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A review by gilmae
Resistance by John Birmingham
3.0
Look, it was all right. I mean, I inhaled it, so it was clearly a book I could tolerate....
Shit, way to not damn with faint praise.
If you can read garbage like Jim Butcher or any of the urban fantasy books with edgy, tattooed women with mystical powers and an unlikely melee weapon on the cover, you will probably be into this. I'd like to think Birmingham is taking the piss a little out of those books.
What I really want is a sequel to Stalin's Hammer. Turns out I like genre books that suddenly become 70s era paranoid american spy thriller movies. Cf The Last Ringbearer.
But did you totally see how I ripped on an entire market of long running genre series like a snob while reviewing this kind of lightweight, tawdry trash. S'ok, Birmingham is not exactly about the litz, he'll forgive me and probably discard me from the 10,000.
Shit, way to not damn with faint praise.
If you can read garbage like Jim Butcher or any of the urban fantasy books with edgy, tattooed women with mystical powers and an unlikely melee weapon on the cover, you will probably be into this. I'd like to think Birmingham is taking the piss a little out of those books.
What I really want is a sequel to Stalin's Hammer. Turns out I like genre books that suddenly become 70s era paranoid american spy thriller movies. Cf The Last Ringbearer.
But did you totally see how I ripped on an entire market of long running genre series like a snob while reviewing this kind of lightweight, tawdry trash. S'ok, Birmingham is not exactly about the litz, he'll forgive me and probably discard me from the 10,000.