Monday, 17 May 2010
A Brief Musical Interlude
Speaking of the talented Mr Roberts, he may have entirely nailed why I love Chess so much as a musical: it consists almost entirely of people shouting at each other over squall of rock guitar. I had thought that it might have something to do with the multi-layered metaphor and exploration of love as obsession and vice versa, but no: it's probably all about the shouting...
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I read punkadiddle regularly, Adam Roberts is an excellent reviewer/blogger. He's also a very interesting SF writer, I'd recommend giving him a try.
Actually, you probably deserve a h/t, I started reading him after you mentioned his WoT reviews over at the SFX forum.
You might be interested in his look at LOTR on his other blog; the links are gathered on punkadiddle here: http://punkadiddle.blogspot.com/2009/12/tolkien-lord-of-rings-1954-5.html
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