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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now I'm reading The Human Division by John Scalzi, which I bought this year rather than next thanks to a lucky discount code win on the Kobo contest.
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Before I started The Human DIvision I read
Precious and the Monkeys by Alexander McCall Smith. This is a children's story about Precious Ramotzwe, of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
Unfortunately, I really hated the tone taken, and found it irritatingly patronising, rather than humorously avuncular. Kipling's Just So Stories has a tone that works. It felt like this was trying for a similar tone, but for me it failed completely.
The Human Division by John Scalzi
A novel as a collection of episodes. It worked well for me, each episode a complete story, but together making a novel.
Next up:
The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi.