Dave Vicks
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AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THERE TANKS.Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs, 1945,2008. Discovered novel.
What do you think of it?AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THERE TANKS.Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs, 1945,2008. Discovered novel.
I didn't and still don't know what all the fuss is about. I think they're really basic stories with simplistic plots and an anthropomorphised robot. I just don't think they're worth the money and certainly not the money she (or her publisher) is charging for them, I won't be buying more. Admittedly I only read the first couple but that was enough for me.System Collapse by Martha Wells - I haven't much enjoyed the murderbot short stories but there was a full length one that was more to my liking.
This is also a full length one so here's hoping
I think it has to do with anti-social/introvert people that don't generally read science-fiction, relating very well to the "anthropomorphised robot", and the soft-science-fiction setting. As for price - agreed. Very expensive for what you are getting.I didn't and still don't know what all the fuss is about. I think they're really basic stories with simplistic plots and an anthropomorphised robot. I just don't think they're worth the money and certainly not the money she (or her publisher) is charging for them, I won't be buying more. Admittedly I only read the first couple but that was enough for me.
Actually I think they rate for me as low as I rate the Becky Chambers books, which I know many people also think are great but I think are again just really simplistic plots.
I think that's the cheat bit, I mean I am that person, but she's basically just taken an anti-social/introvert/autistic person and put them inside a tin box. If they weren't inside the tin box they'd be annoying but in the box they become cute. I guess it just doesn't work for me.I think it has to do with anti-social/introvert people that don't generally read science-fiction, relating very well to the "anthropomorphised robot", and the soft-science-fiction setting. As for price - agreed. Very expensive for what you are getting.
Wow, sounds bizarre before its time.AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THERE TANKS.Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs, 1945,2008. Discovered novel.
Got bored with it, started skimming to find anything interesting, failed so DNFSystem Collapse by Martha Wells - I haven't much enjoyed the murderbot short stories but there was a full length one that was more to my liking.
This is also a full length one so here's hoping
Is there a doggie in it?Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz
Interestingly the Koontz book I finished last night, Mr Murder from 1993 mentions near the end a character called Laura Shane.Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz
"Joe Carpenter's wife and two daughters perished with more than three hundred others in the crash of airlines Flight 353. But one year later, haunted by the loss of his family and desperate to find progress in life, he discovers that the official story of Flight 353 is a treacherous lie..."
System Collapse is the tail end of Network Effect. Fugitive Telemetry takes place before Network Effect. I would really recommend refreshing yourself on Network Effect before reading System Collapse. Just my opinion.I just finished reading Femmes Fae-Tales. It's a book of short stories which finds its origins with some of the female members of Chrons. This is not my genre and not my favorite format, but I actually found myself enjoying the stories. My favorite story was The Frog Prince by E. J. Tett (@Mouse) but several others caught my fancy as well.
If you like Fantasy:
Avoid --- Not Recommended --- Flawed --- Okay --- Good --- Recommended --- Shouldn’t be Missed
Right now I am reading System Collapse by Martha Wells. It is the seventh story in the Murderbot Diaries. This is a full length novel so its price is slightly less aggravating. But as always I have to really think if I want to pay a severe premium for a series that is great, but it is 4 to 10 times better than the books I get as part of Kindle Unlimited? Obviously I bit the bullet this time.
So far it is more frustrating than the earlier books because It appears that a lot of story is being assumed.***
***Okay, just to admit my age I went back to reacquaint myself a bit with story number six Fugitive Telemetry and my Kindle seems to think that for some reason I stopped reading at page 40?! Why did I stop? I don't remember being so frustrated I stopped reading. Maybe something wonderful came my way at the time? I'm not sure. So, okay, I am now reading Fugitive Telemetry maybe that will change my frustration.
One of the characters in Sole Survivor is called Barbara Christman. She was a bookseller who won the use of her name in a competition.Interestingly the Koontz book I finished last night, Mr Murder from 1993 mentions near the end a character called Laura Shane.
Looking through his back catalogue on Fantastic Fiction I see that name being a main character in a book from 1988! (Lightning)
No, but there should have been. Frank seems like a very lonely man in the first 3/4 of the book.Is there a doggie in it?
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