Thought I'd re-read Gateways to prepare for the release of Crisscross (assuming Amazon.co.uk gets its act together and updates its Crisscross page. How hard can it be to buy something?! Is Crisscross just a joke? Is it actually never going to be released?! Okay, rant over!)
Anyway, I'm liking the book more than I expected. I mean, obviously I liked it first time around - it's by The Man after all - but it never got inside me the way other Repairman Jack books have. This time though... well it just seems to be working better for me the second time around.
Earlier today, I got to the bit where Jack is trying to figure out a French Press for his coffee and scoffs at the idea of ensuring the water is at the exact required temperature. What would Duncan Lathram think about that attitude, I wonder?

I loved Gateways. I think it did a great job of showing how much the otherness had taken root in jack's life.

I loved Gateways. I think it did a great job of showing how much the otherness had taken root in jack's life.

You're going to love CRISSCROSS as well.

Ken V.

Thought I'd re-read Gateways to prepare for the release of Crisscross (assuming Amazon.co.uk gets its act together and updates its Crisscross page. How hard can it be to buy something?! Is Crisscross just a joke? Is it actually never going to be released?! Okay, rant over!)
Anyway, I'm liking the book more than I expected. I mean, obviously I liked it first time around - it's by The Man after all - but it never got inside me the way other Repairman Jack books have. This time though... well it just seems to be working better for me the second time around.
Earlier today, I got to the bit where Jack is trying to figure out a French Press for his coffee and scoffs at the idea of ensuring the water is at the exact required temperature. What would Duncan Lathram think about that attitude, I wonder?

I think GATEWAYS is different in that we didn't see one of Jack's mundane fix-its as a counterpoint to his dealing with the Otherness. Still, plenty good characterization, plenty good action, amd it was nice to see Jack's dad is carved from the same hard wood as his son. And as Ken V. says, you're gonna =love= CRISSCROSS.

Thought I'd re-read Gateways to prepare for the release of Crisscross (assuming Amazon.co.uk gets its act together and updates its Crisscross page. How hard can it be to buy something?! Is Crisscross just a joke? Is it actually never going to be released?! Okay, rant over!)
Anyway, I'm liking the book more than I expected. I mean, obviously I liked it first time around - it's by The Man after all - but it never got inside me the way other Repairman Jack books have. This time though... well it just seems to be working better for me the second time around.
Earlier today, I got to the bit where Jack is trying to figure out a French Press for his coffee and scoffs at the idea of ensuring the water is at the exact required temperature. What would Duncan Lathram think about that attitude, I wonder?

I think GATEWAYS is different in that we didn't see one of Jack's mundane fix-its as a counterpoint to his dealing with the Otherness. Still, plenty good characterization, plenty good action, and it was nice to see Jack's dad is carved from the same hard wood as his son. And as Ken V. says, you're gonna =love= CRISSCROSS.

i'm sure you're both right.

Well I finished re-reading Gateways, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well worth reading again. I think that I sometimes read new FPW books too fast and therefore don't enjoy them enough simply because... well, because they're new FPW books I suppose.
When Crisscross arrives I promise to read it slowly and fully appreciate it. Then I'll read it again just to make sure!

Well I finished re-reading Gateways, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well worth reading again. I think that I sometimes read new FPW books too fast and therefore don't enjoy them enough simply because... well, because they're new FPW books I suppose.
When Crisscross arrives I promise to read it slowly and fully appreciate it. Then I'll read it again just to make sure!

Paul, you will find it =very= hard to keep that vow. But good luck!

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I just finished GATEWAYS for the first time. I loved it! I finished it and yelled "Thank you, Paul" out loud! FPW, did you hear it? Did you feel a psychic nudge around 9:00 PM on Sunday, Dec. 5?

I'm loving the incorporation of the chew wasps, a very NIGHTWORLD phenomenon, into the RJ novels. Makes me wonder if NIGHTWORLD will undergo any revisions to add references to RJ's adventures that hadn't existed, at least on the printed page, when NIGHTWORLD was first published.

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**** GATEWAYS SPOILER ALERT****

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I just finished GATEWAYS for the first time. I loved it! I finished it and yelled "Thank you, Paul" out loud! FPW, did you hear it? Did you feel a psychic nudge around 9:00 PM on Sunday, Dec. 5?

I'm loving the incorporation of the chew wasps, a very NIGHTWORLD phenomenon, into the RJ novels. Makes me wonder if NIGHTWORLD will undergo any revisions to add references to RJ's adventures that hadn't existed, at least on the printed page, when NIGHTWORLD was first published.

Speaking of Night World updates... Did anyone notice that Ralph (is that the name of his corvair?) is gone in Conspiracies and returns in Night World? I have not read the rest of the RJ series, so I don't know if he gets his old Corvair back, but I could swear I remember him having it in Night World.

Any input??

-Rip