Thursday, December 18, 2008

A Funny Thing Happened...

while reading Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City. After about 200 or so pages of being pretty engrossed in the book and enjoying the two stories centered around the main character, I realized that there's very much a greek tragedy feel to it so far. But also, there's a moral theme playing out, with so many of the characters being immoral or having very ambiguous ethical systems, and yet noticing the "goodness" or lack thereof, in others. Makes me want to write an essay on the novel.