Re: Hope for Yads?

On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:32:52 +0100, "Munty TheMuntDregger"
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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!

<groan>

Troll Out The Barrel...
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  • 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?
    ... Hey, thanks! ... I think that's the first time anyone's ever paid attention to anything I've ever said. ... Usually if I can't care about the person, I don't bother with the book. ... 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! ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... recommendation, I'll start a thread on it in the next day or so ... Hey, thanks! ... Usually if I can't care about the person, ... I've been wrapped up in reading sequels lately. ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • 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. ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Hope for Yads?
    ... recommendation, I'll start a thread on it in the next day or ... Hey, thanks! ... Usually if I can't care about the person, ... Commander UPSD Expeditionary Forces ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)