http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/ Active Voice for Active Readers Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:16:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-110 Jessica Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:59:26 +0000 http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-110 So you're letting me borrow these, right? I'll let you borrow, uh...man, why are all of mine lousy? So you’re letting me borrow these, right? I’ll let you borrow, uh…man, why are all of mine lousy?

]]> http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-111 I (Belatedly) Read the Internets - 9/24/07 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:05:44 +0000 http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-111 [...] take on Daughters of Earth (she seems to have enjoyed it as thoroughly as I did) and an enthusiastic review of The Underland Chronicles from Active Voice’s [...] […] take on Daughters of Earth (she seems to have enjoyed it as thoroughly as I did) and an enthusiastic review of The Underland Chronicles from Active Voice’s […]

]]> http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-144 Active Voice » Alex and the Ironic Gentleman Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:23:50 +0000 http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-144 [...] Like Rebecca with the Gregor books, I’m a little at a loss to talk about this one aside from just saying “And also, this was awesome!” The various wacky characters were all really fun, and the book is full of the kind of passages you want to read aloud to everyone around you, much to their annoyance, like this one from the introduction to one of the minor villains: Now you shouldn’t feel sorry for him because he had never had eyes and had been born that way. And if you have never had something you can’t really miss it. Once upon a time, he had had his nose, however, and he missed that terribly. Even more than he missed his ears, and definitely more than he missed his hands. Again, though, you shouldn’t feel bad for him because though this all sounds unpleasant, and it really is, he could still hear things through the holes in the sides of his head, and he could still grab things with the elegant wooden hands designed to replace the originals. [...] […] Like Rebecca with the Gregor books, I’m a little at a loss to talk about this one aside from just saying “And also, this was awesome!” The various wacky characters were all really fun, and the book is full of the kind of passages you want to read aloud to everyone around you, much to their annoyance, like this one from the introduction to one of the minor villains: Now you shouldn’t feel sorry for him because he had never had eyes and had been born that way. And if you have never had something you can’t really miss it. Once upon a time, he had had his nose, however, and he missed that terribly. Even more than he missed his ears, and definitely more than he missed his hands. Again, though, you shouldn’t feel bad for him because though this all sounds unpleasant, and it really is, he could still hear things through the holes in the sides of his head, and he could still grab things with the elegant wooden hands designed to replace the originals. […]

]]> http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-631 Active Voice » Meta: Cover Blurb No-Nos Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:57:36 +0000 http://www.active-voice.net/2007/09/23/the-underland-chronicles-all-five-books/#comment-631 [...] around three male characters. I will happily read and enjoy books with a male protagonist (the Gregor books were probably the best things I read all last year), but if there’s no female character [...] […] around three male characters. I will happily read and enjoy books with a male protagonist (the Gregor books were probably the best things I read all last year), but if there’s no female character […]

]]>