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I'm in. How about a start date for the beginning of March?
Sounds good. we can do the same format we did last time. shoot from the hip and try not to leave the others behind.
You friggin a-holes always leave me behind! :-( I didn't even know you started a thread, Yammy! That's what I get for only dragging the laptop out once a week or so...
Hey now, I resemble that remark! When can you catch up, T?
You know I was teasing! ;-) BWAHAHA!!! You know we thrive on drama here, right? Are you guys reading it now??? I already said *sighs and rolls eyes* in another thread that I can't start 'til March. Of course that's only a couple days away now, but it'll gimme time to finish the 2 I'm trudging through now...***DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this post is meant to offend. It is for entertainment purposes only! :-)***
~Teresa~
lol yeah we're starting in march. i haven't even cracked it open yet.
Just so everyone knows we're reading this now. So far I'm not very happy about the change in tone/shift from POV as opposed to the first and second one.Anyone else noticing this? is it distracting or bothersome?
I must confess...I don't have this title yet, and I'm soooo burnt out on the military thing. I made a commitment to finish, so I will, but it may be a couple days 'til I can buy it (during which time I'm sure you guys will have finished it :-( ). Anyways, I'm gonna check & see if the library has it...if they do, I'll run over and get it. If not, I'll probably feel guilty and buy it later even though I REALLY need to read the books I've already bought. Oh lordy! I'm in over my head...
Yammy wrote: "Just so everyone knows we're reading this now. So far I'm not very happy about the change in tone/shift from POV as opposed to the first and second one.Anyone else noticing this? is it distractin..."
It took me a while to get used to it but I did. I liked the new characters introduced - and there was no way to follow new characters separate stories through Kill's journal entries - so I gave it a couple of chapters and I forgot about it. Also it does switch back into the journal entry format more later in the book when telling Kill's story.
Teresa wrote: "I must confess...I don't have this title yet, and I'm soooo burnt out on the military thing. I made a commitment to finish, so I will, but it may be a couple days 'til I can buy it (during which ti..."Teresa you may not even want to bother with this one. If you thought the last two were military centric this one will bore you to tears. The military terms etc are about twice what they were in the previous books. I love it but I know it gets old for some readers.
Bummer, Thia...but thanks for the warning. I've been listening to a large portion of the books and the military detachment in the narrator's voice is just too much at times. I wanna shake him and say "Tell us how you really feel!!!! NOT just what is important to posterity!!!" I want to know Tara better, and Dean, and everyone else. I guess the military thing just isn't my bag. But I don't wanna give up 2 books in to a trilogy, ya know? Still...too many books, too little time. I wanna read stuff I KNOW I'll enjoy. I may pop in here and there (my library DOESN'T have it, so I need to thing about whether I wanna spend another $20 on the series...
I'm really not feeling this one yet. it hasn't switched us back to Kill yet and the military aspect is getting to be a little much..the tone has changed so much that it is a little jarring. am i reading a Tom Clancy book now all of a sudden? with the special forces missions and multiple locations, things are feeling rushed and details are lacking. he's cramming too much story into one book.
none of this would bother me so much if i didn't just read the first two books back-to-back but since i did, well, this just feels like too much of a change.
is it a bad book? no. it is it as good as the first one? eh... not so much.
Since I'd only read this book once, I went ahead and read it again. I pretty much agree with Yammy. It's not a bad book but I much preferred the first two written from his perspective. I didn't care for the parts with District Six* much at all really. Well, except that last bit, which I won't spoiler.*I don't think that's their name but I was too lazy to look it up. I knew it was closer to it than Project Six, which kind of gives the impression that Tim Gunn would be involved, encouraging them to make it work.
Remote Six = the lamest part of this book.
*sigh* even though we returned to Kil at the end, it just wasn't enough for me.it was like a Tom Clancy military porn novel... with zombies. he tried to do a lot with this book (cram too much info into one book) and it just didn't work.
having been such a fan of the first two, I was really let down by this one. don't get me wrong, the action scenes were great and all but i didn't really connect with anybody so i couldn't care less.
the somewhat conspiracy aspect was silly to me as well.
i won't be reading the next book.
I'd still read the next one but I really hope it will feature a return to the old format--or, if he wants to stick with the new one, that the other perspectives concentrate more on the Hotel 23 gang and not so much the military guys.I did like some of the military characters, like the guys who went on the island (although I thought it was a stupid mission). I wasn't overly invested with them like I was with our original core group of characters though.
If he wants to get away from the journal format, I wouldn't mind seeing more from John's perspective. That could be interesting. I'd also like to see more of Dean. I think she's an interesting character and I'd like to see her utilized more.
The military guys and teams overshadowed the original group I came to love. That's what irks me about this book. It's like he wanted to cram additional plot lines where they weren't needed.
nevermind my fanboy rage. I just expected better. I know I'm the minority and most people think this is awesome I'm just not one of them. Different onions and all.
I totally understand, Yammy. I really liked the first two books and had really been looking forward to this one coming out. While I didn't hate it or anything, I was disappointed. I would have much preferred him to concentrate the story on our Hotel 23 group. Instead, in this book, they're almost an afterthought.I do think he's a good author and I hope he'll continue the story--but with the focus back on the characters we're really interested in. New characters are fine but they shouldn't turn our "real" characters into mere backstory.
Is everyone finished with book 3? I ask because I would like to talk about it but don't want to spoil any thing.
Military porn, different onions...I missed you guys. I just don't know if I can enjoy onions in my porn soup. Mike, talk away. Teresa still needs to catch up, as do I ... I haven't started the book yet, but will today. Don't worry about spoilers....spoiler-free readers should stay out of this thread, since there's no reading schedule for this book, just a shoot-from-the-hip discussion.
I don't know how to do the thing to hide spoilers so I'll just try to keep it vague. To be honest, Mike, I never did really grasp what that whole thing was supposed to be. I didn't really care that much so I didn't try too hard to figure it out. Your explanation makes as much sense as any and certainly more than I was able to guess at.
Personally, I wish he'd just avoided that whole part and sent them into China after a vaccine or something like that, rather than trying to come up with some explanation--especially that one.
I know some people really like to know what caused the whole zombie uprising. I'm in the group that doesn't really much care and would rather read about how they're dealing with it.
Mike wrote: "Is this right? [spoilers removed]"The whole ending confused the crap out of me. (view spoiler)
randy has that saying about the Titanic that really fits this.the point is, the cause of the outbreak shouldn't matter but the author tried so hard to make it matter.
right now I'm on page 100 of this book. that's great
