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You guys might be interested in this review (which I happen to agree with):

http://bookexposed.com/blog/2008/09/29/altered-carbon/

He is great but a little wordy.

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i would not have thought it was over wordy based on my reading but the evidence is there.  i really enjoyed the book so i guess i overlooked the extra prose.  i would still give it a "must read" tho.  that's quite a good review and an interesting site.

is that your own site or someone you know?  the name looks similar to your handle.  i ask because we've been looking to add reviews to WWEnd for some time but we're not sure yet how we're going to do it.  nobody has submitted any reviews yet and we've been wondering if we should just link to existing reviews or try to get permission/rights to post existing reviews here in the forum so people can discuss.  we'd link them from the novel and author pages to the thread here in the books forum so they'd be easy to find.  ideally we'd like to get more members that have reviews "in the can" to sign up and post them here themselves.  they could get a little more mileage from them and it might be a good way to get a little publicity for their sites.

i'd be interested to hear ideas if anybody's got 'em.

thanks for the link!

-dave

bookexposed happens to belong to a friend who is also an author.
We have found most reviewers / review sites don't care if you link to them since it's more traffic for them too.

As long as you link to them you could probably copy the entire review.

The biggest problem I see with on line reviews is they are:

1. too short
2. it takes too long to turnaround one (weeks or months from initial contact to posting)
3. written by people who are sometimes very biased or unknowledgeable
4. like to nitpick over minor details (I had one reviewer who spent most of the review hating my cover art!)

btw- I have found so far the best way to increase traffic is to blog, blog, blog. That seems to get more hits than anything.

example of what I mean:

http://www.frontstreetreviews.com/View.html

Yeah, that's a great book!  Totally blew me away.  I've loaned mine out several times and everyone so far has loved it too.  Of course, I'm careful who I loan it to.  It's a bit rough for some folks.

Can I get an Amen?  Thank you for your support Mr. Science!

Forever War is really good too and I've heard The Android's Dream is another good one.  You've got some great reading coming your way.

@whargoul:  I've been pondering a re-read myself.  Looking for something gritty and visceral.  I just started A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger and it's satisfying that itch for me right now. It's the sequel to When Gravity Fails.  Another book I'd recommend if you're looking for more action and violence.

Exactly.  There are some graphic scenes of violence, torture and rape and the like and the language is rather colorful as well.  Please note that this is not a criticism of the book or the author.  The story takes place in the seedy underbelly of society with scum of the earth characters where the meaning of death has changed and the depictions are in keeping.  I ony mention that because some folks just don't like that kind of story and might like to know in advance that it has those elements.  If I was recommending a Xanth novel I'd be warning you about the puns.