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Aug. 3rd, 2003 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandHmph. Claremont closed for staff barbecue, so I went to the Indian place, which is good but bloody expensive (and always more so than I anticipated, somehow). Then I napped. Woke up to a half-hearted thunderstorm -- sheet lightning, chest-of-drawers thunder, not much rain. Seems to have stopped now.
Still reading this -- I keep putting it down and picking it up again, a sign that it's not really grabbing me, but it's decent. I found it infuriating for the first 150 pages because each character would get about a 3-page scene and then we'd move on to somebody else, never to see the people already introduced again. But it's better now. I found it a bit smacking of tokenism in spots (we need an example of every possible type of person in this cast!). And I would personally have made the Manitoba farm family Ukrainian, but I suppose that might have confused the issue...
My American history isn't nearly solid enough to tell whether the alternate version is any good, however. Anyway. Going to putter a bit and go to bed properly.
Still reading this -- I keep putting it down and picking it up again, a sign that it's not really grabbing me, but it's decent. I found it infuriating for the first 150 pages because each character would get about a 3-page scene and then we'd move on to somebody else, never to see the people already introduced again. But it's better now. I found it a bit smacking of tokenism in spots (we need an example of every possible type of person in this cast!). And I would personally have made the Manitoba farm family Ukrainian, but I suppose that might have confused the issue...
My American history isn't nearly solid enough to tell whether the alternate version is any good, however. Anyway. Going to putter a bit and go to bed properly.
