05-01-2006, 05:54 PM
|
|
Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 4
|
|
Re: Doesn't sound interesting to me
Hi,
As it happens that blurb turned me off that particular book originally. However I liked the excerpts from various books (Factory Orbit, Evoguia), so I bought several books from Mr. Jordan and though I tend to like mostly space opera, I really enjoyed his near future novels, Factory Orbit (10/10), Evoguia (10/10), Robin(9/10) and The Onuissance Cells (8/10). I purchased all the books since and I am planning to read Worldfarm next after finishing Unto the Breach  I quite like Mr. Jordan's style and I hope he keeps writting interesting and enjoyable sf.
Personally, I tend to like an author based on style rather than on ideology, so two of my "buy on publication" authors are John Ringo and Richard Morgan, and yes I love the Kildar series and I loved Market Forces also...
I did not find the 4 books by Mr. Jordan that I have read, particularly ideological, just very interesting explorations of possibilities based on current scientific understanding and carried out by common people, in an incremental way that to me reflects quite well how society moves.
Check out the excerpts rather than the blurb and enjoy,
Liviu
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by jwhayn
I am an avid sceience fiction ebook reader (read most of the websubscriptions at Baen.com). I am, nevertheless, very unlikely to purchase or read a book like Worldfarm One based on its blurb. UN good, USA bad -- sounds like a NYT headline. While you have the right to write such books, I do not need to read them.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Linear Mode
