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Quote from: andygates on 11 December, 2009, 07:29:21 pmKim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. If there's an epiphany in a hot tub, I'm going to get shirty.heh heh -not that I can recall, but I can't say that it's either his strongest or most memorable book.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. If there's an epiphany in a hot tub, I'm going to get shirty.
Quote from: Flying_Monkey on 12 December, 2009, 03:30:48 amQuote from: andygates on 11 December, 2009, 07:29:21 pmKim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. If there's an epiphany in a hot tub, I'm going to get shirty.heh heh -not that I can recall, but I can't say that it's either his strongest or most memorable book.Frank just had his Buddhist / sporty chick epiphany. C'mon KSR! A new trope please!
Currently readingThe Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt (David Fickling Books)It's another one I found on the shelves at work, and is a Galley Proof. But I checked, and it was actually published.It's pitched quite interestingly somewhere between teen & adult novel, and written in a storytelling style, all intimacies & teasing, intractable situations and impending menace.The setting is a bit arch, being a sort of central European gothic, with travelling shows, wolf-ridden forests, deep snows, inns filled with shady characters etc.It gets a bit implausible, but it is quite a page turner, and a well-told story. I'm a wee bit over half way through - I'll report back when I'm done.
Quote from: andygates on 15 December, 2009, 10:46:57 amQuote from: Flying_Monkey on 12 December, 2009, 03:30:48 amQuote from: andygates on 11 December, 2009, 07:29:21 pmKim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. If there's an epiphany in a hot tub, I'm going to get shirty.heh heh -not that I can recall, but I can't say that it's either his strongest or most memorable book.Frank just had his Buddhist / sporty chick epiphany. C'mon KSR! A new trope please!The Buddhist stuff works in The Years of Rice and Salt because it's part of the structure of the book - which is still his finest IMHO - he's been in a bit of down phase since then...
Re-read Use Of WeaponsBanks at his best. The anti hero, the main protaganist, they do terrible thngs, they are likable but at the same time they can be bastards.Hugely capable people but quite patently broken by past events, doomed, always doomed.
I got a new Banks book for Christmas! An Ian, rather than an Ian M but I like both.
I've just finished "The Rider" by Tim Krabbé. That's where I got my sig line.