Red Mars, Mars Bars

[ailbhe]

I liked Red Mars, and then there was Green Mars, and then there was Blue Mars, and really, I think Red Mars had a real novel in there, but the other two had some bright ideas about terraforming and oh hang on aren't we supposed to have a story I wonder where I can find a plot oh yes let's use sexlives that'll do anyway about this desert-into-oceans thing, you need plants...

I had a Mars Bar the other day, first time in years. They're not as good as I remember. I liked the caramel flavour but the rest wasn't worth eating, really. Sugar hit! I must work out how to do non-dairy non-soya caramel or chewy toffee. I have some bonfire toffee but it's more like butterscotch to my mind; toffee is chewy, not sharp.

Emer is still mostly off sugar, but we've found some sugarfree sweets for her, so it's not as difficult. Though she had a banana after brushing her teeth this evening. Still, it seems like her tooth doesn't actually hurt, that was a temporary state of affairs possibly in the hope that it would stop me brushing her teeth one day. Dint work.

I continue to compare, several times a day, Linnea's life with mine at her age. It's startling. My mother got pretty thoughtful about it earlier today, too.

Linnea is so much like me, in so many ways. It's going to be exciting to see where she goes. Not where I did, I promise you that!

Comments

[supermouse]

I like the way this post links one paragraph to the next. Anyway. I think I'll pass on the Mars books (and the bars).

Note on the Spellsinger Cycle or whatever it's called, one book is The Soprano Sorceress and the other is The Spellsong War and there's a third apparently. Don't bother. Unless you really, really, really like mucus.

[ailbhe]

I already did. Years ago. I didn't really really really like mucus, but I quite liked the idea of a middle-aged woman at the end of her career suddenly being in a position of power.

Not three books' worth of like, like. But still.

[supermouse]

I liked the idea and was, at first, won over, but got put off by all the natives being dirty, primitive and/or stupid, and her increasing use of torture and mind-control, and...

There's this scene in book one where there's been a flood and she's visiting it. The peasants explain that there's no clean water to drink, none. So she asks for dirty water and spells several buckets of it clean.

And then bathes in it. Ugh. I mean, luckily that world seems not to have cholera, but... ugh. From that point on, I lost all sympathy with her.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*contemplates the connections of Mars and sugar*

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

mars, the god of sug-war"

- and general hyperactivity'n'aggression ?

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

that actually sounds like i'll enjoy them. because, really, a plot is well and good, but terraforming is fascinating :)

[ailbhe]

They'd be a lot more enjoyable (and about 75% shorter) if he hadn't tried to cram plot in there alongside the stuff he was interested in, yes.

Sadly, it's in there now.