XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis
From: Taemon@zonnet.nl
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Taemon wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Dirk Thierbach wrote:
>>>> Taemon wrote:
>>>>> I think I already recommended Neal Asher to you.
>>>> I think you didn't, but I do like Neal Asher a lot.
>>> That was me. On Taemon's recommendation I got all the Asher & K.J.
>>> Parker books I could get my hands on.
>> Heh. You like them?
> I'll read Asher any time, and if I can come across /Shadow/ I'll try
> more Parker, but /The Engineer/ got boring. Parker maybe needs
> better editing.
You might have a point there. I once found part two of the Engineer in a
second hand store so now I'm waiting until I find part one. Scavenger...
well, enough said about Scavenger.
>>> Skip the books of /The True Game/ (I think that's what she called
>>> it). Very juvenile.
>> Yes, but I don't think that makes them bad. I liked the different
>> talents and what it did to people very much.
> No, they're not bad. I just don't think they're the best
> introduction to her talent.
I agree.
> Yes, she's read /The Wasp Factory/. I just didn't bother. I'm not
> really sure, other than the names, what it was that didn't work for
> me with Banks, but I was always comparing bits of him to other
> writers and coming up short.
That happens. I have that with Ursula LeGuin. I read "The ones that walk
away from Omelas" to my beloved today, who responded with "Well. What do you
say to that?" I guess that's about correct.
>> Hey, lurker? Go read Monika Felten's Elven fire. It has won two
>> prizes so it must be good.
> Naughty...
I'm still not over that. I hope the publisher balks at my judgement so I can
give more examples of what is wrong with that book.
T.
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