Really? Please let me know what makes Rough beasts worth reading. Spoilers would be fine. I just can't get past about a third in.
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Really? Please let me know what makes Rough beasts worth reading. Spoilers would be fine. I just can't get past about a third in.
This is more where I'm at. However, it might just be the Spock/Unification/Romulan Politics stuff that's putting me to sleep. The writing and TNG Spock are a one-two combination that puts me down for the count.
Rough Beasts Of Empire is part of a trilogy really, it's a longer storyline spanning three novels. It got some heat from fans, then loads of people said, after reading Plagues Of Night and Raise The Dawn that it all worked together. Sisko's story-arc will make sense then. To me atleast, and a lot of others. Some people hated it because of what they feel DRGIII did with Sisko on that novel. Others hated it simply for the writing style. Which is cool, really. I mean, you can't please everyone as a writer, nor should you attempt to. Some people will simply never like DRGIII stuff, and that's cool.
I'm betting a tenner that the same thing will happen for R&D. People complain it was boring, characters made no sense, where is the plot going.... then the next DS9 novel comes, it all works, and people will start praising it. A few people have already been saying this the moment R&D was released.
The really good stuff is yet to come...if I remember correctly, most the Reunification stuff is over after the first third.
I'm with you on this one. Raise the Dawn was such a flawless, epic finale to a huge tangle of stories that he's earned a little bit of faith from me, I think. In particular: TARAN'ATAR!! Wherever he's going with that is somewhere I'd like to go too, I bet.
I'm with you on that one.
I personally think he has good ideas for his novels, but he just can't tell the story that he tries to. Novels are more than just the story, it's also about the storytelling. I wish they would have given DS9 to someone else.
Ain't that the truth.
I'm really looking forward to this and following up on Revelations and Dust.
^ Agreed, Matthew. This is great news in my opinion!
Agreed. I love Taranatar and glad he's back along with Kira. And I did like Plagues and Raise The Dawn.
I never said he was a bad writer. I am saying and will forever say that Revelations And Dust was poorly written and edited. Like I said, I'm willing to give it one more go. I did enjoy his last Lost Era novel, so we'll see.
I think he's a good writer, but his big problem for me is that he can spend three or four hundred pages of set up, but it's set up for a second (or third) book, not the book where all of these pieces are being moved into place. It's not necessarily BAD set up, but he doesn't seem to provide sufficient pay off in a single book unless it's explicitly not an ongoing series (re: the difference between 'Serpent Among The Ruins' and 'Rough Beasts of Empire').
So I expect that this novel will be the pay off for his set up in Revelation and Dust, which I'm pleased about, but I'd be happy if he wrapped up the plotlines he's kicked off so that there's more room for other writers to come in and do their own thing without being concerned about setting on his toes.
I really wish we could go back to the days of ongoing narratives and rotating authors, though, like how the post-finale DS9 books used to work. There were ongoing plot threads, but still a rotating group of writers. I suppose that's just a side effect of the one book a month policy, and the cuts that have happened to the editorial staff over the years, but it's still depressing.
So I expect that this novel will be the pay off for his set up in Revelation and Dust, which I'm pleased about, but I'd be happy if he wrapped up the plotlines he's kicked off so that there's more room for other writers to come in and do their own thing without being concerned about setting on his toes.
I really wish we could go back to the days of ongoing narratives and rotating authors, though, like how the post-finale DS9 books used to work. There were ongoing plot threads, but still a rotating group of writers. I suppose that's just a side effect of the one book a month policy, and the cuts that have happened to the editorial staff over the years, but it's still depressing.
David George's writing seems to get a little long winded sometimes in certain chapters and the stories plots seem to take a long time to get to in Revelations and Dust. I liked it for the most part but some of the chapters really took along time to read through.
^ Sacraments of Fire.
If this isn't the Ascendant story, the title is simply cruel.
If this isn't the Ascendant story, the title is simply cruel.
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