On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, David Rodemaker wrote:
@> > The Wraeththu books; someone told me Mr. Constantine was a decent
@> > writer. I'm not certain precisely what variety of crack that person was
@> > on, but it must be one that makes you blind to the use of exclamation
@> > points and question marks in the same sentence, the phrase "different to",
@> > multiple egregious omissions of commas, and similar things. Oh, yeah, and
@> > the complete lack of interesting stuff happening didn't really
@> > help either.
@>
@> *Ms.* Constantine, IIRC, sort of tends to agree with you.
So the person who recommended her to me is doubly an idiot. (And I'm an
idiot, too, for not checking on what he said.)
@> Her website is somewhere around on the web, and that trilogy was, again
@> IIRC, her first published work (and shows it). Very popular with the
@> goth crowd evidently, otherwise an interesting read for the
@> 'what-the-hell?' factor, neat *idea's*, 'different' blend of new-age
^^^^^^ Hey, irony. :)
@> magic/religion and pretty-boi sexuality, sort of fun spin at the end if
@> you can last that long <shrug>. Her later stuff, like the Grigori
@> Trilogy, is much better.
I made it to the third or fourth chapter in the second book. I fear I will
never experience the ending.
In my entire life, I have stopped reading maybe nine or ten novels. I
usually feel compelled to finish any piece of fiction I start reading, out
of morbid curiousity if nothing else. Ms. Constantine defeated me. I
dunno, maybe it was the 405,834rd thing she had that just happened to
involve the characters having sex. Also, it's kind of weird to read a
novel where you can almost see the protagonist gaining experience
points. (Tangent: a game based on this series might actually be neat.)
(Working on the theory that there can't be that many people going by the
name "Storm Constantine", I Googled and found her site. Since it contains
W3C certification tags and an Opera link, I may give her another shot.)
@> One of those series of books to keep on the shelf to throw at people when
@> they ask for something 'Different. No I mean *really* different.' <g>
Heh. Well, for that there's also Valis.
@> > And there's Jordan's Wheel of Time, which has also come up. This is what
@> > happens when you take a four-book series and stretch it out to three times
@> > that length. With sniffling and much adjusting of necklines.
@>
@> One of those series where I borrow the new book and skim it to see if
@> there's any point to actually reading the damn thing.
@>
@> Hasn't been for the last, ...umm, like five or something.
This is a good plan.
Once he's finished the series, I will probably get the remaining books out
of the library and force myself to read them, because I do feel compelled
to find out how that story ends. I refuse to give the guy any more money,
though. (I haven't since "Lord of Chaos", the "Nothing happens" book.)