On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 04:56:06 -0800 (PST), ChrisC
<chrispche@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>American Gods By Neil Gaiman.
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>Never ever read any of his books before. So not sure what to expect.
>Based on Amazon reviews it seems like it could be good.
Just starting on Charlie's _The Merchants' War_.
The Merchant Princes series is great but I thought the third one was a
bit of a weak link by comparison to the rip-roaring first two. One
thing an author should probably keep in mind is that if the
protagonist is feeling extremely ineffectual and out of the loop and
is bored out of his or her skull by the monotony, we're probably going
to be bored by the monotony of reading about them being out of the
loop and ineffectual. Wanted to see Miriam run her company and such
not sit around wi****ng she could do so.
I had the same problem with that Cherryh novel a couple years back
where the protagonist rode back and forth through the same ****ing
piece of empty desert over and over for the whole book.
-David
