Thread:Sharol46/@comment-27914031-20180124174527

Hi again Sharol! I was halfway through enjoying "Ghost Soldiers," (Kindle version) and then I had an unexpected trip come up so I got the CD set for the audiobook of "Lock In" (Wil Wheaton narration) from the library to listen to on the long drive. I got through the first CD, and half of the second CD (out of 9 total). It's a very different kind of book....it strikes me as sort of a parody of a cheezy noir detective novel. At one point for example, there was a very long exchange of dialogue between the FBI guy and a city cop and the suspect in the case, exchanging a lot of "tough-guy" banter about jurisdiction, and the status of the suspect (under arrest or not), and it went on and on until it was just funny. And then it kept going on and on still more, to the point of tiresomeness. The book strikes me as the complete opposite of a Crichton novel, being heavy on dialogue and scant on action. Is the whole book that way, and is that the only one of Scalzi's books that is like that? Now that my trip is done, I'm glad to get back to "Ghost Soldiers" anyway! 