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🦋 Milton

I read To Reign in Hell this weekend and liked it. A few thoughts:

• How come fantasy authors like puns so much? The puns in To Reign in Hell are generally kind of weak and add little or nothing to the story; my memory suggests that this is generally true of the genre. An occasional bit of fun is one thing, but when it's happening every couple of pages, it becomes a distraction.
• The characters are generally great. Seems like it would be pretty difficult to sketch a divinity, and Brust's angels do come across as pretty human. Yahweh is a weak link, and I think it's because the attempt is to portray him explicitly as divine. Abdiel is very strong, and I don't see any similar attempt being made in his case; make of it what you will.
• I need to read Milton -- my understanding of the story was pretty facile based on lack of familiarity with the source text.

posted evening of Sunday, April 29th, 2018
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