I rather liked him. What was wrong with him?
His obsession with that black guy whose name I can't remember, fawning over him, generally ignoring or sabotaging everyone else - it wasn't really much fun to read about, and some parts of the book seem to deal with little else for long stretches at a time.
My favourite quote comes from one of those parts:
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim, and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant.
"This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said.
"My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!"
But I see what you mean. I think part of the reason I remember it so fondly is that I have forgotten anything that annoyed me.
*MySmiley*
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I need a book with a happy ending.
12/04/2011 02:14:15 PM
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The Princess Bride?
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12/04/2011 03:07:22 PM
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Already read it.
12/04/2011 06:34:05 PM
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Re: Already read it.
12/04/2011 06:37:46 PM
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I'll be honest; I'm looking for mind candy.
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12/04/2011 06:40:54 PM
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The Scarlet Pimpernel?
12/04/2011 06:44:54 PM
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Haven't read Wodehouse. *NM*
12/04/2011 06:48:51 PM
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He is funny.
12/04/2011 06:57:34 PM
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WHICH book? *NM*
12/04/2011 04:22:29 PM
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Well, you've read it, but it's huge spoilers for people who haven't!
12/04/2011 06:38:08 PM
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I don't know, dude...
14/04/2011 03:23:35 AM
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I seem to remember Modesitt's Towers of the Sunset had a romance element and a happy ending. *NM*
12/04/2011 05:23:39 PM
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Or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, perhaps?
12/04/2011 07:11:30 PM
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I was gonna suggest JS & MN as well. And Christie generally cheers me up as well, true. *NM*
12/04/2011 07:20:44 PM
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While not a bad read I don't even know what feeling that book caused in me
12/04/2011 07:47:08 PM
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I don't really count that as a happy ending, myself...
14/04/2011 09:03:53 AM
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You know, I do not remember how it ends...
14/04/2011 02:10:45 PM
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The ending is admittedly disappointing.
14/04/2011 07:53:29 PM
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Re: The ending is admittedly disappointing.
14/04/2011 10:00:52 PM
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He was annoying. Extremely so.
14/04/2011 10:06:16 PM
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Re: He was annoying. Extremely so.
14/04/2011 10:09:08 PM
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Temeraire by Naomi Novik
12/04/2011 07:14:01 PM
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Room is great, but hardly qualifies as mind candy if you ask me...
12/04/2011 07:23:10 PM
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation?
12/04/2011 07:30:18 PM
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The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell.
13/04/2011 09:09:09 AM
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Dragon Prince trilogy
13/04/2011 06:25:14 PM
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Some of my favorite books, but you're spot on with your caution about Dragon Star. *spoilers*
14/04/2011 06:12:16 PM
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Re: Some of my favorite books, but you're spot on with your caution about Dragon Star. *spoilers*
14/04/2011 06:36:39 PM
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