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Jan. 13th, 2019 10:59 am
dsrtao: dsr as a LEGO minifig (Default)
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6 Paradise, Craig Alanson
7 Black Ops, same
8 Zero Hour, same

Books three through five of an apparently no-master-plot series of milSF in which the narrator is saved by ingenious plans that nobody else is able to think of, including the alien super-AI nicknamed Skippy.

There are series where one feels sure that the author has A Plan: Charlie Stross's Laundry, Jim Butcher's Dresden, Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos. This is not one of them. The writing is not sufficiently good to maintain my interest; the characters are not exactly flat but don't have much depth; the plots are a stream of incidents. I'm done.

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Date: 2019-01-13 08:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alexxkay
Brust may have A Plan by now, as he knows he's got only a few books left, but at least up until a few years ago, he was definitely making them up as he went along. He is, however, very skilled at making plots appear to cohere together, even when they don't necessarily *do* so.

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Date: 2019-01-15 09:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jducoeur
Of course, having a dedicated Chronographer probably has been helping him with that...

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Date: 2019-01-16 06:16 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alexxkay
*bows*

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Date: 2019-01-16 06:16 am (UTC)
alexxkay: (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexxkay
I try :-) And I did recently answer a couple queries for him.
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