Re: Hope for Yads?


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john smith wrote:
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BTW, I've finished a Paul McAuley based on your recommendation, I'll
start a thread on it in the next day or so just to babble.

Hey, thanks! I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid
attention to anything I've ever said. And on the internet too! Did
you like it?
ROFL - it is not! I bought your own work from a link you gave me
months ago.

I picked up The Secret of Life from the library. It wasn't the exact
McAuley you'd recommended at first, but I did run it past you before I
read it. It was... I've thought about it a lot since I read it - even
while I read it, trying to be appropriately descriptive. Start with it
was good. Really good.

But. In an odd way it was like male oriented porn. Never mind the
people, just get on with the action. The action itself was riveting,
and I hated when I had to put the book down. I found myself reading at
stoplights because I was that sucked into the story.

But the people? I found the character baffling, because she'd just do
stuff that was stupid or self destructive, and I didn't know why. We
didn't live in her head enough for me to understand it. I didn't at any
point in the story care about any person in it.

But then damn, the story was still great.

I found it a little disconcerting, because usually I read for the
characterization. Usually if I can't care about the person, I don't
bother with the book. This story took everything I care about, tossed
it away, and kept me anyway.




Haven't read that one - maybe it's newly-published? - but I'll look out
for it. Glad you liked him though! "Fairyland" is just brilliant...

I will look for it, thank you.

I've been wrapped up in reading sequels lately. Seems all of my
favorite series brought out the latest edition in the last month. I'm
trying to pace them out, but that's not always successful.




Got a few cool-sounding genre novels lined up myself! There's nothing
better than pigging out on a great big chunk of someone else's imagnation,
is there? ;-)


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  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... Hey, thanks! ... I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid attention to anything I've ever said. ... I found the character baffling, because she'd just do stuff that was stupid or self destructive, and I didn't know why. ... Usually if I can't care about the person, I don't bother with the book. ...
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  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid ... didn't at any point in the story care about any person in it. ... I've been wrapped up in reading sequels lately. ... gory "kickboxing on ice" story I'm doing! ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid ... at any point in the story care about any person in it. ... I've been wrapped up in reading sequels lately. ... "kickboxing on ice" story I'm doing! ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
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