Fantastic!
anonymous
December 31 2009, 17:45:51 UTC
I generally read books on my train commute via the kindle - and I've been hoping Bone Shop would come out in this form. When I realized it had I immediately purchased it and just finished reading it. Such a bittersweet experience - an absolute gem of a book - but perhaps the last MM book?
I'm an extremely picky reader and will frequently bail on books which stylistically rub me wrong (absurdly gritty, overly baroque settings, one dimensional characters/stories, and all the other failures one finds in speculative fictions) - and TA Pratt is one of the few authors who appears to take meticulous care of his prose and characters, treating them with love as independent entities whose lives he is merely reflecting to us.
I continue to push his books on my friends - I hope that the self-published experience has been one which invites him to continue in this format... for an author who does really well without a editor (bone shop proves he can self edit) he has the potential to be one of the first truly successful self-published authors in the information age.
I'm an extremely picky reader and will frequently bail on books which stylistically rub me wrong (absurdly gritty, overly baroque settings, one dimensional characters/stories, and all the other failures one finds in speculative fictions) - and TA Pratt is one of the few authors who appears to take meticulous care of his prose and characters, treating them with love as independent entities whose lives he is merely reflecting to us.
I continue to push his books on my friends - I hope that the self-published experience has been one which invites him to continue in this format... for an author who does really well without a editor (bone shop proves he can self edit) he has the potential to be one of the first truly successful self-published authors in the information age.
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