended them, and prompted me to give them another go!
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Date: Monday, 25 August 2014 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 25 August 2014 10:39 am (UTC)So glad you finally found Outlander, and Lord John and the Private Matter. I've not read the latter one yet - but it's winging its way to me right now... *g* Outlander itself feels more historical than anything else to me (perhaps partly because even the "modern" part is set just post-WWII), but I suppose it technically is... well, no! Though it depends on your definition of sci-fi I guess. But actually I don't remember much science in the fiction at all, the time-travel comes from a stone circle, so it's more legend and mythology and fairy stories than science fiction... In which case maybe you could shoehorn it into RIP! *g*
Oh and yeay - for some reason I was thinking RIP was just for a month, but it's two! I've been looking forward to it, so I'm really pleased we can actually start in... a week's time! A week today! Hurrah! I also realised that of course I have more than one supernatural book on my shelves waiting to be read, so I'll definitely be able to leap in, without even the excuse of needing to buy another book. *g*
I have a half-memory of having read one of the Hornblower books already, and liking it very much. I know I bought one of the books in the series when I saw it secondhand a year or so ago, and I could have sworn I'd left it on my shelf until I had the first two, but... I'm not sure. So I may find that I've already read this one - or even that it turns out to be in my storage - but I'm fairly confident that I will like it - and hopefully the whole series...