Working backwards, you have no idea of the joy of having someone recognise (and approve) my user-name! It was amusing to see comments on one of your essays by someone with "penwiper" as their user-name, as that was one I'd found taken when I was trying to come up with something for my new LJ account. And yes, it would most likely be sartorias's page where you would have seen me.
Possibly it's only right for me to give fair warning about my Sapphique failure, as I wasn't as taken with it as with Incarceron. Or several of her other books. I wasn't entirely sure why, but it had something to do with the increasingly-frequent switches in character-setting, which was fine in the fist book, but started to feel annoying, something to do with the similarity of the group-dynamics to her other series' group-dynamics, and something about the almost perverse refusal to have any straight-forward romantic pairings when there was quite so much intense 'shipping. Does that make any sense? It might have been easier to let it ride if I hadn't heard there isn't likely to be a third book in the series, though.
To compensate, I did get to meet her - in real, non-virtual life and all! She was very nice, interesting and intelligent, as you'd imagine.
Oops - have to relinquish this computer now, so will just say I read your "The Problem of Susan" essay last night, and it was excellent.
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Date: 2008-11-16 07:54 pm (UTC)Working backwards, you have no idea of the joy of having someone recognise (and approve) my user-name! It was amusing to see comments on one of your essays by someone with "penwiper" as their user-name, as that was one I'd found taken when I was trying to come up with something for my new LJ account. And yes, it would most likely be
Possibly it's only right for me to give fair warning about my Sapphique failure, as I wasn't as taken with it as with Incarceron. Or several of her other books. I wasn't entirely sure why, but it had something to do with the increasingly-frequent switches in character-setting, which was fine in the fist book, but started to feel annoying, something to do with the similarity of the group-dynamics to her other series' group-dynamics, and something about the almost perverse refusal to have any straight-forward romantic pairings when there was quite so much intense 'shipping. Does that make any sense? It might have been easier to let it ride if I hadn't heard there isn't likely to be a third book in the series, though.
To compensate, I did get to meet her - in real, non-virtual life and all! She was very nice, interesting and intelligent, as you'd imagine.
Oops - have to relinquish this computer now, so will just say I read your "The Problem of Susan" essay last night, and it was excellent.