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And now, a new segment I shall call 'Books That Looked Interesting But That I Then Said Nope To Upon Discovering a Fatal Flaw.' I'll make it more concise later.

 

I saw this in a Waldenbooks downtown and thought 'Hey, ok, looks maybe not like the best book ever, but Regency England + sci-fi? Yeeeeeeeah!'

I put it down after skimming it and finding there was a character called "Mr. Dercy." Come on, people. Come on.

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  1. erikaMarch 12, 2011 at 8:49 AM

    Reallllly?

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  2. Reading RamboMarch 12, 2011 at 9:44 AM

    I promise. You can search it on Amazon.

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  3. solasolettaMarch 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM

    I think the biggest problem is that the heroine doesn't seem to be wearing a bra.

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  4. Reading RamboMarch 18, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    @solasoletta Ahahaha I hadn't even noticed that. Strike two!

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  5. ibmillerApril 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM

    Oh, but Dercy is actually a gay magician...

    Actually, I really disliked this book. The first one was like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell lite, combined with Dickens and James and Bronte plagiarism, but this one was just rambly, annoying, and uninteresting.

    I liked Mary Robinette Kowal's Shades of Milk and Honey way better.

    Plus the aforementioned Jonathan Strange. Which is one of the few books of the last decade that I will say is actually a masterpiece.

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  6. Reading RamboApril 2, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    @ibmiller Does not help if he's gay. I'm not reading a book where there's a character named 'Dercy.' Although it does help that it's a crap book.

    I have two copies of JS, and I've always avoided it because it's soooooooo long, but you're the second person who's recently said it's probably worth it, so I might do it.

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