[Dragaera] No traffic since February?

[Margaret Young]

Michele

I think one of the things I find so compelling about the Dragaera books
is the way in which they demand (of me) rereading.

Like you (others may have been more aware of these things) I was rather
blind-sided by things when Vlad and Cawti started to have problems—
then I needed to go back and reread the books.

Then needed to reread them not in publication order but in terms of
internal chronology (which creates problems when the books themselves
have flashbacks/flashforwards).

Then I _usually_ realize that all the hints were there.

Or else, as others have suggested, the hints are/were that Vlad is
(like all of us) an unrealiable narrator.

Margaret

>>> "Michele Riccio" <mr1 at rcosta.com> 3/14/2008 5:35:21 PM >>>
On 13 Mar 2008 at 15:23, Margaret Young wrote

> Thanks Michele — and my sympathies (concerns?) for what you went
> through.
> 
> One of the things that I found fascinating about the way in which
the
> Vlad/Cawti breakup was portaryed was the way in which Vlad wasn't
> shown as responding "like a man" if you know what I mean. So, here
he
> is, an assasin, an enforcer — and yet there was only a sense of
how
> powerless and physically ill he felt about the whole situation. He
> couldn't (and didn't think) he could make the problem go away by
being
> tough, he didn't feel that his pain diminished his manhood — it
just
> hurt. 
> 
What bothered me about the break up - then, was the sudden change 
in Cawti.  One minute she's an assassin - the next she's a 
revolutionary.  Now, looking back and factoring in that everything we 
know about her is filtered through Vlad, it seems a bit easier to
accept.  
I mean, she could have always had revolutionary leanings and Vlad 
just "ignored" that because it bothered him, or he didn't understand
it.

I hope I'm being clear enough.  It's been a long week - I will
apologize 
in advance if I unintentionally offended anyone  ;-)

M

Michele Riccio
mr1 at rcosta.com 


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