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Comics Rec: A Distant Soil (Colleen Doran)
Tuesday, 4 March 2008 10:32 amTo be honest, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bettyboop_comic first gave me a synopsis of A Distant Soil I was quite sure I wasn't going to like it, even if he claimed the opposite thing. He lent me his copy of the first trade paperback, "The Gathering", despite my warning him that there was no way I was going to buy my own. But I took the book home and started to read, and read on and on and on and then I reached the back cover and e-mailed bettyboop_comic to ask how many of those books had come out and could I please buy them all at once and did he have loose issues too so I didn't have to wait for the next trade?
*g*
My explanation for my instinctive dislike and how easily (and thoroughly) it was overcome is that for me the strength of A Distant Soil lies in Colleen Doran's unique treatment of her story, not in the tale itself. In someone else's hands, the premises of the plot might have resulted in horrible cliché and annoying melodrama - two things to which I am very (according tobettyboop_comic overly) sensitive and that put me off a story, book or film immediately.
Warning: this rec is a bit longish. That sometimes happens when I start to talk about books that I love to bits... *blushes*
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bettyboop_comic first gave me a synopsis of A Distant Soil I was quite sure I wasn't going to like it, even if he claimed the opposite thing. He lent me his copy of the first trade paperback, "The Gathering", despite my warning him that there was no way I was going to buy my own. But I took the book home and started to read, and read on and on and on and then I reached the back cover and e-mailed bettyboop_comic to ask how many of those books had come out and could I please buy them all at once and did he have loose issues too so I didn't have to wait for the next trade?*g*
My explanation for my instinctive dislike and how easily (and thoroughly) it was overcome is that for me the strength of A Distant Soil lies in Colleen Doran's unique treatment of her story, not in the tale itself. In someone else's hands, the premises of the plot might have resulted in horrible cliché and annoying melodrama - two things to which I am very (according to
bettyboop_comic overly) sensitive and that put me off a story, book or film immediately. Warning: this rec is a bit longish. That sometimes happens when I start to talk about books that I love to bits... *blushes*
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