Travis Edmunds wrote:
>
> >From: "Bryon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: Science Fiction In General
> >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:01:39 -0500
> >
> >>From: "Travis Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >>-Calculating God (Robert J Sawyer/Anyone heard of him or the book?/He has
> >>won a Nebula)
> >
> >This is sitting on my pile of to-be-read books. I thought my pile was
> >large, with about 40 or so sitting on the shelf, but it's dwarfed by
> >Julia's pile. (Julia - where do you store all of them?)
>
> Well, I have it read (past-tense) now. It was a really neat book. Yes I
> think that's the appropriate word "neat". I don't think Sawyer is a great
> writer, although he is very fast paced (in a good way), and very intelligent
> in the little things transferred from his head to paper. However his
> abilities as a great storyteller who envelopes one into his/her fictional
> world is certainly lacking. But the best thing about the book and Sawyer
> himself I suppose, is the originality and bold ideas put forward. Like I
> said, NEAT.
Neat. His endings, at least the ones I've read so far, are neat -- in
the tidy sense. A little too tidy, if you ask me. I really enjoy his
books up to the last 3 pages or so, and then I get a little annoyed
about the ending. :)
Julia
I would have appreciated the endings a lot more 10 years ago
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