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Move along, there's nothing to see here...

On the day I finished reading The Accidental Time Machine, I got a used copy of Tad Williams' City of Golden Shadow in the mail, woohoo! I'm on page 80 of the book and I really enjoy it. I'm glad it's nice and long so I can savor it... and then I'll savor the three other 700 page books that come next in the series.

The Accidental Time Machine was not my type of book. Haldeman's style can be funny at times, but his dialogue can get confusing since he likes to omit "he said, she said" and just lets you figure it out. There were too many obscenities that had nothing to do with the story. Tsk tsk!! The ending was getting really exciting with some awesome foreshadowing, but I thought the final "explanation" for it was complete trite, and the resolution after the climax was... blagh.

Just my opinion of course. :-P

I've been thinking about buying a C4 3D Engine license... but it's $200, which is quite a lot. Still, it looks very nice. I'll have to look for more demos first and explore their wiki a bit more. My other option would be to spend $100 and upgrade my 3D GameStudio, which includes a very nice engine, but I don't like 3DGS's C++ integration much... still, it's $100 less and I already have experience with it... but I'd like some more C++ power... I can't decide.