Oh I forgot that one too
Okay Espedair Street, Crow Road, Complicity and Walking on Glass are good. Wasp Factory is okay as is Transition, and everything else is a bit poor, in fact some of them (Whit, Song of Stone, The Business) are fucking awful.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 12:44, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

shit, agreeing with Al again.
Yeah, but Whit, Song of Stone etc are all later, which was what I was saying.

Personally I think his heart wasn't in the non-SF stuff later on. Plus, he keeps trying to write different types of book to see if he can. Song Of Stone is basically just a weird Song of Ice and Fire type thing. Not good at all.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 12:46, Reply)

What annoys me is that he's basically tried to rewrite Crow Road on two other occasions, which jsut smacks of laziness
He has actually said that he views writing as a job he has to force himself to do, rather than something he does for love. But I get the impression this applies less to his Sci-Fi stuff as he really puts in a lot of attention to detail with that.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 12:48, Reply)

i can see why he's dying of an aggressive cancer now, leading to an agonising death

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Yeah, I don't come across as very sympathetic.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 13:00, Reply)

Whit? SHIT more like!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Apr 2013, 13:03, Reply)