Re: Hope for Yads?

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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? ;-)


Not much!

In hopes of prolonging the savouring of having a new Harry Dresden available, I've started the first book of Simon Green's "Nightside" this evening.

Yesterday I reread hunks of Ilona Andrews third in her Atlanta magic series, Magic Strikes, and then read Pride by Rachel Vincent (also third in a series, actually).

What are you reading?



Boring stuff for research at the mo - including manuals on kickboxing and martial arts so I can invent some futuristic sports slang for this very gory "kickboxing on ice" story I'm doing! - but also Marina Warner's new book "Phantasmagoria" which you might like. (She's a cultural historian and this book looks at how beliefs in the supernatural and ideas of the self and the soul, etc. are still as alive as ever in our modern post-Enlightenment age.)

Ahhh... but lined up for fun I have two new Ramsey Campbell books, "Thieving Fear" and "The Grin of the Dark";a new urban UK horror anthology called "Phobic", which had an interesting blurb ("Where does fear lurk in 21st century life?"); a collection of Kim Newman (he of "Anno Dracula" fame?) stories called "The Man from the Diogenes Club" which I mainly bought for its groovy '60s psychedelia cover and - hey! - an urban fantasy but I've forgot what it's called!

Let the good times (t)roll!



Speaking of research, I woke up this morning with a start realizing I need to do some. Oops!

kickboxing on ice sounds fascinating... that's gotta be something.
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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. ... Boring stuff for research at the mo - including manuals on kickboxing and martial arts so I can invent some futuristic sports slang for this very gory "kickboxing on ice" story I'm doing! ... That urban fantasy book I mentioned... ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... recommendation, I'll start a thread on it in the next day or so ... Hey, thanks! ... I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid ... Boring stuff for research at the mo - including manuals on kickboxing ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... recommendation, I'll start a thread on it in the next day or ... Hey, thanks! ... I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid ... Usually if I can't care about the person, ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • 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)