5th July, 2007
Dammit, I’m getting old.
I told some kids to get off my lawn yesterday. For real.
To be more precise, I told them they weren’t allowed to bring their 100 pound dog into the yard when my daughter was out. They promptly ignored me, hence their resulting ejection from the pastoral expanse that is the Gogyard.
Damn kids these days.
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5th July, 2007
Horizon Storms
Horizon Storms by Kevin J. Anderson. The third book in the Saga of the Seven Suns.
The book starts out with a recap of what has happened in the first two books of the series. This is a good thing as 1) it had been a while since I had last read book 2 and details, hell, even sub-plots, can easily be forgotten and 2) this is a broad-ranging space opera oftentimes with 10 or 15 stories progressing at the same time. Briefly, humanity has charged forth, experimenting with unknown alien technology and accidentally destroys an entire planet full of (now hostile) aliens. Oh, snap. Throw in plenty of deception, aggression and mystery, a handful of other races and sentient robots and lots of ancient history amongst the aliens and you’ve got yourself a story.
This book didn’t really grab me as the 1st book in this series (and, to a lesser extent, the 2nd book) did. I felt myself pushing forward to simply finish the book, not because I was terribly interested in what happened within, but just to get it over with. This book would benefit greatly from a Cliff’s Notes edition.
Another problem with so many stories occurring in parallel, some of the chapters were short. Really short. Only two or three pages short. I think one of the reasons I wasn’t into the book as much was due to these short-ass chapters. There wasn’t enough wordspace per time segment to build up the atmosphere and capture your attention.
I probably won’t be picking up the 4th volume in the series anytime soon.
2.5/5 gogs.
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