Still reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. Book 2 of The Passage trilogy. Enjoying it enough to not give up, but not enjoying it enough it enough to read it quickly, so it’s going slowly. Going to try to speed up and finish it quickly.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I’m desperately trying to finish Neuromancer by William Gibson so I can move on to spooky season books. It’s not bad at all, I’m just not really clicking with it, so it’s been slow going.
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Finished Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles, a two-timeline mystery focusing on the unsolved murder of a member of a group of friends at Oxford. The author normally writes steamy romances, but this tastefully cut to black before anything got explicit. Something about the writing or story made it a very enjoyable, fast read; I haven’t devoured anything so quickly in ages.
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I liked the premise/vibe of Neuromancer a lot more than the actual narrative. Some of the dialogue was just painful.
Absolutely agreed. The narrative makes choices in a few places, and some of the second half seems kind of muddled.
But the shuriken stars are like the stars under which he voyaged! So deep.
I loved the first third of Neuromancer. The rest largely felt like it failed to deliver, and a bit like it went off the rails. Count Zero was a bit better in execution.
That’s about where I started to lose interest, too. So much of the interesting world-building is in that first part, before it decides to turn into a heist novel.