Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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PARASITE open thread!

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: mira grant, pandemic time, parasite
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aiela

November 11 2013, 17:51:46 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, I'd figured out the "big reveal" before the book had even postulated that it was possible. I choose to believe this is intentional, because Seanan can be sneaky when she wants to, so I don't think she wanted to. I will admit it was a bit frustrating to me, though, to constantly go "WELL DUH BECAUSE X!"

I did see a post on...goodreads, I think? where someone was like "How could Symbogenesis not have known?" and it threw me, because to me, OBVIOUSLY they knew. Why else would they be so interested in her? It wasn't simply because her worm "saved" her. They knew full well what was going on, and wanted to study it. And they didn't want her to know.

naath

November 12 2013, 12:24:58 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, it was way to obvious to be meant to be sneaky... but Sal's ability to refuse to see what's in front of her, that's interesting and building up to her actually realising it consciously was super interesting.

ironed_orchid

December 12 2013, 11:20:33 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, that's how I read it.

What interested me was that Sal and Toby are alike in the not being able to see how certain facts apply to them until it gets spelled out. Even if they aren't alike in many other ways. I felt like Sal's backstory, and the reinforcement of how much she had to learn in 6 years, which meant she was an adult, but without some forms of maturity, made it believable, as did the potential horror of what she was avoiding thinking about.