Long Sun Laughs

Dave Tallman · 09 Jan 2009, 20:46 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:46:56 -0700
Subject: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
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John Watkins wrote:
> I loved the ending of Lake, too--it's when I moved from liking the
> books to LOVING them.  Just, right in the middle of this sort of
> religious mystery story, a full on BOND VILLAIN appears and is
> simultaneously scary and kind of funny and awesome.  And then I
> realized what others have pointed out, which is that the first book is
> a crime story and the second book is a spy story and Gene is taking
> genres apart to show he can.
>   
I liked "Nightside" too, with Silk as Father Brown and Auk as his 
Flambeau. Have you seen the article "Five Steps Towards Briah", which 
continues to track the genres of the next two books 
(http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/jlaidlow/ultan/briah.htm/poti)? The next two 
books (for me) are a political thriller and a war story. The article has 
a slightly different take.

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