Posted by Mike Berro on March 29, 1998 at 08:54:01:
In Reply to: Re: (spoiler!): About Ports of Call posted by Gene Muehlbauer on March 29, 1998 at 05:31:58:
: I agree. I kept waiting for a plot to develop. Now I'm thinking that "Ports of Call" was only a long, (maybe too long), teaser, and that one or more suspenseful stories (the search for lurulu, or perhaps Myron's aunt and her quest for the fountain of youth), will show up in the sequel.
I agree there's no plot, but that was true of CUGEL'S SAGA, for example. The plot was to return and get revenge, but that was incidental to the tale(s), and I'm not sure the book even had a "theme", although, like POC, one could argue the individual episodes did.
POC is a picaresque romance (in the old sense); a "Pilgrim's Progress". I wish it would go on forever, and never come to a conclusion. I can't bring myself to care if Myron's aunt gets her just desserts or not, as long as Myron continues to develop.