Clarkey
It's only January 5th, but this will be one of my favourite books of the year. Wonderfully strange and a page-turner. I'm not a member of the Korean Provisional Government, but then I would say that, wouldn't I?
Excellent hard scifi space opera that has a Joy Division reference and a Fast Show joke :-)
Well, I finally read Book 1 after much nagging from daughter. I really wanted to love it - I love many people who love it!
About a third of the way through, though, I was tempted to ditch it and say that it just wasn't for me. It took ages to get going, and some of the long passages of description and past deeds (with everyone having at least threes names) seemed to go on forever. And as for the songs...
In the end though, it won me over. The good bits were really good and became more frequent in the last third. The atmosphere and the characters eventually got to me and I became more invested as it went on, pretty much from the mountains onwards.
So I'm going to have a go at Book 2 - there, I said it!
This book consists of short sentences. And short paragraphs. Sometimes these end with a joke. But often they don't.
The author wrote episodes of “The Simpsons”. But this is like reading “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. Maybe he wrote that too. Or it's like a Road-runner cartoon only with less in the way of internal logic. So while I laughed quite often I got irritated more.
That's all folks.