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Old 07-18-2008, 12:17 PM   #27
Perry Winkle
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
Are you able to keep all the characters straight?
I really didn't have much problem. Stephenson's characters tend to be pretty well differentiated. I read Magician by Raymond Feist (the first thing I've read by him, and the first he'd written) a couple weeks ago, and it started pushing my limit on remembering characters because so many of them were incredibly similar: What's the difference between Meecham and Martin before the last quarter of the book? Nothing.

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Originally Posted by Griff View Post
That second book got a lot better about 2/3 of the way through. The letter format was a bit tedious. I'm hoping book 3 is written more like book 1.
Book 3 is a more dynamic read. Few letters, more action, lots of plot lines tied up.
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