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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Hmm... the last couple of the TOR freebees I tried kind of fizzled for me, so I gave up on them. Still have Starfish, Gray, Old Mans War, (may another I can't remember) that I haven't read yet. Perhaps from your message I will give Startfish a wack. I read Four and Twenty Blackbirds based on your reco and really liked that.
Currently slogging my way through Passage to Inda (book club pick) and I'm still waiting for something to happen. The arcane languge/phrasing makes it not easy to read for me. I'm not sure if this is done intentionally to emulate how Indian's speek English or not... I think not because the dialog of the Brits is just as arcane. Perhaps it is just the language of the day for 1932?
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I read Starfish in paper copy ages ago, really liked it, tracked down the sequels when they came out at the library, and got confused and befuzzled partway through the (I think) third book. I didn't realize they were all in ebooks now, that's good, and breaks Tor's annoying freebie trend of getting you hooked on an author who has only one book in electronic format.
I also read Farthing in paperback yonks ago, saw it on the Tor giveaway, reread it, and bought the second book, Ha'Penny, really liked it, and am waiting to get the final book, Half a Crown, from the library (I really, really rarely buy hardcover novels.) I recommend them to anyone who likes alternative history.
If the book club book is A Passage to India I might join in! I read it for school ages ago, and found it less awful than I'd feared (it was a class in colonial history, and I am not fond of postmodernists who assign novels as historical texts - the book might tell us a great deal about what the British thought of empire in 1932, but very little about what it was actually like in India.) I know it's childish but whenever I'm required to read something I assume I'll hate it (if it were fun why would they have to assign it?) and am often pleasantly surprised.