I too think Garrett has gone down hill, but thought the first three Instrumentality books were quite good and was eager for the 4th. I thought I saw on Amazon that it was 4th of 4...maybe not, can't find it now...either way, even if there is more to come, this was super sloppy.Rereading Dragon Never Sleeps to reaffirm my affections.
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:08 PM, Eric Herrmann <shpshftr@xmission.com> wrote:
Glen doesn’t seem to be getting better as he’s aged.But I don’t think it is directly his age, but the fact that his writing process had changed since he retired.He used to spend his days on the assembly line working over the story in his head and then typing it when he got home.I remember him as part of a panel at WorldCon in 1996 pontificating about how writing had gone down hill with the advent of the computer.He remarked something to the effect that since typing drafts was hard, that it forced writers to really think about what they were writing.And that computers made it too easy to just spew out lots of words and that size and brevity didn’t matter.I think this shows in his early writing vs his writing over the past 10 years or so.The books from the past couple decades have been a lot thicker and not as tight, or anywhere as good.Cheers,On Mar 18, 2014, at 7:02 AM, saulamca@aol.com wrote:future story lines are a mystery here in Virginia too.
only hoping for more juice and less disapointment.
as I age, I find my favorite authors dying off, or fading away...
Rex Stout, Adam Hall, Ross Thomas...they only got better as they aged...
wonder if if was their editors?
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So, what is happening about Garrett (and Strafa et al)Aside from the first pages and the very end, WBA lefta very sour taste in my mouth--and even the endingin its totality was unpleasant.Doc D-----Original Message-----
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Also finished last night - and agree, it's not well wrapped up - but also Not sure that this was the last in the series. am ever hopeful.
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Finished the last installment of the Instrumentalities of the Night and after having reread the first three prior. I'm disappointed. Piper Hecht/Else Tage is one of Cook's better creations and WGM doesn't nearly do justice to what had been presented previously.
I remember reading an interview some time ago where Cook said that sales weren't good and so wonder if the original intent was to have a longer series and he had to wrap things up prematurely. Even taking that into account, the book felt like it was racing along toward something that never materialized, leaving lots of loose ends and an unsatisfying, unresolved conclusion.
Jerry Kalayjian
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