Wheres the red magic marker?
I have mixed feelings about Jack Bu Brul’s Vulcan’s Forge. On the one hand, this is Du Brul’s first novel. As such, it suffers from some of the ailments that many first-timers suffer. Some first timers seem to have run-of-the-mouth syndrome. Where they think they get paid by the word. There are long sections that are just plain boring. With way too much emphasis on long, drawn out descriptions. When page after page is dedicated to describing how a scene looks, or how a person feels, it’s just way too much. Another problem is the same information being conveyed over and over, by different characters, as they speak to others. This book is in need of a giant red magic marker to cross out all the excess verbiage. On the other hand, the story is definitely NOT boring. In fact, it’s one of the wildest journeys I’ve enjoyed in a long time. With many facets, covering many decades, and locales, it definitely keeps you wondering what will happen next. So, I was willing to put up with the long bo
