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title: 'The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2)'
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<b>Author:</b> Jack Vance</br>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/385672932?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss">See in goodreads</a>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>I had not read Jack Vance in a while, and it's my first time reading it in english. It's the first time I prefer the translated work.<br /><br />The needlessly old-fashioned vocabulary (why scold when you can objurgate!) makes for a difficult read, and the plot is thin enough already. The one-dimensionality of the characters, specially the main one, is explained away on a thin motivational basis.<br /><br />Of course it also has the classic Vance world-building, a feeling that it all makes sense and is part of a much larger "everything", which is the main redeeming factor.</p>
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