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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
Great find breck. I actually tend to like books done in a more workman's style than crafted in a high language ala tolkein/jordan.
I can appreciate a good yarn and a master wordsmith, but I have to be in the right mood and have just the perfect amount of patience at that particular point in time.
Maybe it's the civil servant in me. Even with a B.A. in Journalism, I tend to go for the less poetic works.
Actually - I severely dislike poetry. Not my thing  |
hahaha...I think we are related...I just don't now and never have "gotten" poetry. I am not even a huge music lover either.
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Anyone here remember (fondly) the Shadowrun books of the early '90's? Good clean fun, dysotopian cyberpunk at TSR's best...take that as you will.
On further read through the preview chapters, I severely dislike Daniel Suarez now. I had planned on not buying anything else until I cleared some dreck out of my TBR pile. But, now I need to add these to my wishlist.
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Never ran across the Shadowrun books before thanks for the tip...will give it a look.
I haven't read any other Daniel Suarez books other than Daemon and Freedom(TM). But I was drawn into the fist book quickly and perhaps I was able to buy into the premise longer? Daemon has some holes for sure, still it was fun for me. And Freedom(TM) was a nice finish to the story though I seem to recall there might be a 3rd book. And as I mentioned I added the Audible versions of them after reading...the reader does a super job.
Right now I am going to read Scalzi's "Old Man's War" from the monthly book club vote here (thanks Jon!! hahaha) then I WANT to read
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
But I am definitely going to give the Shadowrun books a look too. Where were all these great reading options when I was a kid? We have great stuff, but there we now have such wonderful access it's almost depressing to know how little of it one will get to read.
Maybe that's why I have my Audible subscription, when I am working I am listening to some book. I setup the wireless broadcast here at home so I always have headphones on, well, a good part of the day anyway. I guess that means I am "wired in" to "the 'verse"? hahaha...
