Vaneglory (Paperback)

by George Turner (Author)

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Paperback: 339 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / General; Reprint edition (April 1 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0380778858
ISBN-13: 978-0380778850
Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.2 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 182 g

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One of the few survivors of a destroyed human race, Will Santley of the newly emerging Ethical Culture is caught up in the mysterious biopolitical affairs of radioactive immortals and must remember his frightening past in order to survive.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Awful writing and bad story dominate this book, May 8 2005

By	Stewart Winter (Metcalfe, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

Easily the worst book I've read in a long time. Firstly, everything that happens gets undone. If someone gets killed, you can be sure they'll come back to life before long. Most of the characters have accented speech, but one of the characters has his spelled out phonetically making it needlessly hard to read. Presumably this is done to distinguish this character as the only sympathetic character in the book. Surely a good writer could accomplish this in a hundred better ways.

The writing weaves from first person to third person. In one section, the writing is done in first person and then about half a chapter later that person acts in a way completely contradictory to the way he had been thinking six pages earlier. Sure it's nice to have surprises in a book, but writing in first person and then having characters act against their thought patterns is a pathetic way to go about it. This kind of incoherent writing is typical of the entire novel.

Finally, the author tries to convince us to read his previous (probably equally awful) books by attaching footnotes to characters and events referring to his other works.

The book's biggest virtue is that it is short. I can only assume that Mr. Turner was on a deadline.

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