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, )More like an implosion for me.danlo wrote:Mine too!Jay wrote:the ending of book 4 made my head explode
It's more like you're walking through a desert, see a mirage of an oasis, stumble towards it and walk into a cactus (this fits your "spikes" idea) so not only are you hurt but you're still thirsty, because you don't have a knife to cut the cactus open to get the water out. The knife represents the knowledge needed to fully understand the events of the book. But now that you're at Kevin's Watch, there are a bunch of other SRD fans and, if you so choose, you can join in our effort to slice open that cactus. But don't get so eager to drink the water (find out the basic plot, figure out what's going on) that you miss those sweet and succulent fruit (the morally challenging, emotionally touching, super cool monsters/creatures parts of the book).Cshaw71 wrote:A little off topic here but FR was like that same wall with spikes, just because now we have to wait a loooooooooong time for the next one.
". My experience was similar. I recall wanting (needing?) to talk to someone about it, but no one I knew was even reading it. A couple weeks later, a speed-reading friend finished, but I was past that WTF moment.Sorus wrote:I can think of only a couple of other instances where I became so involved in a book that it was almost a shock to come back to the real world. I think I was literally a bit dazed, and no, TDAGD was not yet available.
That's what KW is for. I think I made my first post on the Gap discussionItisWritten wrote:My experience was similar. I recall wanting (needing?) to talk to someone about it, but no one I knew was even reading it. A couple weeks later, a speed-reading friend finished, but I was past that WTF moment.Sorus wrote:I can think of only a couple of other instances where I became so involved in a book that it was almost a shock to come back to the real world. I think I was literally a bit dazed, and no, TDAGD was not yet available.
But that was in Jan of '96. I wasn't on the net, and did KW exist? Too late, but not to wish that I had then what I have now.Holsety wrote:That's what KW is for. I think I made my first post on the Gap discussionItisWritten wrote:My experience was similar. I recall wanting (needing?) to talk to someone about it, but no one I knew was even reading it. A couple weeks later, a speed-reading friend finished, but I was past that WTF moment.Sorus wrote:I can think of only a couple of other instances where I became so involved in a book that it was almost a shock to come back to the real world. I think I was literally a bit dazed, and no, TDAGD was not yet available.
Excellent post, The Dreaming.The Dreaming wrote:I dunno, I think the series definitely rates as *hard* sci-fi, and even fails to cheat where a lot of *hard* sci-fi does. (Damn artificial gravity and inertial dampeners, one of the most pervasive and silly concepts in Science Fiction) The story just isn't about science, it's about people, unlike Asimov. Hell, a lot of so called "hard" sci-fi relies on a lot of technobable and technology that makes the story work better. The only real *lie* in the Gap is, well, The Gap. Everything else (the amnion, cybernetics, most of the weaponry) stays pretty damn plausible. Even some of the stuff that really isn't (Matter Cannon) he at least makes an attempt to fabricate some science around it. (and the technology as described is just damn cool, it would look great on film if they did it right. Think strobe lights that make huge explosions)
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