Re: Hamilton's _The Dreaming Void_

"Sea Wasp" <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:
>> Bitstring <ooha14hmmj9neq6s8vb3qcsoauv7qeppkv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, from the 
>> wonderful person David T. Bilek <davidbilek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Peter Hamilton's THE DREAMING VOID: 650 pages of words strung together
>>> in mostly readable sentences and mostly spelled correctly, now
>>> available at a bookstore near year.
>>
>>
>> So did you manage to sleep through the ~5000 pages of _The Neutronium 
>> Alchemist_ etc? The UK (3 volume) versions are the only books I've had 
>> which are a) too thick to hold comfortably, and b) are shedding pages, 
>> having exceeded the MMPB bookbinder's art.
>>
>
> There's a reason it was 6 books over here.
>
> I rather enjoyed that series.
>
Me too, but a lot of it I read on autopilot... skimming for the
interesting 
ideas and significant plot developments.
I thought the series had some nice ideas in it.