The Historian
Aug. 15th, 2007 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrFinished. Overall, liked it. Definitely a slow book, I guess it can't be helped. Only the end really irked me, and it's mostly for personal reasonas, not necessarily genuine flaws with the story.
First off, I just don't get why we had to end things mostly sad. I mean after all they fucking went through, after all the pages I slogged through, I don't think it's too much to ask that we get a bit more of a happy ending. Beyond that, nothing was really and truly resolved was it? It all kind of end on a 'haha, bitches' note which just grates. I totally am behind not really letting a story end, that's fine. No story can end, unless you kill all parties involved. But come on. I hate this crap that nothing is allowed to be happy.
I mean I know I favor sparkles and light. But you know, it's not that I can't see the unhappier stuff in my stories. It might surprise a few to know I'm well aware of how many of my characters eventually die, and some of the bad shit that might befall them. I know full and well life isn't sparkles and light. That's why I prefer to just leave my readers, my chars, myself with a happy end. There's no reason to bog everyone down with the depressing details.
I really did like the book. The details were amazing, it was an interesting way to do Dracula, and I wish my brief stint as an historian had been half so exciting. I would love to travel like that, be that smart, so the book was fun for that reason.
Still. I want to close it feeling satisfied, eager to find out what else the author has or will be writing. Instead I was left feeling vaguely disappointed and I'll probably never read it again.
Up next is another random acquisition, from an author Amazon keeps throwing at me: The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
Now to must the energy to write or edit. So. Fucking. Tired. And tomorrow and Friday are going to suck so goddamn much I feel a headache just thining about it.
First off, I just don't get why we had to end things mostly sad. I mean after all they fucking went through, after all the pages I slogged through, I don't think it's too much to ask that we get a bit more of a happy ending. Beyond that, nothing was really and truly resolved was it? It all kind of end on a 'haha, bitches' note which just grates. I totally am behind not really letting a story end, that's fine. No story can end, unless you kill all parties involved. But come on. I hate this crap that nothing is allowed to be happy.
I mean I know I favor sparkles and light. But you know, it's not that I can't see the unhappier stuff in my stories. It might surprise a few to know I'm well aware of how many of my characters eventually die, and some of the bad shit that might befall them. I know full and well life isn't sparkles and light. That's why I prefer to just leave my readers, my chars, myself with a happy end. There's no reason to bog everyone down with the depressing details.
I really did like the book. The details were amazing, it was an interesting way to do Dracula, and I wish my brief stint as an historian had been half so exciting. I would love to travel like that, be that smart, so the book was fun for that reason.
Still. I want to close it feeling satisfied, eager to find out what else the author has or will be writing. Instead I was left feeling vaguely disappointed and I'll probably never read it again.
Up next is another random acquisition, from an author Amazon keeps throwing at me: The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
Now to must the energy to write or edit. So. Fucking. Tired. And tomorrow and Friday are going to suck so goddamn much I feel a headache just thining about it.
