• jballs
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    20 hours ago

    I read the first book and had absolutely no fucking clue what was happening. Do they get better? I feel like I needed to be doing cocaine at the time.

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      18 hours ago

      The first one is mostly vibes. There’s not a ton of good story meat in it, and it’s pretty short. Book 2 really gets going though, and book 3 is just wild. Once you get to Wolves of the Calla, though, it’s really gonna test your patience.

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      19 hours ago

      I enjoyed them but as I recall it stays weird. I’m into that, though. My favorites are mostly pretty weird.

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          18 hours ago

          My favorites for fiction would be Neal Stephenson,Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, Ursula Le Guin, Stephen R. Donaldson, Charles Bukowski, Iain Banks, Frederick Pohl, Glen Cook, Jim Butcher

    • Ups and downs; like I said, written over a dozen years, the styles vary, and there’s some consensus that there are a couple which are “the best,” and a couple which aren’t. However, if you didn’t like the first, it’s probably fair to say you probably wouldn’t much care for the rest.