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Re: Nice. rebelaessedai Send a noteboard - 02/01/2010 08:15:10 PM

What did you read? Consider Phlebas is the first one, but I think the second one, The Player of Games, is the one that makes people want to read all of them.

I actually read The Player of Games. :P
By the way, if I were reading them all again, I'd give Inversions a miss. It's set entirely on a "primitive" world (equivalent to our Medieval age). But you might like it if you don't insist on having spaceships etc. in your Sci-Fi books.

LOL! So is it more fantasy-like, or more a medieval fiction kind of deal?


Well, I should correct myself. It begins in medias res with some action as a very effective hook. Then there's a lot of backstory, which is generally fine but a bit draggy in places. But the hook at the beginning is enough to get you through the draggy bits. Then it gets more exciting, and more exciting, and more exciting, and all the time you think it can't get any more exciting, and then it does, and then it springs you the biggest surprise ever, and then it keeps getting more exciting.

Well, that sounds awesome, I have to admit. I'm definitely adding it to my list of books "to look at." (I have so many books I hear of that are great, I have a list of those that I pare down to my wishlist- it's awful.)


I totally fail to understand how anyone can dislike Good Omens. Sorry...

Huh. I just didn't get the point. It's one reason I haven't picked up a single Pratchett novel. If all his humor is like that... I'm probably not interested. :disapprove:





It's the end of the Laurie-and-Jon-on-Mars bit. And I love Rorschach as a character. But the film ruined it by not making the bad guy look like a good guy until near the end – he was just a bad guy all along. Which defeated the whole point.

Hmm... I didn't see him as a bad guy in the movie, which is what I saw before reading the book. And I did remember the right moment for that quote too!


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