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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • Sharpen your knives because I’m examining Slow Fall to Dawn, a space opera by Stephen Leigh.
    You can find my written analysis and reviews, including several articles about Dune, here: hubpages.com/@...
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    © 2023 Seth Tomko

Комментарии • 14

  • @paulbigbee
    @paulbigbee 3 месяца назад +1

    I’m very appreciative of your calm and deliberate view. If you have to err in a direction, I’d rather have more objective criticism than less. At the very least, it’s always thought-provoking in contrast to my experience of a novel!

    • @PeculiarNotions
      @PeculiarNotions  3 месяца назад +1

      You're welcome, Paul. I just did my best to explain why this novel didn't work for me.

  • @Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales
    @Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales 3 месяца назад +1

    I have not read this, and I probably won't. Thank you for the honest review. I think we might have similar tastes for space opera. I have A Memory Called Enpire on my TBR shelf but have not had a chance to get to it.

    • @PeculiarNotions
      @PeculiarNotions  3 месяца назад +2

      You're welcome, Tim. If you read A Memory called Empire, I hope you enjoy it. I know I did not, and that's putting it mildly.

    • @Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales
      @Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales 3 месяца назад +1

      @@PeculiarNotions didn't it win a Hugo? Now I'm nervous.

    • @PeculiarNotions
      @PeculiarNotions  3 месяца назад +1

      @@Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales A lot of other people like it, but it just wasn't to my tastes. I'm also skeptical of a lot of titles that win awards, but again that's more about my mindset than anything else.

  • @WatchOutForSnakes
    @WatchOutForSnakes 3 месяца назад +1

    Sounds like it was a slog. Appreciate that you're weeding stuff like this out so that it doesn't make my reading lists!

    • @PeculiarNotions
      @PeculiarNotions  3 месяца назад

      No problem. The book is only about 200 pages, but sometimes it felt much longer. I'll at least give it credit for not running to an obscene page count.

  • @GrammaticusBooks
    @GrammaticusBooks 2 месяца назад +1

    Sorry to hear this one fell short. Better luck on the next one!

    • @PeculiarNotions
      @PeculiarNotions  2 месяца назад +1

      Even in its early goings Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword is holding my interest.

    • @GrammaticusBooks
      @GrammaticusBooks 2 месяца назад +1

      @@PeculiarNotions That's a great book PN, looking forward to your review (I do recommend the original vs the later edited version)

    • @PeculiarNotions
      @PeculiarNotions  2 месяца назад

      @@GrammaticusBooks Too late, Grammaticus. I'm reading the 1971 edition because it's the one I have, and Anderson's forward suggests he preferred his later edit for having less linguistic artifice to it. I hope you're still looking forward to the review all the same.

  • @booksmitin
    @booksmitin 3 месяца назад +1

    Bummer that this wasn't a great read, but I always appreciate your criticisms. I don't think you're too critical at all.