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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds.
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 17:19:40 -0400
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On 9/5/24 11:52 PM, Titus G wrote:
> On 5/09/24 01:14, Tony Nance wrote:
>> On 9/4/24 1:56 AM, Titus G wrote:
>>> Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds. 2012
> snip
>>
>> I am so glad you liked this. I read this back in May, and didn't enjoy
>> it as much as you did. The setting and science were great. My main
>> problems were with the characters, but since the next one seems to share
>> very few characters (if any) with this one, I plan to give it a try.
> 
> I am guessing the characters were too shallow for you or maybe you did
> not like Geoffrey, the simple elephant man protagonist? The cousins were
> unusual 


You have indeed guessed correctly - shallow as a contact lens case. I 
think, except for Geoffrey, every major character (and many minor 
characters) were some combination of self-absorbed, self-righteous, 
impulsive, unsympathetic, True Believer jerks.

Geoffrey was fine, though he tends to accept/agree that every negative 
thing in the universe is his fault.


but while the plot was unravelling, I was more interested in the
> setting and 'science'. 

Agreed - the setting and the science were wonderful.
- Tony


(The fantasy book read before this, The House in
> the Cerulean Sea, was 95% relationships so perhaps I was glad to escape
> that atmosphere.)