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That's what I was talking about as well, Richard!
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Oh, I wasn't meaning Raine so much as the others. Raine felt older because of more and harsher experiences, especially because she was emotionally flattened.
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(Quote) Agreed, 100% - I also was reminded of the Hardy series.
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(Quote) Exactly my take as well!
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Not the setting. The faux Scotland thing worked OK, but I hated the Lac clan names. That was actually the only thing that bothered me. I liked the magic, with it's trances and gates, and I liked the older Redwinter characters as well. But I really l…
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Well, it showed in as much as there was a sense that magic made sense, rare in fantasy games, but often botched about. It didn't read like a game narration to me, though. Games are most of the time incoherent unless you were there.
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Everything in this book worked for me. I haven't even liked a fantasy book since the Lies of Locke Lamorra, but this one was a joy!
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It worked thoroughly. Teens absolutely! So powerful and yet so trivial! I think he nailed it.
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I am a fan of Herodotus. I love telling stories through digression! Worked perfectly for me, but I will bet I am alone here.
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I really enjoyed it, actually! I zipped right through, so yes to all three. I just lost myself in the story and let it all play out in my head! Special effects were notable!
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I finished as well.
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No interest either way. I'll go with Theory of Bastards because it's shorter.
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Ah! I didn't notice the length of Caribbean, though I should have thought of it. That's not all that long for a Michener book. Hawaii was over 1100 pages. Caribbean's a Michener I have never read, and I have been a fan of his work since I read Hawai…
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(Quote) I am thinking two things: James Michener's Caribbean or Audrey Shulman's Theory of Bastards. Feedback appreciated!
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Nailed me! :D Thanks - I was feeling pretty alone there... But, are you sure that is correct about Barner? ;)
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To be fair, a western SF writer doesn't have to explain their projected SF culture in detail. Hints here and there go a long way, because we live in that culture and can project from known underpinnings. Would a Vietnamese person require more than w…
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I would like to take the Vietnamese space culture and viciously and rudely appropriate it for a particular world's culture. It would be interesting to explore. As for game engines, I won't bother answering that!
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On the other hand, I found the book very entertaining. I didn't assume the central relationship between a female human and a feminine gendered sapient space ship was designed to sell books to a certain community - is there a big human-spaceship sexu…
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The Orenda was a lot more brutal, and based on history. I thought the society was interesting, whether or not it was nice. It was a different slant to things. European pirates historically were far more free than the vast majority of people in Europ…
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I am having no trouble reading Red Scholar's Wake! I will definitely be participating!
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The reading was slow and tortuous for me. I had to re-read and parse each sentence carefully several times, guessing at the meanings. At the end of a paragraph I was tired, and I kept getting nasty headaches after reading a few pages. I gave it up a…
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Boughted, though Amazon at first said they had only paperback and hardcover, starting at $22... Finally went roundabout and bought it for $9.50 or so from the big A...
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Both sound excellent! No particular preference!
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I have started Riddley Walker!
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(Quote) A fair estimate, though a better writer of characters.
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(Quote) I thought it sounded interesting is all, and in the back of my mind were the Laumer books.
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I could so make this into a game. First, rule that the vast majority of worldlines get reabsorbed into each other - this accounts for the Berenstien Bears people - but those where the difference was fundamental enough remain split off. This prevents…
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The writing in the book was well done, in an action novel way. I never liked any of the characters particularly, nor did I dislike any. They were there and lots of things happened. Pretty much sums it all up.
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There was a lot of violence, yet the violence never convinced me. As Apocryphal mentions, the violence is far more brutal and real in Orenda, which I did not like for other reasons entirely, If you are going to write about violence, do it right.
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I guess we all agree here! The business model of SafeTrek was a joke, and made no sense whatsoever. I kept waiting to find out that this was some kind of cover for another operation that actually paid the bills, but that never came...