READ-A-THON 2011: 2nd Update

I’m still here. Still reading. I started up again at 4:00 pm and then finished at 7:00 pm. I read issue 39, 40 and 41 of Lucifer which completes the four issue ark ‘Naglfar’ and issue 41, ‘Sisters of Mercy’ was a coda to the story. I enjoyed it although I felt it slightly whimpered out at the end but it has started the ball running on a major storyline.

I’m still reading The Quantum Thief. It’s going really well, the thing I like about it is that Rajaniemi doesn’t fall into the trap that a lot of hard SF writers get into which is that they preoccupied with ‘showing off’ their world-building skills rather than concentrating on giving the reader a story or good characters. Once you get past the initial spectacle of the book, it’s really, in essence, a good mystery/detective fiction.

“‘I don’t have any more. It was just a physical object, one of a kind.’

‘Oh crap,’ the monster says. ‘Oh man. That’s way too much. I’m really sorry. I didn’t mean to – look, I think I can regurgitate it and we can put it back together again–

‘Really, it’s fine.’

‘You know, it was a reflex, this body just has to conform to all kinds of narrative stereotypes.’” - The Quantum Thief, page 77

Reading Stats:

• The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi – page 134 (+60)
• Wildlife by Richard Ford – page 0
• Lucifer by Mike Carey and various artists – read issues 39, 40 & 41

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