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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9110597" data-attributes="member: 18">Hmmmm every other Seanan McGuire book I tried to read, I also bounced off, maybe I need to give this one a chance.Talking of fairy-tale-inspired fantasy, a big shout-out to Naomi Novik's Uprooted, which is just amazing, memorable and kind of hot, and a big thumbs-down to her Spinning Silver which is both boring and features a bizarre apologia for landlords as &quot;the real victims&quot; and also very much not hot (bonus implication that you're anti-Semitic if you're not pro-landlord lol). Not Novik's first book to get into a needless and very strange defense of particularly acquisitive capitalism either! The Temeraire series eventually devolves from cheery Napoleonic nonsense into almost Ayn Randian idiocy but involving dragons. I don't want a dragon's opinion on economics, I particularly am not down with creatures that conventionally represent human greed at its worst lecturing me Gordon Gekko-style, but we're supposed to agree with them!* Can't we go back to the Napoleonic warfare? To Master &amp; Commander with dragons? Apparently we could not. Still, Uprooted, forget the rest. Also weirdly it kind of seems like the Deadly Education series might be a counterpoint to her own earlier work, but I haven't read the third book because what if it isn't?* = What next, a redux of Wall Street starring Smaug?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9110597, member: 18"] Hmmmm every other Seanan McGuire book I tried to read, I also bounced off, maybe I need to give this one a chance. Talking of fairy-tale-inspired fantasy, a big shout-out to Naomi Novik's [I]Uprooted[/I], which is just amazing, memorable and kind of hot, and a big thumbs-down to her [I]Spinning Silver[/I] which is both boring and features a bizarre apologia for landlords as "the real victims" and also very much not hot (bonus implication that you're anti-Semitic if you're not pro-landlord lol). Not Novik's first book to get into a needless and very strange defense of particularly acquisitive capitalism either! The [I]Temeraire[/I] series eventually devolves from cheery Napoleonic nonsense into almost Ayn Randian idiocy but involving dragons. I don't want a dragon's opinion on economics, I particularly am not down with [I]creatures that conventionally represent human greed at its worst[/I] lecturing me Gordon Gekko-style, but we're supposed to agree with them!* Can't we go back to the Napoleonic warfare? To Master & Commander with dragons? Apparently we could not. Still, [I]Uprooted[/I], forget the rest. Also weirdly it kind of seems like the [I]Deadly Education[/I] series might be a counterpoint to her own earlier work, but I haven't read the third book because what if it isn't? * = What next, a redux of Wall Street starring Smaug? [/QUOTE]

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