![]() ![]() Tomorrow, I’ll be putting up Sean’s thoughts on Budiansky so everyone can take in a different view of his work.Īnd if that wasn’t enough, I’ve also asked my good friend and cohost of the TransMissions Podcast, Charles to do the same thing. His enthusiasm for me to write this post prompted me to ask him to do the same thing. One of my readers who has been encouraging me to do this is Sean McCarthy. I’m even more taken back that I’ve gotten requests to talk about Budiansky’s run of Transformers when I got to this point in the comic reviews. I’ve been flattered that so many people have been reading my reviews of these comics. Building upon the ground work that Budiansky left behind, Furman takes the story to new and different highs. The man’s involvement from the beginning of the series now ends and Marvel UK writer, Simon Furman respectfully takes over. ![]() ![]() At this point my review of the classic Marvel Transformers comics, we have come to the end of Bob Budiansky’s writing for the series. ![]()
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On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and tale-spinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods-poetry, medicine, and now music-have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this passage, Isabel considers the importance of good manners: Others among us felt that the philosophical questions deeply enriched the novel. ![]() She’s pretentious and/or arrogant (two adjectives which I would not myself have thought to apply to her, so I was interested to learn that others found them apt, in the circumstances.)Īnn felt impatient with Isabel’s philosophizing she felt that it got in the way of the plot. (I probably didn’t mind this characteristic because her judgments so often agree with mine.) She keeps “bumping into herself” (love that locution!), trying to use reason to understand and control feelings, an effort that’s pretty much doomed to fail. In my post on The Careful Use of Compliments, I said that I envision Isabel as a model for a dress of the mid-twentieth century. ![]() She seems like someone in her sixties, not in her early forties, as she’s purported to be. Septemat 5:13 pm ( Book clubs, Book review, books, Mystery fiction)Īn especially interesting aspect of the recent Usual Suspects discussion of The Sunday Philosophy Club centered on Isabel Dalhousie’s character. ![]() The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith: a book discussion ![]() ![]() ![]() The period seems to have been as catastrophic in the East as the 5th century was in the West (the populations of imperial cities just collapsed). ![]() So, I'll give one a try and see what it's like. ![]() I now understand Sean Gabb has written a number of novels in 7th century Rome and Byzantium, under the pseudonym Richard Blake, which have had some good reviews. Heraclius was going to be the main protagonist and I was considering a POV for Muawiya. ![]() I briefly flirted with writing a super accurate historical novel about this period myself, and still have a draft of half a chapter which was going to be a prologue and featured Phocas marching to Constantinople to overthrow Maurice. It is the earliest account of the great war between Islam, on the one hand, and Rome and Persia on the other, and it also has good coverage of the 602-628 Romano-Persian war. So not a novel but the Armenian history by pseudo-Sebeos with the commentary by James Howard-Johnston is amazing. I have suffered similar disappointments with novels set during the crusades. It is disappointing because there is so much untapped potential. Count Belisarius also sets a very high standard. I'm always on the look out for novels about Byzantium in particular, but I usually end up staying away because they never look promising. ![]() |