Reading Marathon: The Typhon Pact... and Beyond!

[bdub76]

Starfleet: Where the doctors are strong, the captains are good-looking, and the children are all above-average.

And where you can become chief engineer without knowing how to talk to women.

 

[Bryan Levy]

I have finished Coming of the Terraphiles, and I really liked it. I found myself most liking it at its most Moorcock-ian, when it was all
about Order and Chaos. I didn’t love the first fifty or so pages, when it was a Wodehouse pastiche, but I got it. I thought Moorcock really captured Matt Smith quite well, though. I certainly liked it enough to move straight onto The Dreamthief’s Daughter.

 

[NStephenH]

Out of curiosity, Stevil, how long would you think it takes you to write up each review. I'm by no means a trained writer, and I struggle to make points (if I do at all), and each takes me over an hour.

 

[Stevil2001]

I would guess approximately an hour. I think some of the books I don't have a lot to say about would be more like 30 minutes, whereas the Coda ones or anything by Una McCormack, probably as much as two hours. But on average, I'd guess an hour.

There's a lot of mental prewriting, though; when I read a book, I'm often reading it through the lens of how I am going to write it up, so I am planning points as I go.