tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post6602368721042613877..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Reading, ReadingRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-64645835658703210892016-07-01T16:56:39.000-04:002016-07-01T16:56:39.000-04:00Thanks!
I was looking forward for more Bob. But ...Thanks!<br /><br />I was looking forward for more Bob. But more nightmare green might be intriguing.<br />Alas Lords and Ladies doesn't really stick out as especially noteworthy in my Prattchet memories (that's not to say my memories of it are negative).<br /><br />May check out the kindle free preview and see if it catches my attention.The Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-82221098922971237552016-07-01T07:41:51.729-04:002016-07-01T07:41:51.729-04:00The Jack: I dunno. If you wanted more Bob Howard, ...The Jack: I dunno. If you wanted more Bob Howard, you might not like it; if you enjoyed Pratchett's "Lords and Ladies," you might like it. The main protagonist is a 20-something with PHANG Syndrome, dragooned into the Laundry as CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN -- or was it RED? -- really heats up. Madcap hijinks ensue.<br /><br /> That said, I liked "The Annihilation Score" plenty. Stross throws in lots of inside-cosmic-horror cross references and that carries it over the rough spots. (Also, my rough spots are not always the same as the typical SF reader's; I *like* Mo Howard.)<br /><br />Rickn8: Prolly.<br /><br />Anon: It periodically puts me off, but I have a couple hundred mystery/thriller books and several thousand SF books. A bit late to change.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-48033598031753858052016-06-30T23:25:38.863-04:002016-06-30T23:25:38.863-04:00The whole Sad Puppies/Hugo/Nebula kerfuffle has pu...The whole Sad Puppies/Hugo/Nebula kerfuffle has put me off SciFi/Fantasy for awhile. (And I got conned into reading something that sucked because it won some now-useless award. - Stay away from "The Name of the Wind.") Back to mystery/adventure. The Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch stories. Starting "The Prey Series" by John Sandford. <br /><br />IF they hadn't made another Jack Reacher movie, I might read some more of those. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-15515898810089732962016-06-30T17:13:16.963-04:002016-06-30T17:13:16.963-04:00How does the Nightmare Stacks stack up (pun uninte...How does the Nightmare Stacks stack up (pun unintended) with the previous books in the series?<br /><br />I found the The Rhesus Chart to be going through the motions and the Annihilation Score to be very annoying. (Mo came off to me as preachy, hypocritical, and outright racist (well the scifi equivalent). And the plot, I felt, kinda fell apart at the end.)<br /><br />So that, more than Stross' politics (which includes him recently demanding the FBI go after the NRA on RICO charges) made me not as inclined to shell out the money.<br /><br />But if this book acutally recaptures the enjoyment I had with the The Fuller Memorandum or the Jennifer Morgue that'd be nice.The Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-57952205908697452292016-06-30T13:15:48.685-04:002016-06-30T13:15:48.685-04:00Along with Her Majesty's forms you can be assu...Along with Her Majesty's forms you can be assured that the British solution will at some point involve Whitworth spanners and Lucas electrics.rickn8orhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911803300343351338noreply@blogger.com