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Peter F. Hamilton?

Optimistic

18:39 / 26.12.02

Has anyone ever read THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION or any other books by this author? Specifically in THE NIGHT'S DAWN trilogy.

Any good? Worth reading???

that

19:10 / 26.12.02

I tried, and was vanquished. The man is verbose, supernaturally verbose. Interesting ideas, images, but couched in such a way to make them virtually unintelligible. My two penneth, anyway...

Trijhaos

22:42 / 26.12.02

I also tried. I read part of one, I believe it was the Neutronium Alchemist or some such thing. I got up to this part with Al Capone walking around shooting fireballs out of his hands. I got a bit lost at that part and decided I'd go back to the beginning of the series, but I've never gotten around to it. I'd try one of his stand alone books like The Nano Flower and see if you liked his writing.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:56 / 27.12.02

I loved the Night's Dawn trilogy- they were kind of silly, but nicely epic. I found the ending a little disappointing, however.

Some of the set-pieces were truly wonderful, though.

invisible_al

09:13 / 30.12.02

Loved 'em overwritten sci-fi tosh that they may be. The first and second books are very nice indeed but the third book gets bogged down and loses it's way for the most part. I kept wanting to skip ahead to the exciting exploration bits with Captain Calvert and the Lord of Ruin, he seemed to keep focusing on the less interesting characters.
My nomination for best set piece, end of the second book with the attack on the habitat and Calvert comming back to find what happened, that's a way to end a book I thought

nuberty

01:31 / 02.01.03

I too wanted too skip forwards to the Captain Calvert parts with the aliens. The whole interaction of horror and sci-fi seemed to let the book down a bit and the very anti sci-fi ending was a real disapointment. It had some interesting ideas though and it played out as quite a good space opera.

that

14:07 / 22.01.03

Having started 'The Reality Dysfunction' again, I've realised that it was actually severe depression which rendered the book unreadable the first time. As my meds are now working, the book is perfectly intelligible. Not sure it's fantastically well-written, but it's not bad, and I am quite enjoying it - looking forward to reading the rest.

Whisky Priestess

15:28 / 22.01.03

I actually prefer his earlier, funnier work, which is to say the three mystery/sci=fi novels of a manageable size he started out with , rather than the thumping great doorstoppers he keeps excreting these days ... managed to get thru the first one but choked on parts 2 and 3 (tragically, I own them all anyway. Not in hardback, mind.)

But you could do a lot worse than read, as someone said, A Quantum Murder, The nano-flower and the other one in the trilogy. For a start they're set in a future England where Peterborough is the national capital, and that's pretty fucked up right there.

Lurid Archive

15:41 / 22.01.03

I quite like him, though it does get a bit heavy going sometimes and the politics are a bit right wing.

that

17:14 / 22.01.03

Yuh...I got that too, and I've only been here for a couple of hundred pages.

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