tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post378533056223477999..comments2012-05-26T07:51:09.056-04:00Comments on Bookroll: FoundlingJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-17420592108643492402008-05-21T09:16:00.000-04:002008-05-21T09:16:00.000-04:00Perhaps if they had typeset it so that the Explica...Perhaps if they had typeset it so that the Explicarium pages were edged with grey (or some other color), it wouldn't be so much of a shock when the story ends; you could see it coming. As it is...<BR/><BR/>Re: being an evangelical Christian, I believe you also mentioned it in your last comment, and I saw it mentioned in an interview with him: "What would you most like to achieve? To be frank, pleasing God." (paraphrased) What I find particularly interesting is that he hasn't decided (he posted about this) where his world came from (on a fictional level) or what role religion has in it (as of whenever he posted). Too many times, when God is invoked in books, I see it either as (1) posing (e.g., the gods in <I>Orphans of Chaos</I>—not a book for children—are mostly petty, selfish, human gods, even if they are powerful) or (2) authorial intervention. I tend to read "It must be God's will" in a book as "It must be the author's will." I can't seem to think of an example right now, but I have the distinct feeling that I've come across this in the last few months.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-30900113850830684722008-05-20T21:48:00.000-04:002008-05-20T21:48:00.000-04:00I agree with your feeling that the story was just ...I agree with your feeling that the story was just beginning when the book ended -- a perception enhanced by discovering that the whole last quarter of the volume was the glossary and appendices. And here I'd been thinking I had nearly a hundred pages of story to go...<BR/><BR/>Mind you, the second book is more than twice the length, and I had the same "AGH IT CAN'T BE OVER YET" sensation when I came to the end of the last chapter (and again, found myself confronted with a plump set of appendices). However, I can definitely say that Things Do Happen in <I>Lamplighter</I>. Some very big things, in fact. Having finished Book Two a mere day ago, I am suffering an acute case of cliffhanger-itis at the moment.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I don't know if you came across this info in your wanderings anywhere, but D.M. Cornish is also an evangelical Christian.R.J. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503519800068573393noreply@blogger.com