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It's almost a gender thing too...I think guys relate to Neverness right away---Mallory & Bardo's comraderie, the fight in the Master Pilot's Bar, lightships, the skating competition and transition to Pilots. When Mallory returns from the Solid State Entity it is all neatly summed as "The testosterone fever".. ...I'm not kidding though...Even though Mallory's meeting with the Entity describes some AWESOME new concepts, storywise: it doesn't make much sense at first, but it will! It's very important to understand how the Manifold works--and you are getting alot of the "mechanics" there. As soon as they head way out west to the Alaloi the character developement really gets cooking. Mallory is a very rough-edged character, who makes his share of mistakes--so it can be hard to like him at times.
Alot of women prefer A Requiem for Homo Sapiens for the brilliant poetic writting-style and ultra-sensitive Danlo, not to mention his tragic love story and horrible battle w/the twisted Anti-hero Hanuman li Tosh. However, it is essential to read Neverness first to understand the three "Requiem" books that follow.
I got into Neverness right away as I saw alot of Mallory's brashness in myself not to mention that my blood-brother Rodney is Bardo, my dad spent zillions of years away on business trips, and my mom acts exactly like Moira...(So I said OMG there's my disfunctional family right there, in a nut shell!! )
These books can move at paces we're not used to, but it becomes great when you get to understand the pacing. There is SO much new information being thrown at you in Neverness it can be hard to realize that a story is going on at the same time. Once you get used to all the new concepts, the new "state-of-the Universe", the huge, huge scope of what Zindell is doing and the eerieness of being flung so far into a bleak and twisted future...you'll be just fine. Then all the great philosophical discussions, intrigue and brand new eerienesses (is that a word?) all begin! It also helps to hang around "The Hangar", 'cause you can run into a few of DZ's terms and concepts being used fairly commonly, then they become old friends when you run into them in your ing...
I know how you feel LG, I was on the verge of tossing A Game of Thrones at page 130 but when I read 20 more pages, WHAM!!!
I got into TC right away, as well--It might just be a male-thing of IDing or clicking with an angry "hard to love" loner, right away... And now Danlo looked in that direction, too. He remembered that snowy owls mate in the darkest part of deep winter, and so along with this beautiful white bird perched in a tree a hundred feet away, he turned to face the sea as he watched and waited.
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