Kiln People, David Brin

[marjai]

My husband was amazed by how long it took me to finish the book. He was mostly being sarcastic - it's 576 pages long

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[raphaim]

Damn... forgot all about his uplift novels. I'm going to have to scrounge around the many boxes of books I've got and try to find them and reread them now.

:D

[marjai]

You don't run across many authors whose series work doesn't somehow lessen in quality after the 4th book or so. I think Brin is one of those few.

[h_postmortemus]

Oooh, you're a David Brin fan too? :)

I liked Kiln People but I felt it could have been better. Maybe if it'd been shorter, more tightly packed...

Brin definitely goes for quality over quantity. Have to say I was pretty disappointed with The Postman movie but wasn't at all surprised by what Hollywood did with it...

[marjai]

I can't bring myself to see The Postman, I just can't.

[h_postmortemus]

It has it's moments.

One of the best seeing a certain famous celebrity pop-up. I was like, "Huh?" and then The Postmasn says "Say, aren't you--". It was amusing.

Frankly, it would have made a better mini-series.

[marjai]

I guess the question I have is, if you disconnect the movie from the books it's supposedly based on, is the movie itself any good?

I mean, Starship Troopers is a passable movie if you *completely* divorce it from the novel. Though I think I wept...