Comments on: Blog.Reset() http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/index.php/2007/05/01/blogreset/ Thoughts on software, technology, and life Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:08:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: andy http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/index.php/2007/05/01/blogreset/comment-page-1/#comment-362 andy Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:25:45 +0000 http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/?p=317#comment-362 Thanks, Geoff. The sleep situation is getting better. Five hours last night! [[ No spoilers below ]] None of the books I mentioned were bad, or had down-beat endings... its just that after making good starts they all just kind of fizzled-out near to the end. As if the author had written them self into a corner. Quantico used the late introduction of a piece of technology to resolve the plot. The Execution Channel just went flat-out bizarre (effectively changing genre) at the very end, and I just didn't believe it. TSATG was a poor imitation of The Crow Road (one of my favorite books) and I guessed the ending quite early. I'd read reviews saying that this was Iain Bank's "return to form", but it seemed more like he had run out of ideas. Air I didn't finish: it was very well written but wasn't going anywhere. Next on my fiction list is Ian McEwan's Saturday. Andy Thanks, Geoff.

The sleep situation is getting better. Five hours last night!

[[ No spoilers below ]]

None of the books I mentioned were bad, or had down-beat endings… its just that after making good starts they all just kind of fizzled-out near to the end. As if the author had written them self into a corner. Quantico used the late introduction of a piece of technology to resolve the plot. The Execution Channel just went flat-out bizarre (effectively changing genre) at the very end, and I just didn’t believe it. TSATG was a poor imitation of The Crow Road (one of my favorite books) and I guessed the ending quite early. I’d read reviews saying that this was Iain Bank’s “return to form”, but it seemed more like he had run out of ideas. Air I didn’t finish: it was very well written but wasn’t going anywhere.

Next on my fiction list is Ian McEwan’s Saturday.

Andy

]]> By: Geoff Arnold http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/index.php/2007/05/01/blogreset/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Geoff Arnold Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:51:12 +0000 http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/?p=317#comment-357 Congratulations, and good luck on the sleep thing. (Pace yourself carefully.) As for books, thanks for warning me about those novels: they were all on the "maybe soon" list. And frankly, they all look like downers. (Did any of them end on an up-beat?) Congratulations, and good luck on the sleep thing. (Pace yourself carefully.)

As for books, thanks for warning me about those novels: they were all on the “maybe soon” list. And frankly, they all look like downers. (Did any of them end on an up-beat?)

]]> By: andy http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/index.php/2007/05/01/blogreset/comment-page-1/#comment-356 andy Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:13:03 +0000 http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/?p=317#comment-356 Thanks Gilat! I owe you an email... Thanks Gilat! I owe you an email…

]]> By: Gilat http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/index.php/2007/05/01/blogreset/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Gilat Thu, 31 May 2007 18:48:41 +0000 http://www.andrewjohnson.me.uk/blog/?p=317#comment-345 Congratulations!;-) XX Congratulations!;-)

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