Dry

[threemonkeys]

I actually finished a book today. It seems like forever since the last one. Lets hope this reading drought is coming to an end. The problem wasn't particularly with the book - Transcendent by Stephen Baxter. It is the third in a series and although Baxter's series don't really connect as one story in the way other writers usually have them, it was still going to be a known quantity. There is one trick you have to know when reading Baxter though. Sometimes he writes his story in the exposition. What seems to be the primary story is just a thin thread to hold the descriptive bits together. In that exposition he weaves a puzzle on a big scale. This was such a book. I guess if readers don't catch on to that then shouts of "boring" will come from them. Having said that, it isn't one of Baxter's great puzzles. The setting up was fine, but the resolution was pretty thin. "Wishy washy" was the term that came to mind.

Ah well, I'm off to find another book.