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Outstanding ... the best ever, by the best in the field ... the ultimate combination of imagination and realism (Tom Clancy )
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'Outstanding ... the best ever, by the best in the field ... the ultimate combination of imagination and realism'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Leftovers,
By DominiConnor mod@cix.co.uk (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Burning City (Hardcover)
When you have written as many good books as Niven, you have bits left over from them. Thus we are presented with remnants from Magic Goes Away,in what looks like the rejected first plot of Destiny's road. We then are subjected to a bit of "who am I really" that didn't make into "World out of time". The 'political' structure is "The State", just not done as well. The principal character is Louis Wu's idiot son. Nessus is back as a wizard, but in a dull and pointless way. However, there is some innovation. Mr. Niven has managed to produce an implausible Fantasy novel. I think this is a first, given the freedom of ther genre, it certainly isn't easy. The level of mundane technology is far advanced from the period it is allegedly set, and the characters seem to act as if they were first generation holodeck simulations before they got good at it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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When does it get started?,
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This review is from: The Burning City (Hardcover)
Page 56, chapter 8. I know who the main character of the story is but I have known that from page 1. The rest of it is still a complete mystery and nothing has happened yet to keep me interested. As far as my understanding of book writing goes (note, I might be wrong), the idea is to hook your readers to the story as early as possible. This book totally fails to do so. It is probably very good once it's got going but I doubt my patience will last that long. A book desperately in need of a weight-watchers program to cut off the lengthy bits.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Too boring to finish,
This review is from: The Burning City (Paperback)
I tried. I really did. I've loved the work of these authors. However, it did not read like anything else they'd written, and I found it a complete bore. About 1/4 of the way through, I put it down, and have never bothered to pick it up again. I cannot recall an occasion when a book has left me so disappointed.Perhaps it gets better. But life's too short to keep on wading through such stuff.
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