Rusty's comments
Rusty's comments from the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club group.
Note: Rusty is no longer a member of this group.
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I think part of it is that the writer really has no idea how to write for characters with religious ideals, be they extreme or no.
I'm about half-way through, and so far my impression is that it's so/so. It seems to me that the author is dealing with issues that are beyond his grasp, and the character development isn't great. But maybe I'm being too critical.....
I really liked this book. I thought the dragon/aerial corps mythos Novik set out here was very interesting.
"Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom" - now that was a stinker. It did have the decency to be short, though.
I'm only 1/3 through the book, but I don't anticipate reading the rest of them.
Bunny, for some reason my mind always forgets to file "The Great Train Robbery" under Michael Crichton, but that was a great book. Very interesting.
He was a talented and intelligent writer. And he entertained a lot of people.
I will definitely read the rest of the series. I think Angie has a good strategy - read one as a short respite after a book that is particularly challenging.
I just finished reading, and I enjoyed it. It was a new idea, and a nice, quick read, which was a good break after reading "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" which was a bit slow, and dry for me, although very interesting.
I liked Harry and the little twists on supernatural mythos. I'll probably read the next book
I’m just not as knowledgeable about these genres, especially sci-fi (I had never even heard of cyberpunk or steampunk until a couple of months ago), so I just tend to read and learn from you guys. I do enjoy this club, though, and I’ve liked most of the books we’ve read.
I’ll try to be more vocal.
It didn’t really appeal to me. It was my first exposure to cyberpunk, so maybe that’s just not my genre. I may be the only one, but I’m not remotely interested in Disney World, so that could have something to do with it as well. There were some interesting elements, but I never really got into it.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked World War Z, but (despite the fact that it revolves around zombies) there is very little about it that is actually horror, in my opinion.
The Years of Salt and Rice.
This probably happens a lot, but I would say his humor is like that of a subtle Douglas Adams. I like it.
I still don’t get why the Sci-Fi channel is cancelling BSG. It’s not often that anything they show gets critical (and/or public) acclaim, - you’d think they would want to bask in that for a while.
I’m a concrete thinker – so for me each star represents 20%, as though I’m grading the quality of the book, I guess. Although I won’t give a book the full five stars unless I feel it merits at least a 95%. Why do I do this – I don’t know.
Watching a show on DVD is great. Six months ago, I hadn’t seen a single episode of Battlestar Galactica. Now I’ve seen them all, except the current season, which of course, I will have to watch on DVD. Too bad it’s over.
Well, I've been thinking about it for a while, and you guys (well, guy and ladies) just pushed me over the edge. I just put the first season of Eureka in my Blockbuster queue.
I finished DADOES, and The Color of Magic, so now I’m reading “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”, by Stephen King, “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, by Bill Bryson, “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, by Thomas Cahill, and book, about Stephen Hawking. I can’t remember the author of that one. Most of them are being neglected at the moment for “The Girl…”, They’re all pretty interesting, although the Bryson book is hard to get in to.
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