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I'm listening to Peter F Hamilton's Void trilogy on audiobook during my drive into work in the morning and it's a curiously mixed bag, on the one hand he does a really good job of inventing an interesting future society, seeing how the Commonwealth has changed from the Commonwealth Duology is fun and Hamilton is really really good at thinking up cool future weapons and writing exciting future violence. But on the other this guy seriously needs to get loving laid more often or at the very least have a wank before he sits down and starts writing, it's uncomfortable as hell sitting and listening to a man with an epic voice reading the disturbing level of detail Peter F Hamilton feels the need to describe when writing a scene about the female protagonist enjoying a romantic evening loving twenty of the bodies of the guy she's dating (who has a single mind spread over a number of physical body). The multi-body guy doesn't really serve any purpose to the story, he's introduced solely so that Hamilton can explain the multi-life concept, and that never pops up anywhere else in the narrative, so the only reason he seems to exist is that Hamilton felt that either A: Gang Bangs are great fun and the reason of the world is missing out by not having them more often, or B: Hamilton was casually browsing gang-bang porn while writing the novel and found his muse that way. What the hell is it about Sci-Fi authors and feeling the need to broadcast their sexual hang-ups in print?
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Sep 15, 2009 15:46
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I'm not saying that Araminta is pointless, her plotline is clearly going somewhere, i meant the whole Mr Bowvey "Here are my 20 penises". He's there so Araminta can find out she loves a good gangbang and then she runs off to keep him out of danger at the start of the second I don't see why Araminta's plot points in the first book couldn't be covered if she'd just stayed renovating apartments.
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Sep 15, 2009 22:00
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The multi-life concept isn't terrible and Bowvey running his business staffed entirely by himself covers it nicely. Writing a scene in which we get to hear about how wonderful Araminta finds it to be going down on Mr Bowvey whilst simultaneously being hosed both anally and vaginally by him (with 20 more of his bodies standing naked and waiting around the bed) is just Peter F Hamilton having a wank in print. I'm just really disappointed in him, i read the first Nights Dawn book and thought he had some good ideas and a purile obsession with writing needlessly pornographic sex scenes, read the Commonwealth saga on the advice of a girl i'm friends with and thought that'd he'd grown out of it and matured as an author and this just feels like a big step backwards. Long story short Peter F Hamilton needs an editor who will tell him to go find a psychiatrist or else twenty prostitutes and get his poo poo sorted out as it's seriously hurting his work, the sex scenes read like something a 17 year old would put in his first attempt at writing a novel in order to prove he's mature and edgy. Aussie Crawl fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 15, 2009 |
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Sep 15, 2009 23:42
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