tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post5880363234332292108..comments2024-03-18T13:59:58.220+01:00Comments on Speculiction...: Review of Prince of Thorns by Mark LawrenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-80625421647746923942017-07-28T14:21:12.656+02:002017-07-28T14:21:12.656+02:00Your review was fairly disappointing to read. It s...Your review was fairly disappointing to read. It seems as though you read or heard someone(thing) calling this (shudder*cough-grimlark-cough*hack/I really loath that word) and then when reading (*skimming?) it colored the book front to back.<br />The writing itself is, as you said, 'tight and focused' but also it is lyrical,engaging, and he actually has a setting that I confess is a weakness of mine, the far,far future earth, which seems as an amalgamation of A Canticle for Leibowitz, Swanwick's Darger & Sirplus setting and Vance's 'Dying Earth', along with the protagonist from A Clockwork Orange. The first book in the series is the roughest one, I cannot deny that, but your review..it almost seems as though you didn't even read it. I can assure you that GRINLARK was not his goal when writing these (or any of his other) books. He is a much better writer than that and I think that you should re-read the book, or even better, read all three as one book and leave the genre tags to the book shelvers and marketing kooks. If you truly think the book(s) are awful you should at least re-write the review. Your a better writer than that and so is Mr. Lawrence.<br />p.s. this was written after a night out, I apologize for errors, bad grammar and terrible sentence structure, etc,etc... Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11210924089491042098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-60619126810606611632017-06-09T06:30:10.385+02:002017-06-09T06:30:10.385+02:00Thanks for listing so many reasons why my review i...Thanks for listing so many reasons why my review is deeply stupid. You've really given us some good material for discussion! The only question is where to start...<br />Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07796098208589965362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-88715345122771685342017-06-08T22:12:56.968+02:002017-06-08T22:12:56.968+02:00This is a deeply stupid "review".This is a deeply stupid "review".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com