1. There's supposedly a Charles Perry article which theorizes that the Turks invented baklava. I'm meaning to look it up.
2. I think you'd have the same response to this one: it was fun, I was sucked in far enough to spend all evening reading it, and there were some nifty details in the setting, but a bunch of the plot depends on romance, and the characters didn't feel individual enough for the romance to be entirely satisfying.
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Date: 2006-11-19 07:31 pm (UTC)2. I think you'd have the same response to this one: it was fun, I was sucked in far enough to spend all evening reading it, and there were some nifty details in the setting, but a bunch of the plot depends on romance, and the characters didn't feel individual enough for the romance to be entirely satisfying.