Comments on: june reading http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/396 Laura Crossett on the LIS domain Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:07:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: laura http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/396/comment-page-1#comment-97024 laura Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:52:02 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/?p=396#comment-97024 Ah, well, "maddening" may have been an overstatement -- my chief annoyance as a reader is that of course I desperately wanted to get back to John/Attar in Afghanistan, after his meeting in the caves, and getting whisked away to his mother's perspective left me wanting to say, "but, but, but!" -- in somewhat the same way that I want to grab Jane Eyre at the end of her book to say, "but HOW did you marry him???" So what I mean by maddening, I suppose, is really a compliment -- that it made me have to think, and to grapple with what may have happened, and with uncertainty, and with all the other things that I think are good and important in fiction. Of course, that doesn't prevent me entirely from wondering, and wishing for more, but I hope it explains my reaction a bit better than my rather hasty blurb. Ah, well, “maddening” may have been an overstatement — my chief annoyance as a reader is that of course I desperately wanted to get back to John/Attar in Afghanistan, after his meeting in the caves, and getting whisked away to his mother’s perspective left me wanting to say, “but, but, but!” — in somewhat the same way that I want to grab Jane Eyre at the end of her book to say, “but HOW did you marry him???”

So what I mean by maddening, I suppose, is really a compliment — that it made me have to think, and to grapple with what may have happened, and with uncertainty, and with all the other things that I think are good and important in fiction. Of course, that doesn’t prevent me entirely from wondering, and wishing for more, but I hope it explains my reaction a bit better than my rather hasty blurb.

]]> By: Pearl Abraham http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/396/comment-page-1#comment-97023 Pearl Abraham Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:28:32 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/?p=396#comment-97023 I'm interested in what you find so maddening in the ending of AMERICAN TALIBAN and why. Let's discuss it. I’m interested in what you find so maddening in the ending of AMERICAN TALIBAN and why. Let’s discuss it.

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