technicat@bookwyrm.social hat Leviathan Wakes von James S. A. Corey besprochen (The Expanse, #1)
This is the beginning of a fun reread
I think this is the beginning of my second reread of whole series, kind of hard to believe because that's a lot of pages, but I zipped through this first one again in a few days. I always put on my snooty reader attitude and think, huh, this is fun but not the most amazing writing, and then I proceed to the next chapter, but actually there's a lot of deftness to the writing, what with the switching among viewpoints of the different characters, and you can't beat the world-building complete with future patois and respect for physics. And this is a collaborative work (James Corey is the pen name of the two authors), so I'm always amazed how people can work together and merge their sensibilities to create something, especially when they're both writing (I think I read somewhere that they took turns with the chapters). There's an author …
I think this is the beginning of my second reread of whole series, kind of hard to believe because that's a lot of pages, but I zipped through this first one again in a few days. I always put on my snooty reader attitude and think, huh, this is fun but not the most amazing writing, and then I proceed to the next chapter, but actually there's a lot of deftness to the writing, what with the switching among viewpoints of the different characters, and you can't beat the world-building complete with future patois and respect for physics. And this is a collaborative work (James Corey is the pen name of the two authors), so I'm always amazed how people can work together and merge their sensibilities to create something, especially when they're both writing (I think I read somewhere that they took turns with the chapters). There's an author interview at the end which is pretty interesting but I was distracted wondering if they're both answering and are they taking turns?
