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Anyone here read Ian Irvine?

  • 16-12-2003 02:58PM
    #1
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I just picked up an Ian Irvine book in Chapters - Book 1 of 4 - and I'm finding it REALLY difficult to read. I find the prose incredibly stilted, and many passages poorly written. The world seems incredibly dull, just like the characters. I'm 200 pages in and very tempted not to keep going - so I'm wondering, has anyone else read his stuff and does he get better?


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  • #2
    fozzle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭fozzle


    I've read one of his books: Geomancer, book 1 of The Well of Echoes.

    I found it quite slow to get into too, there are certainly sections that lack the flow that marks a particularly good writer. I did enjoy it, and I will be (eventually) reading the next one, but I'm reading it for the science more than anything (I'm a geologist and I was quite imressed with his grasp of it)

    A friend of mine says that The View From The Mirror series is a lot better than the rest of his stuff, so maybe if you just keep at it! :)


  • #3
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I'll stick with Book 1 and see how it goes then :)

    I still wanna read some of my other books way more tho'...


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