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Do you think the characters wait too long to act?

#1 User is offline   ColtaineDidNothingWrong 

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Posted 08 July 2022 - 10:54 PM

Came across a few less than generous reviews of this book, and one common complaint I saw made me wonder what others here think about it. Namely, the complaint is as follows:

"By the time I finished the book, I realized the people in the whole series have no clue what preventive measures are. They all know beforehand that the bad things are coming to them, and nobody lifts a finger to do anything in advance. No kind of preparations until shit really hits the fan. As soon as it happens, people finally start acting - in the very last moment, doing great sacrifices; most of these sacrifices could be easily prevented if somebody bothered to do something (fairly obvious and logical things, too) before the crisis started."




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This post has been edited by ColtaineDidNothingWrong: 08 July 2022 - 10:59 PM

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Posted 08 July 2022 - 11:06 PM

Sounds like the human condition.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
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Posted 13 July 2022 - 04:04 AM

Considering how many of them are, what, a hundred thousand years old? Yeah, that seems like a fair assessment.

View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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