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Wars, various
Sep. 13th, 2006 08:34 pmI'm reading three books currently that intersect in 1941, but I've only finished one of them (the other two being Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française (an opportunity to see if those special characters work) and Sybille Bedford's Quicksand). And then I started a CJ Cherryh omnibus and spoilt my theme.
( Margery Alllingham, Traitor's Purse. )
CJ Cherryh, Heavy Time. I bounced off CJ Cherryh half a dozen times before I thought to try Cyteen, which I really enjoyed. It's a book that sets itself a number of limits and does excellently within them; I particularly like the way she manages pace despite almost all the action being internal. When external action happens (my copy's not here, but the scene I'm thinking of is where something explodes, and Florian and Caitlin are involved) as well it's competently done and exciting, but it's just not a priority.
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( Margery Alllingham, Traitor's Purse. )
CJ Cherryh, Heavy Time. I bounced off CJ Cherryh half a dozen times before I thought to try Cyteen, which I really enjoyed. It's a book that sets itself a number of limits and does excellently within them; I particularly like the way she manages pace despite almost all the action being internal. When external action happens (my copy's not here, but the scene I'm thinking of is where something explodes, and Florian and Caitlin are involved) as well it's competently done and exciting, but it's just not a priority.
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