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3.01 AVERAGE
3.01 AVERAGE
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
unhinged. just unhinged. also calling it semi-autobiographical is certainly an interesting choice. liked the very meta idea of building your own worlds in your mind but it was surrounded by unhinged content.
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I really liked this book - Cavendish is a strange bird, but fascinating!
This is a must-read for fantasy and science-fiction fans everywhere. The mother of the genre, Margaret Cavendish, inspired generations of readers and writers after her. This is like the grandmother of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials with bear-men at the North Pole, travelling between worlds, and religious introspection. I found it fun and easy to read, not weighed down by the usual conventions of seventeenth-century writing. There is a lot of focus on Cavendish's thoughts on science and the ways that science affects how we see the world and ourselves.
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The Empress was so wonderfully taken with the Discourse of the Worm-men
I'm not going to rate this because it was fiendishly boring. I enjoyed some of the descriptive elements, but the Blazing World is so far from my own idea of utopia that I found it hard to just sit back and take in the pages and pages of philosophical rambling.
I hated when the Louse-men couldn't give the Empress an accurate weight for air, so she declared their entire scientific society fraudulent and disbanded it. Not chill at all. I also hated when she cruelly burned down hundreds of villages to depose a bunch of kings so that her favored ruler could control the entire globe in a militaristic autocracy. Not even a little chill.
I'm not going to rate this because it was fiendishly boring. I enjoyed some of the descriptive elements, but the Blazing World is so far from my own idea of utopia that I found it hard to just sit back and take in the pages and pages of philosophical rambling.
I hated when the Louse-men couldn't give the Empress an accurate weight for air, so she declared their entire scientific society fraudulent and disbanded it. Not chill at all. I also hated when she cruelly burned down hundreds of villages to depose a bunch of kings so that her favored ruler could control the entire globe in a militaristic autocracy. Not even a little chill.
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I read about Margaret Cavendish in another book and fortunately my library had a copy of this. But then it turns out that 17th century British proto-feminist philosophical sci-fi is not really my thing and I didn't get much out of it. I even tried reading only a few pages a day, but nada. If you like any of those things, it's probably a great book.