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Rants and Favs
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Greg Bear's Queen of Angels
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The title was so good. The premise was so good. But even Yoda was easier to understand. I like my stories tight, fast and powerful. I don't want essays for PhDs.
Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
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It was a decend sci- fi. I myself would have preferred more action and less agonizing We don't have this book - I used the PRL request to get it.
Fern Michaels
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Started reading her again. In the Weekend Warriors series I raced through the 2nd to the 5th book. They "did" keep me up reading into the wee hours. But -- a little goes a long ways. Now I need to find another author with good reads - fun reads, not good - for- me-reads.
Rain Gods vs Scarpetta
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Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell - good, made me stay up late reading
Rain Gods by James Lee Burke - did not make me keep reading. Has a cool cover picture.
arrgh
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Found (The Missing, Book 1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
It happened again. I am reading a real page turner. But around page 150 I know I'm going to be disappointed. Yup, this whole 300+ page book is just a teaser. I have to get the next novel in the series (and probably the next and next) to get to the ending.
Arrgh - what happened to stand alone books? I know, two or three more books are two or three times more bucks
How can I recommend, to a 6th or 7th grader, a book that is more than half filler and doesn't really end? A book with details repeated 5 or 6 times, a plot that trudges, and some of our favorite characters standing around, wringing their hands and saying, "Oh, should I do this?" That kid may not ever believe my recommendations again. That hurts.
Because is was a good book, I will recommend it and its sucessors - with the warning to read fast, skim lots and expect the basic plot being repeated over and over - as if we can't remember anything from ten pages before. (Have you noticed TV doing that - telling/showing you after the commercial exactly what they showed 2.5 minutes prior.)
I remember being told by someone that the reason the Jean Aurl books were so long was because she didn't have an editior. An editor who would tighten up or remove what doesn't move the story forward.
A famous book, Nightfall, started out as a very consise short story. It made an exceptional novel. At 150 pages. A whole story: a beginning, a middle and an end. Wow, what a concept - how unusual. (I am being sarcastic here).
P.S. And, yes, I do know that I need an editior for myself.
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