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Pandora's Star
by Peter F. Hamilton
Many great books (Brave New World, 1984, etc.) developed fascinating worlds and characters in less than 300 pages. I can't abide books that spend 300 pages spewing descriptions of unconnected events. Exactly the same experience that I had with Way of Kings.
But, after 300 pages into the book, there was still no real plot. There was a description of an occluded star. And the good guys were going to build a ship to go see it. The even chose a captain! It takes me about a minute to read a page, so after six hours of reading rambling descriptions ... nothing really had happened.
If I wanted to read descriptions of neato sci-fi stuff, I'd just open up some RPG manuals from the '80s.
Didn't care reading many, many pages at a time that described the fauna of an alien planet... or how some new character is rich, vapid ... and you have no idea why they're even in the story. That happened a lot.
Not going to spend another 300 pages to get to the "good stuff".
This seems to be the problem with 1,000 page books. I don't want to spend 40 hours of reading unconnected, lengthy descriptions of unrelated events, places and characters before any semblance of a plot appears ... and maybe it never will.
But, after 300 pages into the book, there was still no real plot. There was a description of an occluded star. And the good guys were going to build a ship to go see it. The even chose a captain! It takes me about a minute to read a page, so after six hours of reading rambling descriptions ... nothing really had happened.
If I wanted to read descriptions of neato sci-fi stuff, I'd just open up some RPG manuals from the '80s.
Didn't care reading many, many pages at a time that described the fauna of an alien planet... or how some new character is rich, vapid ... and you have no idea why they're even in the story. That happened a lot.
Not going to spend another 300 pages to get to the "good stuff".
This seems to be the problem with 1,000 page books. I don't want to spend 40 hours of reading unconnected, lengthy descriptions of unrelated events, places and characters before any semblance of a plot appears ... and maybe it never will.