From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   Navola. Paolo Bacigalupi.   
      
   I loved his short stories, The Wind Up Girl and especially The Water   
   Knife but I am a third of the way through Navola and am disppointed. In   
   a standard fantasy setting, the world's richest craftiest banker's son   
   is being prepared to take over. He has an adopted sister whose family   
   was destroyed by his father whose prize possession is an apparently   
   malevolent dragon's eye which contains the dragon's soul. Anyone see   
   where this might go? I don't care and will read no further unless   
   someone advises that there will be a dramatic about turn, that there is   
   an increase from snail pace.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)