Finished Gentleman's Game today. I'm now sure that he made the assassinations anti-climactic on purpose, since he did the same thing a second time. This really focuses the reader's attention on the internal maneuvering going on back home. Overall, I think the book suffers from starting out as a comic--you can sort of tell that as a comic he would've cut the story by about 1/3, and the strain starts to show by the last 80 pages. Too bad, since what came before was really good--about as good as the Queen and Country comics it's based on.
I've also started on Io's story in the Metamorphoses, but I haven't read enough yet to say anything about it.
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