I don't want to be in a fandom of one!

[perevision]

Has anybody...anybody at all...read Helen DeWitt's book The Last Samurai? And liked it? It's my favorite book in the whole world, ousting Arthur Brown's Audrey Hepburn's Neck and Mary Renault's Fire From Heaven. And yet I haven't found anyone who's read it. I tried to get people to read it, but they say they can't get through the first part and Sybilla's rambling verbal and mental incontinence.

I LIKE her mental incontinence. It sounds just like mine, only with a lot more substance.

In other news, I drew a fight scene I'm quite proud of, and when I've finished the Hephaistion chapter I'll scan it and put it up. Am thinking too of changing the comic format; it might get unwieldy once the whole new chapter is up. I never really liked Javascript anyway.

Comments

[bex-x3d.livejournal.com]

screw fight scenes....i'm more interested in the other drawings you've done lately ; )

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

What, you mean my PR0N? :P (Can't say pee-oh-ARR!-en on livejournal)

[bex-x3d.livejournal.com]

pron? i would if i knew what that meant : P

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

It means, er...items of a nature more erotic than aesthetic :)

[xibixibi.livejournal.com]

Is good or bad Fire From Heaven? I have it but never read it...

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

It's perfect. Read it. ^_^ Only sometimes she's a little vague, so I find myself thinking "did they or didn't they...?" and only understanding it after the third or so reading.

Ohhh...

[chockwit.livejournal.com]

Hi sweetie! So it's that good huh? I've had it for the past year but haven't gotten to it... read the 1st page or so but I swear I will finish it so we can discuss. ;)

Re: Ohhh...

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Hey there! ^_^ Well, you know me and my penchant for baklita Greek boys...

agrees

[cleo-eurydike.livejournal.com]

She does sex scenes by nature metaphor. O.o It was really lots of fun once I figured it out!

ditto on The Last of the Wine

At least with her Theseus novels she's like, "Well, and then he thrust his cock WOAH did I just say that?"

Re: agrees

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

She IS?! *ZOOMS to Amazon* ...oh, it's het isn't it? :P Shall get it anyway.

Possibly my favorite bit in Fire:

He eyed Hephaistion smiling. "Hush! You'll scare the foxes."

"I could kill you," Hephaistion said with rapture.

And then of course, am STILL wondering exactly what happened at the beach between Alexias and Lysis...perhaps now we're discussing the book I can get a little clarification.

Re: agrees

[cleo-eurydike.livejournal.com]

But Hippolyta is so sexy! I wuv her. In The King Must Die, Mary does a couple of shameless lesbian plugs. Is hilarious.

On the beach? Nothing happened - and I don't mean that in the Shakespearen sense. That was the whole point of the scene. They were about to have sex, sorely tempted, and then they decided not to. Lysis drank Alexias's blood, so they considered themselves still to be bound.

The REAL sex scene happens after the boar hunt, when they drink together. Right when the rain comes, we're supposed to assume they're making love. It's so dirty, once you get through it.

I'm not quite sure exactly when Alexander and Hephaistion first lose their virginities to each other in Fire From Heaven. I mean, the whole scene is obvious, and afterwards it's pretty clear that something happened. Maybe it's not put down to an actual line, but in the case that it was, I have settled on this:

The dead roots of the fallen tree sheltered the hollow; its bottom was soft with last year's deep-drifted leaves.

It you look at it symbolically, it's actually quite graphic.

Re: agrees

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

That clears up a LOT. Oh, and I figured out the bit with the foxes in Fire--there's a bit where the fox comes back, "disturbed by their breathing" I think, then "Alexander, who had closed his eyes, did not open them again" or something like that. ♥ God, I love that book.

Hmm, need more book icons, possibly.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

YAY I am not alone. But to think like Sybilla, you'd have to be able to think in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Swedish, Danish and Bengali. @_@

"Oh LOOK it's got the Inuit for God Save The King!" XD

I love Ludo more than Sybilla, though. *cuddles teh brilliant boi*

Happy Birthday!

[larochka173.livejournal.com]

This is the book with the brown cover and a samurai. Its about this mother and her son. Always meant to read it but never got to...

Re: Happy Birthday!

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yup it is. If you can get past the mum's digressions it's a very good story.