Re: Mary Gentle, ASH Re: What won't you read?

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:24:44 -0700, "Peter D. Tillman"
<tillman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Mind you, I would say that the second half of the novel dragged a bit
>> and was a bit repetitive, and could have done with a bit of excising.
>>
>
>By "second half", do you mean the last 2 (US) books, or second 1/2 of
>vol. 1?
>

That would be the last 2 US books. There's a bit of to-ing and fro-ing
which got a bit tiresome. The big fat single UK volume felt like (it
may actually have been split that way) two separate stories. I think a
single volume was too long, but 4 books seems like spreading it a
little thin.

Mark


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