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kateofmind's review
4.0
This book should be the most exciting of the quartet, but it's actually a bit on the dull side, with every quotidian scene pointing to a more interesting one that is taking place or has been taking place offscreen, as it were.
arachne_reads's review
5.0
I inhaled this book. At this point, I don't know what else to say about Wolfe's prose, his masterful pacing (neither too introspective nor too action-heavy, but coming out with a superb balance), or his deft handling of human encounters with doubt, the sublime, or the incomprehensible. Wow. Next book, please.
rdominick's review
4.0
Calde was a hard slog, and I’m not really sure why. Sometime in the last weeks of December I just stopped reading. I found myself doing other things on the bus — listening to my ever-growing backlog of This American Life, or playing iPod games, or nothing. I rarely ate out alone, so that time for reading was gone as well. Today I finished the book off, and I have little enthusiasm for proceeding to the next, so I’m going to take a break from the series and read the book of Harry Dresden short stories I got for Christmas instead.
I will come back to the Long Sun, and after I read Exodus, post an actual review of the whole series. For the next little while, though, something else.
(Note: rating based on an earlier read of Calde -- in which I was totally consumed by the book and had none of the problems I had here.)
I will come back to the Long Sun, and after I read Exodus, post an actual review of the whole series. For the next little while, though, something else.
(Note: rating based on an earlier read of Calde -- in which I was totally consumed by the book and had none of the problems I had here.)
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