First off, some quick background: there’s a group of us who are undertaking what my wife calls the Crazy Hugo Project. We’re going to read all of this year’s Hugo Award nominees before the voting due date. The first one I’ve tackled is China Miéville’s The City & The City.
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I’m going for extra-credit on “Keeping it real” this week.
I’m feeling slightly shellfish about this week’s comic.
Ah, Tolstoy.
This is going to be a tough book to review, just like it was a tough book to read. It was written in 1877, and in Imperial Russia, both of which make it tough for a modern American reader. Every time I picked this up, it was an effort to wade back in. Tolstoy’s characters go off on interminable journeys of internal dialogue and philosophizing about the evolving role of nobility in society, on the virtues of hard work, of love and duty and all sorts of weighty important topics.
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This week’s comic has discovered that the truth hurts. It especially hurts the real estate market.
It’s not exactly seasonal, but this week’s comic has a childlike sense of magic to it…