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So...as mentioned above, I finished Blockade Billy by King and didn't think a whole lot of it. It might have made for an okay teleplay for a modern horror anthology show (oh why cant' we have one of these, please?), but in text form, it was too contrived.
However, I did also finish "The Losing Role" by none other than MR's Steve Anderson and I thought it was excellent. I gave it a quickie review on Smashwords. I thought it was a very good character study, with just enough use of setting to make me understand the world without getting bogged down in the details.
Anyone got a recommendation for which of his books to read next?
Currently kinda slogging my way through the book club book Sheepfarmer's Daughter. So many unneeded sections about the minutia of being in the military and the fact that our main character keeps getting magically saved from every problem she has is getting on my nerves.
I'm starting to think my taste for fantasy is gone, which makes me a little sad. I might see if I can get a fantasy short story collection to see if it's the genre or the padding I'm having an issue with.
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