Review: Great Collection
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
Having read Roadside Picnic (Rediscovered Classics) [Kindle Edition] Arkady Strugatsky (Author), Boris Strugatsky (Author), Ursula K. Le Guin (Foreword), Olena Bormashenko (Translator), this Sand series puts me in mind of that book which I read two or three years ago.  Instead of going into the "zone" looking for treasures, here the men are sand diving looking for treasures from the past.Of Hugh Howey's writings, my favorite is Half Way Home.  Loved that book.  I will pass on the Sand Series after reading The Belt of the Buried Gods (40 Pages) as Howey  leads me to believe that he has an unhealthy (in my opinion) interest in the underground, especially after the never-ending silo series.  I think he enjoys terrifying the claustrophobes among us.  I wonder how many MRIs he's had.Update June 2014:  I came back to read more.  Oh God, will this book never end?  I think I'm reading Yesterday's Gone and I wish it was (were?) gone - for good.  I think I saw something about zombies which was a HUGE turnoff and now it seems the creatures are aliens.  I'm sick of this book.  It seems that there are four or five stories going on.  I don't know when one ends and another begins other than Chapter numbers.  I thought all of the stories would come together to be joined and make some sense of the apparent apocalypse but after reading other reviews I have come to the conclusion that they are all disjointed.  It appears to be like a group of drunks or druggies all telling different stories at the same time. As a result, I have reduced the number of stars from four to three.  I'm less than 20% through and I can't go on with this book.  Only fair in my estimation as far as I'm concerned.  There are too many GOOD books out there to be read!