What is the use of a recipe? A recipe is a teaching tool, a guide, a point of departure. Follow it exactly the first time you make the dish. As you make it again and again, you will change it, massage it to fit your own taste and aesthetic. Eventually it will become your own personal recipe - Jacques Pepin
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Henry Martyn by L. Neil Smith
While Browsing at Hastings one day, I saw a book by L. Neil Smith that looked like great swashbuckling piracy and adventure. However, it was the second in a series, which was nowhere apparent, so I had to wait until I was able to find the first book before I could buy it. Henry Martyn was that book.
Well, after reading somewhere between 75 and 100 pages, I realized that this one didn't live up to the expectations generated by the blurb on the back either. It seemed to be written in the space opera genre, but I just couldn't empathize with any of the characters and nothing exciting was happening, so I gave up. Maybe y'all will have better luck.
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