Summer reading. Reading lists.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by glatt

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.

Originally Posted by Griff

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.