I have not read this book

[james_davis_nicoll]

So this is not a review of the book. It is a review of the blurb intended to entice me to buy it.

I do not care for this blurb but am curious how other people react to it.

Comments

[alienne.livejournal.com]

There's a trilogy by Suzette Hayden Elgin in which the main character and her sister are named, respectively, Responsible and Troublesome.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Now that I can respect. If you're going to go with simplistic allegorical names, go large.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Control and Experiment.

[laetitia-apis.livejournal.com]

But that was a plot point -- the *parents* didn't name them, the soothsayer did.