Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Mightier than the Sword

Being book 5 in the Clifton Chronicles. Jane Smiley's multi-generational trilogy is so full of characters it becomes hard to keep track of them all. Archer solves this issue by regularly killing off his people. Since book 4 ended with a bang that seemingly involved his entire cast it seemed obvious that he had to come up with some sort of rescue or he'd have no one to write about.

Write what you know is a standard dictum. Given his checkered past what this author knows has become a thing I no longer feel comfortable sharing. The machinations of Bond or Wall Street hold no charms for this reader. Having run out of likeable characters to follow I've lost interest in reading further in this series. However as usual Archer leaves the reader with a cliff-hanger ending. Since I'm borrowing this series from a library and I've already read the first couple chapters of book six....

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