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!



It figures!@@ john smith's anthem is let the good times troll!!



What's YOUR troll anthem, then?





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None!

Trlooing!! trolling !! trolling!! john smith keeps on trolling!!
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