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Vellum: Hal Duncan

Mar 17, 2010 16:29

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i think this author is overrated!!!, scifi that makes you sigh, i couldn't even finish this awful book, author last names a-f, overrated reading fails

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therearewords March 17 2010, 22:40:26 UTC

O I agree on this so bloody much!

It felt to me like the author put every note he ever written and aligned some names to give it a "storyline". At first I was interested, but after another turn to nowhere I started skipping through. By the end I discovered it's part of a trilogy and I started laughing like a mad man. Why does crap like this gets produced?

future_guardian March 17 2010, 23:11:42 UTC

So, I heard about this author (and therefore, book) because of a political stance he took. I forget what it (the politcal stance) was now, but I know I was impressed. So I thought, "Well, I have this book and it may be a different genre of fantasy than I'm used to reading, but maybe I should give it a chance." I never got around to reading it, not because I heard any bad reviews of it, but because I decided I really didn't like that genre to begin with and I had other more pressing books to read. So, it never got read. And then I just got tired of it sitting on my bookshelf, and donated it.

Given this review, I'm glad I didn't bother reading.

heartbreak_beat March 18 2010, 00:17:21 UTC

I gave up on it too. I thought that the parts I could follow were good, but then it just got so damned disjointed that it just was unreadable. I'm surprised ANYONE could get through it.
Vellum is probably the only book I have NO idea how to describe. I honestly can't tell you what it's about and all the descriptions I've read of it don't even sound like the novel I read.

silverflight8 March 18 2010, 04:22:53 UTC

Your comment reminds me of the TV tropes page for War and Peace--Okay, we give up. War And Peace defies summary. :P

lucid_dr34ming March 18 2010, 02:31:26 UTC

Haha I posted this a couple months back, for the exact same reasons. While it was really cool to see Sumerian mythology represented in fiction for once, I gave up less than halfway through.

Plus I think he's trying WAY TOO HARD.

silverflight8 March 18 2010, 04:23:33 UTC

You already did? *blushes*

Seconding the trying-too-hard idea. I loved the premise.

idemandjustice March 18 2010, 03:19:02 UTC

I made it about half-way through this one. I really wanted to like it, but it was too damn disjointed for me to get attached to anybody.

If you like weird disjointed writing, try House of Leaves. It's one of my favorites. Way more engrossing than this one.