The Lies of Locke Lamora: A Compleat Review

[ohilya]

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[ex_chrisbil]

It was awesome.

[ex_chrisbil]

I loved this book when I read it last year. Absolutely loved it.

Jay Tomio

[ohilya]

And think: That was just book ONE.

[mastadge]

I hate you all. Especially you, and especially you.

[guipago]

do not.. You know you don't.

And I know why. :P

[mastadge]

Do you know something I don't know?

[guipago]

Sure do and you can't make me share :P

[countrycousin]

Thank you . . .

[ohilya]

Quite welcome.

I hope someone reads this, and ignoring any mistakes I might miss (because my editor refuses to read my review until she's read the book), says "Be our book reviewer for this magazine!"

I am academic and a wordwoozer! And p1mp the Lynch & Stover macdaddies!

[redactormajor]

You write:

"Mr.Stross will be have someone in fair England hand him a copy of Lynch’s novel, and declare that he ought to do little else for several days but read, and wonder that a heroic fantasy novel with a distinct sense of levity might actually find itself in existence."

Isn't there a distinction between the high fantasy Stross refers to, and the heroic fantasy that you'd have him wonder about?

[ohilya]

You know what I can't believe?

That I didn't catch the grammatical errors in there. Hot staggering fuck.

The boundaries between high and heroic fantasy are thin distinctions that are arguably there to provide borders, but there's nothing that says one cannot impinge upon the other should it so feel like doing so.

[scott_lynch]

Excellent! Now start pimping it to small children. On street corners!

[ohilya]

If you hide the crack between the pages, the 5-0 will never know that this is in fact more than just a book, it's a drug...

All I need now is Gary Olson and some Catholic high-school girls.