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View Poll Results: What's your opinion of the Chronicles of St Mary's series?
It's Great! 10 47.62%
It's OK 8 38.10%
It's Awful! 3 14.29%
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Old 10-13-2024, 05:21 AM   #31
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By popular demand I've added a poll. It's anonymous, and the results will be only visible after the poll ends in 30 days time.
Good poll.
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Old 10-13-2024, 05:50 AM   #32
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I didn't have any problems with the mechanics of the series - there are a million ways to do time travel - it just felt like a shallow copy of Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel conceit.

I accept that plenty of people seem to like it. That's fine. I just felt a need to offer a counterpoint to JSWolf when it came up in the Deals thread.
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Old 10-13-2024, 06:43 AM   #33
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We are missing the obligatory post saying there is something wrong with the poll, so ...

There is something wrong with the poll.
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Old 10-13-2024, 06:58 AM   #34
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Am I allowed to vote even though I've not read any of the books?

Judging by this thread, I have an excellent idea of what I'd think of them.
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Old 10-13-2024, 12:26 PM   #35
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Am I allowed to vote even though I've not read any of the books?
Feel free. This poll is, of course, just as useful as any other internet poll.
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Old 10-13-2024, 08:18 PM   #36
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There is time travel.

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All You Need Is Kill follows a soldier named Keiji Kiriya, who, after dying in a battle with extraterrestrials, is caught in a time loop that makes him live the same day repeatedly, allowing Kiriya to improve his fighting skills.
That's a very nice copy-paste from Wikipedia. Like so much of Wikipedia these days, it's almost correct. Almost.
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Old 10-14-2024, 07:00 AM   #37
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I've read the first five. I enjoyed all of them but they started to wear a little so decided to come back for more after a break. I like that they have both humour and the occasional serious streak - often in the same breath.

Of course, anyone expecting conventional time-travel rules (hmm, did I really just write that?) is going to have difficulties. I admit that I had difficulties, at first, in the jump from book 3 to book 4, but it settled in okay and I ended up liking what it added to the story.
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Old 11-02-2024, 12:57 PM   #38
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I've read the first three books and enjoy it very much. Yes, it's fluffy and the time travel has all sorts of holes in it, but so what? It's fun, and that's all I expect from it.
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Old 11-02-2024, 02:07 PM   #39
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I've read the first three books and enjoy it very much. Yes, it's fluffy and the time travel has all sorts of holes in it, but so what? It's fun, and that's all I expect from it.
I enjoyed them to begin with but hit diminishing returns after five or six. It just felt like more of the same for no reason.

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