Salt - Adam Roberts

Finnished reading Salt by Adam Roberts this evening on the bus ride home, an enjoyable and action packed sci-fi novel which draws plenty of parralells with the current "War on Terror" - neither side of the war were entirely in the wrong, and yet, neither side were in the right either; each side had valid reasons for their actions but neither were innocent. I enjoyed the alternating naratives of the two main characters; watching the story unfold from both sides of the story, seeing how ones different upbringing, beliefs, culture ( and the lack of knowing others beliefs and culture ) clash, cause friction, and ultimately bring upon war.

Instead of waiting till new recently shipped Amazon order arrives, I've gone and started reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell", hopefully I won't take ages reading this as I'm really eager to jump on the new Abarat book from Clive Barker ( part of the order ). Still, the more I read, the further through my giant pile of unread books I get...

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