Personally I love the series. Novik isn't the best author around (she has some writing issues) but her concept is awesome. I bought His Majesty's Dragon as a side thought because I thought the cover looked cool and went in knowing nothing about what the story was supposed to be. I thought it was just going to be a medieval book with a king getting a dragon. Was pleasantly surprised!
Nolu: Neuromancer is a bit hard to explain. Dude is a hacker (not in the modern day sense though. He literally gets immersed in his programs and doesn't want to leave at times) who had his nervous system attacked. Some people come and free him with a radical surgery to neutralize the mycotoxins and thus he owes them a debt. It's a pretty standard story line (for the most part...) but it's the world and characters that Gibson draws out for you that sucked me in.
Look into it. A lot of people acclaim it as the 'greatest sci-fi book ever written' and such bits. I don't know that it's the greatest but it's pretty **** good.
I'm starting "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy today
and then I will be reading "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe
Ohhhh, I love Cormac McCarthy's books!
I've read them all but The Road...it's always checked out at the library![]()
I need to pick up at least a couple of his books . . . his brother is taking this session of the workshop![]()
I sent PW my copy of "The Road" :rofl1: I hated it, and I couldnt get into his writing style (in that book anyway)