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I'm 100% with you. Having read Pandora/Judas and now being 2/3 of the way through the Night's Dawn (Alchemist) series I can't imagine skimming through anything. It's what makes Hamilton's stuff so incredible; this guy is practically writing love-letters to the genre and the real meat IS the details. If you're really not loving it and you start wanting to just skip chapters and pages, just put the book down - this isn't a book about the ending, it's about everything between the beginning and the end and, frankly, if you're not planning to read Judas Unchained you're probably going to be disappointed anyway.
Sorry, C.J. Cherryh does wonderful world building but if Pandora's Star is proof of anything it's that Hamilton merely does minutia without it ever becoming wonderful.
Spoilter!!!
Add to that that that twice in the book I was forced to say to myself how dumb is that to major plot elements: First off: the trial. Supposedly YEARS after a murder they can determine that a decomposed body wasn't tortured in any way? Really? Uh no. the pretense does not hold up to the least examination.
Secondly, the Second Chance's abandonment of 2 members of their crew to be seized and turn over the wormhole tech, localization of the commonwealth!?!? For a civilization that makes it fairly trivial to spin up a new clone and download all but the most recent memories?!?!? Hamilton clearly didn't think through what having that tech would mean because any captain forced to abandon members of their crew to such an aggressive alien civilization would have vaporized the crew they couldn't pick up before jumping out.
I may move on to the next book because the plot does seem _at last_ to be moving along but clearly Hamilton lost any chance of me picking up any of his other books with howlers like these.
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May 14, 2013 01:57PM
I'm 100% with you. Having read Pandora/Judas and now being 2/3 of the way through the Night's Dawn (Alchemist) series I can't imagine skimming through anything. It's what makes Hamilton's stuff so incredible; this guy is practically writing love-letters to the genre and the real meat IS the details. If you're really not loving it and you start wanting to just skip chapters and pages, just put the book down - this isn't a book about the ending, it's about everything between the beginning and the end and, frankly, if you're not planning to read Judas Unchained you're probably going to be disappointed anyway.
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Sorry, C.J. Cherryh does wonderful world building but if Pandora's Star is proof of anything it's that Hamilton merely does minutia without it ever becoming wonderful.Spoilter!!!
Add to that that that twice in the book I was forced to say to myself how dumb is that to major plot elements: First off: the trial. Supposedly YEARS after a murder they can determine that a decomposed body wasn't tortured in any way? Really? Uh no. the pretense does not hold up to the least examination.
Secondly, the Second Chance's abandonment of 2 members of their crew to be seized and turn over the wormhole tech, localization of the commonwealth!?!? For a civilization that makes it fairly trivial to spin up a new clone and download all but the most recent memories?!?!? Hamilton clearly didn't think through what having that tech would mean because any captain forced to abandon members of their crew to such an aggressive alien civilization would have vaporized the crew they couldn't pick up before jumping out.
I may move on to the next book because the plot does seem _at last_ to be moving along but clearly Hamilton lost any chance of me picking up any of his other books with howlers like these.
