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Feb. 16th, 2011 10:45 amWell, I spent so long accidentally ranting about Kage Baker in the comments of yesterday's post that I may as well continue that trend today!
So the thing is, my feelings about Kage Baker are very strong. I pretty much grew up with the Company series; I think I read In the Garden of Iden the year it came out, and jumped on each new book as it was published. The things I love about the series I love, in the way you love the books that are part of you, and many of the characters will always be among my favorite characters of all time. The WTF of the end (and it is an epic WTF) is not quite enough to change that - which is unfortunate, in a way, because it means that I can't just walk away from the books of hers I know won't make me happy. (I will inevitably reread them all, too. Even The Machine's Child, which is pretty much all just buildup to the half of Sons of Heaven that is awful.)
And then Kage Baker died, and I thought that was it, and then I found out that a.) three posthumous novels of hers had been published, which in a way was like she had come back to life and given me some presents, and b.) one of them was a prequel all about Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN THE SERIES, which in a way was like she had come back to life and given me some presents and one of them was a front-row ticket to a punch in the face.
But if someone goes to all the effort to come back to life and give you a present, it's hard to say 'no thank you, I've heard that venue delivers punches to the face.'
So: ( Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's )
I now have one Kage Baker book left - The Bird of the River, which appears to be about an awesome girl on a river barge, and which I suspect I will like much better than either of these. This is, of course, on purpose; I would like the last new book I read by Kage Baker to be something I can love rather than a punch in the face.
So the thing is, my feelings about Kage Baker are very strong. I pretty much grew up with the Company series; I think I read In the Garden of Iden the year it came out, and jumped on each new book as it was published. The things I love about the series I love, in the way you love the books that are part of you, and many of the characters will always be among my favorite characters of all time. The WTF of the end (and it is an epic WTF) is not quite enough to change that - which is unfortunate, in a way, because it means that I can't just walk away from the books of hers I know won't make me happy. (I will inevitably reread them all, too. Even The Machine's Child, which is pretty much all just buildup to the half of Sons of Heaven that is awful.)
And then Kage Baker died, and I thought that was it, and then I found out that a.) three posthumous novels of hers had been published, which in a way was like she had come back to life and given me some presents, and b.) one of them was a prequel all about Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN THE SERIES, which in a way was like she had come back to life and given me some presents and one of them was a front-row ticket to a punch in the face.
But if someone goes to all the effort to come back to life and give you a present, it's hard to say 'no thank you, I've heard that venue delivers punches to the face.'
So: ( Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's )
I now have one Kage Baker book left - The Bird of the River, which appears to be about an awesome girl on a river barge, and which I suspect I will like much better than either of these. This is, of course, on purpose; I would like the last new book I read by Kage Baker to be something I can love rather than a punch in the face.
