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Who's in for this one? I am, but like with everything else, I'll be a little late.
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Yep. I'm in this one, not Ymr. Because I couldn't find it around me. Right.
Oh ... I forgot about this one, but I saw that I already bought the book, and since it's only a novella I'll certainly fit it in.
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I absolutely loved this. I hope he takes these characters and puts them in a full length novel.
Oh, yeah. This too... yeah, sure. It's been awaiting in the Library already.
Read and loved it.
I read the first few pages and I'm in love with the atmosphere, the world, the language. I only wish I could hear this read to me by Robin Miles or someone else with an amazing voice and accent.
I'm about half way in and, wow!!!, it is just so good.
Just finished...I am not sure I like it or not but there are interesting ideas.
I can't do a New Orleans / Caribbean accent in my head, so I didn't get the full amazing experience without audio, but I did love the creole parts, and wish there'd been more of it.I'm super excited to dive into his Cairo now (A Dead Djinn in Cairo), but I'm going to wait until the next one (The Haunting of Tram Car 015) is out in February.
This was a nice read. I loved that nearly all of the main protagonists were female. The mystic world, that so easily mixes with our "real" one in those kind of stories is something I enjoy reading about.
I enjoyed this a lot, and I thought the world-building, the alternate history especially, was really fascinating. Clark has a great blog post about his influences and choices here.
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I wish the plot had been as quirky as the setting though!
Megan, thank you for the link! Very cool!
Arg, I hope I like it too! Right now I can’t get into it. I read one or two pages a day and then have to re-read cos I just can’t focus on what’s going on. Maybe it’s because The Sparrow is still rummaging around in my mind haha. Anyway I hope this weekend I’ll have more time to immerse myself so I can get into it :D
Dawn wrote: "Arg, I hope I like it too! Right now I can’t get into it. I read one or two pages a day and then have to re-read cos I just can’t focus on what’s going on. Maybe it’s because The Sparrow is still r..."I understand. I have the same feeling for other books:)
I finally finished this. I read about half back in November, and really liked it, but then things got busy and I had 0 time to eye-read. Finished the second half yesterday. I'm pretty much with everyone else: great world building, lots of fun, excited to see what P. Djèlí Clark does next.
Read this yesterday. I like the idea, spunky girl in steampunk alternate-universe Free New Orleans, post Civil-War. I like the idea better than I liked the reality; I think I can explain why.
- written all present tense > reading it is exhausting
- The goddess Oya within Creeper/Jacqueline - I can't believe in it, I don't like that she (or the airship captain) have a god in their heads...
I just ran across an article explaining "Godpunk." Gods meddling with human affairs? Maybe I dislike Godpunk.
I did like the concept of the African gods mingling with Caribbean ("indigenous") ones and explaining hurricanes.
I'll still read his other stuff.
Read this some time ago. I wish he would make this a series guess I like “godpunk”
The Black God's Drums is on their list: A Beginner's Guide to Godpunk
www.bookriot.com/godpunk/
Lord of Light isn't on the list, didn't that have meddling gods? and I didn't like that either.
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