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Nickname: hist
Location: Vancouver, BC
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I'm 38 years old and have a B.S. in History. I've been living in Vancouver for 10 years now. I've been a Science Fiction & Fantasy fan for 20 years, and into History for that long as well. My favourite show is Doctor Who, though it was Star Trek until Voyager came around. If you'd like to discuss any of these reviews, or topics related to them, feel free to email me at hist@shaw.ca Happy Reading… Read moreI'm 38 years old and have a B.S. in History. I've been living in Vancouver for 10 years now. I've been a Science Fiction & Fantasy fan for 20 years, and into History for that long as well. My favourite show is Doctor Who, though it was Star Trek until Voyager came around.
If you'd like to discuss any of these reviews, or topics related to them, feel free to email me at hist@shaw.ca
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Reviewer Rank: 55 - Total Helpful Votes: 2543 of 2856
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
At times, I am so jealous of John Scalzi. He seems to have more writing talent in his little finger (not to mention his middle one!) than many people do in their entire bodies. What brings this feeling to mind today? Having just read Scalzi's first novel, Agent to the Stars and realizing that it's one of the funniest, yet also kind of profound, novels I've read in a long time. Curse you, Scalzi!! But I just can't put it down.
I don't know whether Scalzi has any history in Hollywood or in the agent field, but he captures the whole Hollywood scene perfectly, at least to these layman eyes. There's the cutthroat negotiations of getting back-end deals versus front-loaded ones for… Read more
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Morgan Howell's first series, Queen of the Orcs, definitely had its ups and downs, with pedestrian prose but great society-building. With that series complete, what would Howell do for an encore? I bring you the first book in his new series, A Woman Worth Ten Coppers. It's an intriguing book, far better written than his first series, but it still has a few bumps to get over. Unlike his first series, it wasn't written all at once and published in a monthly fashion (the second book is coming out later this year), so there is hope that these bumps will be smoothed out in subsequent books. As it is, Howell sets up an interesting world and tells a pretty good tale.
Introductory… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
The Pirate King, book two in R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms series called "Transitions," suffers greatly from middle-book syndrome, as well as just not being as interesting as the first book, The Orc King. The pacing of the book just seems off, a large part of the book is filled with characters I didn't care much about (and a couple who I had trouble telling apart occasionally), and it just seemed too much like a transitional novel. You might not think that's a bad thing in a series called "Transitions," but this one goes a bit too far in that direction.
The major problem I had with The Pirate King is that too much of the action is removed from the characters who I actually… Read more
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