I'm familiar with the Arawn myth from the Prydain series, is this the same guy?
I think it's a different guy.
I'm familiar with the Arawn myth from the Prydain series, is this the same guy?
Also, I saw this is coming April 7th from the incomparable James Smythe ...
Long Dark Dusk by James Smythe
Generation ship, Batman, and Mad Max? Those are like three of my favorite things rolled into one! I am so there. But I'm confused - the book coming out in a week in the US Amazon is a sequel to a book that's not available in the US Amazon yet? Hmm :/
EDIT: NVM, I just remembered I saw it on Goodreads, not Amazon.
I read the first story last night and it made me chuckle throughout, so that's a good sign.
I gave the old girl a chance
She grabbed me and we started to dance
She stepped on my left foot
And then on my right
With that I grimaced and said "Good night!"
I do hope you like it, most people do. Do you recommend another book of hers?
As for her other books, I've only read a few of the Downbelow Station ones, which were good, but besada was hyping the Foreigner series in here a short while ago, and I'll probably be reading those before I give Cyteen another go...
The first two worked well for me, but by the time I got to the third, it was just so slow. Long, long sections of the book where very little happens other than courtly politics. I mean, I like political books, but this was just beyond the pale. I think Cyan bailed out earlier than I did.
So, if you read the first one and feel like it's too slow? Probably stop there. But different people have different tolerances for glacial paces, and the actual story is pretty interesting. It's told on a big scale, where the books cover years of changes as they ripple out into an alien society. The aliens are incredibly well rendered as a species with their own foibles and strengths.
It's just sooooo slooooooow.
I hope you love Emma, but if you don't, I *really* hope it doesn't put you off from reading Northanger Abbey, which is hilarious and wonderful.
That's the edition I have, I love that cover.I hope you're wrong about Cyteen, I've liked her other stuff
The first two worked well for me, but by the time I got to the third, it was just so slow. Long, long sections of the book where very little happens other than courtly politics. I mean, I like political books, but this was just beyond the pale. I think Cyan bailed out earlier than I did.
lol. Embarrassingly, I've remembered that several years ago I read the first few pages of Cyteen and thenabandoned ittemporarily put it aside. You got further than I did, anyway! As for her other books, I've only read a few of the Downbelow Station ones, which were good, but besada was hyping the Foreigner series in here a short while ago, and I'll probably be reading those before I give Cyteen another go...
Wasn't another book supposed to be coming in March? Or am I thinking of March 2017? I need to know more about our intrepid Explorer!Yup. Those three. Also some Alien/s. (But not the Aliens. More Ripley.) Amazon will probably do import copies until the US ones hit. But for the US: the first is in October, then the second and third coming six months apart, in 2017.
Hes a blogger. He messaged me to say that t would have been more if I hadn't done a story thing I did that he didn't like. Nothing to do with the quality; just, he didn't like a thematic thing. What can you do? Reviews are going to review.Wasn't another book supposed to be coming in March? Or am I thinking of March 2017? I need to know more about our intrepid Explorer!
And it sucks some just went ahead and gave you a 3* rating on goodreads for a book that's barely out. Sheesh.
Well, I just finished Volume I earlier today, and am a handful of chapters into the second. I am really enjoying it, moreso I would say than when I read Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion before. I think that's partially me - I simply wasn't reading slowly enough or with the care that one should read Jane. She opens up enormously when you take your time and pay attention to the subtext of character interactions and how much it communicates about the characters without explicitly saying it. Granted, one could say that about most any fiction writing of literary value, but I think it is particularly true with Austen and her ability to represent interior states with limited explicit narration of those states.
When I read Pride and Prejudice, I largely missed out on this aspect because I read an annotated edition which had the unhappy effect of taking away this experience. Probably a mistake! When I read Persuasion, I think I was just being lazy - going through the motions of reading without doing the work.
At any rate, Emma is fantastic fun and I am looking forward to future excursions into Austen now that I spent two books being kind of dumb.
Have you ever read Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa? I would rather read Taiko again than Cyteen once. It's epic, it's deep, it's political, it's intriguing, and it makes a great pillow/weapon if you take the bus or subway or tram or metro or tube or double decker or....
I'd be happy to write an early review for you, maybe get a book blurb on the back! :lolHes a blogger. He messaged me to say that t would have been more if I hadn't done a story thing I did that he didn't like. Nothing to do with the quality; just, he didn't like a thematic thing. What can you do? Reviews are going to review.
As for The Explorer... It's going to be a couple of years, I'm afraid. I wish it was sooner - book 3 is written! - but publishers etc.
Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga Book 1) by Peter F Hamilton is on the Kindle daily deal. Haven't heard of this but the blurb sounds promising. Anyone read this and can recommend/warn me off it?
I read it. I know there are mixed opinions on this one, but to me this was one of Hamilton's weaker books. It is overlong. There are parts that positively drag on, especially when he's off on what feels like a tangent with a character I wasn't interested in. I still have the 2nd book around here somewhere, but it's not even on my list of things to read.
Thanks, been waiting to give these a shotPSA: JK Rowling's first two Cormoran Strike books on sale today:
http://smile.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_170810_188485430_pe_button/?node=7533915011
Very good stories, a steal at that price.
PSA: JK Rowling's first two Cormoran Strike books on sale today:
http://smile.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_170810_188485430_pe_button/?node=7533915011
Very good stories, a steal at that price.
I'm familiar with the Arawn myth from the Prydain series, is this the same guy?