Re: Reading books backwards Re: 1984

[Sonja van Baardwijk Holten]

Joshua Bell schreef:

> "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > It becomes a major hinderance in reading.  I am far behind
> > > in reading, and stuck on Blue Mars (have been for a long, long time).
>
> > _Blue Mars_ was at least 20% too long, I thought.  Good luck on it.
>
> Did anyone manage to read the followup collection "The Martians" ?

Started it. It is amazing, but it is just as boring as Blue Mars. I put it aside
for a while because I found the third part in the Otherland series (paperback
edition), just to find out there is gonne be part four as well. <sigh>
<fake Brittish accent> I'm _not_ amused.</fake Brittish accent>

Sonja <wondering how far Williams plans to stretch his Otherland series before
he'll write the last book>