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2014 book log #2 - Book Of Secrets
Feb. 18th, 2014 01:11 pmSo, I finished Chris Roberson's Book Of Secrets - was fun for the most part, as a nice play on various pulp heroes and tropes, though the stories-withing-the-story didn't all quite feel like writings from the appropriate era. The first couple did well, though, and it's fun to recognise the inspirations.
You can tell it's an older book reissued though- at no point does our inquisitve hero just whip out his smartphone and head to wikipedia, instead of looking stuff up in actual bricks-and-mortar reference libraries! Because, of course, there were no tablets and internet smartphones in 2001.
Downsides were a somewhat rushed, tell-don't-show ending (and which felt a bit Creationist), and - not the author's fault - a fair number of typos throughout (someone having a waste instead of a waist, for example, and not even having a bathroom scene as an excuse).
Twas fun, though, and I would now like to read the apparently-related "End Of the Century". I'd say it's the weakest of Roberson's books, but if that's as bad as they get, then that's good. If you see what I mean.
You can tell it's an older book reissued though- at no point does our inquisitve hero just whip out his smartphone and head to wikipedia, instead of looking stuff up in actual bricks-and-mortar reference libraries! Because, of course, there were no tablets and internet smartphones in 2001.
Downsides were a somewhat rushed, tell-don't-show ending (and which felt a bit Creationist), and - not the author's fault - a fair number of typos throughout (someone having a waste instead of a waist, for example, and not even having a bathroom scene as an excuse).
Twas fun, though, and I would now like to read the apparently-related "End Of the Century". I'd say it's the weakest of Roberson's books, but if that's as bad as they get, then that's good. If you see what I mean.
