skygiants: Princess Tutu, facing darkness with a green light in the distance (les cloches)
skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote 2008-04-28 01:12 am (UTC)

'Engrossing' rather than 'enjoyable' is definitely the word. (And I know! I'm so excited, there's, like, actual discussion going on here! That I'm not necessarily involved in even!)

- oh, seriously? That's very cool - I am kind of jealous! I had read that she eventually converted to Judaism, which I found very interesting; I could see her interest in it in the book (and was kind of proud of myself for being able to translate some of the Hebrew). And the presence of history is an excellent point - and that's actually, now that I think about it, one of the few points in the novel where they actually acknowledge the damage that religion can and has done, so perhaps I appreciate it more now.

Oh, I totally believe that this expedition would occur. *grins* I have no doubts about the plausibility of it (and it is very funny in that way, too!) but I still feel that as a fairly secular person I would be uncomfortable with a group that was aligned with any particular religion - whether it was Judaism, Buddhism or Taoism - being the first delegation to a planet, just because it seems . . . unfair? . . . not to let a wider group be represented. But again, that's just me.

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