22nd January, 2008
More Crap
Expanding your knowledge of middling and craptastic fiction, I read it so you don’t have to… ah, screw it. Here’s a couple more crappy books I’ve read recently.
Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
What did I like about this book? Well, I liked that it was a hair over 300 pages long. And, well, that’s about it. A crappy mystery novel with some fantasy thrown in, I was thoroughly unimpressed. Flat characters engaging in attempted overly clever dialogs, after the first few chapters, I was eagerly awaiting the end (and not because I wanted to know who the murderer was).
2/5 gogs.
The Sundering by Walter Jon Williams.
I need to stop believing that reviews on Amazon are written by sane people. From Amazon: “Superior Space Opera!”, “More Originality in a Different Space Opera”, “Solid Space Opera… This series reminds me of the space operas by Peter Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds with a slightly more manageable cast of characters…” Well, shit, guess I should have read the fine print.
I gave the first book in Williams’ Praxis series 3 gogs, but this book read like the crap that the aforementioned Hamilton can spew forth. This book really soured my feelings for the series and I’m not sure if I’ll even check out book 3. Skip it.
2/5 gogs.
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On December 22, 2009 at 10:05 GogBlog » book said:
December 22, 2009 at 10:05
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