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Dec. 5th, 2011 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaWithin the last few days I've started and closed before the 20th page:
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Grahame-Seth's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Tim Powers' Anubis Gates
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
The ONLY book I could tolerate to read from beginning to end that featured a white male character was Kenneth Oppel's Airborn, and I rather suspect this is because it was a YA.
*grumbles*
ETA: Started JM McDermott's Last Dragon, his debut novel. The chapters are all supershort, the language is all... I dunno, it's that kind of poncy literary fiction type. After 6 pages I didn't care enough about the characters to keep reading. His other book seems more interesting, though.
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Grahame-Seth's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Tim Powers' Anubis Gates
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
The ONLY book I could tolerate to read from beginning to end that featured a white male character was Kenneth Oppel's Airborn, and I rather suspect this is because it was a YA.
*grumbles*
ETA: Started JM McDermott's Last Dragon, his debut novel. The chapters are all supershort, the language is all... I dunno, it's that kind of poncy literary fiction type. After 6 pages I didn't care enough about the characters to keep reading. His other book seems more interesting, though.