Reviews and Comments

I get why the blurb on the front page calls him "the poet laureate of medicine". And you know what? I want to write like him! Sure his terminology is sometimes coloured by outmoded ways of neurology, but in essence, I want to write about my interests with the depth of an Oliver Sacks. And if it means I gotta quote books from 1874 in my goddamn homework about the Neckar valley, like I did years ago. It almost makes me angry that this almost certainly is not the way to publish with the threat of an academic career in my back.

Somehow I'm Breq. I'm alienated from this society. I'm Angry. I have a wish to kill Anaander Minaai. Yet I don't have superhuman abilities. Yet I don't have Presger Translators as my potential allies. Yet I don't have a gun designed to pierce any armour for 1.11 m. Oh do I wish I had tho!

This renowned book turns into an insect-like page turner once you manage to ignore renowned writer Dan Brown's peculiar penchant for verbose and repetitive description, and odd similes. Keep good watch over your brain cells as they get bombarded with conspiratorial narratives of the utmost quality.

Re-reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy really makes the seams of Adam's and-then story telling obvious. And then there's the answer to life, the universe and everything. And then there's a president. And then there's a depressed robot

Really don't quite understand why teenage me was so enamoured with this book

It's a fast read, it's somewhat witty and self aware, but the characters are largely dipshits unaware of the harm they are doing. It's definitely a book only a white man could have written, but at the same time I don't hate it.

Eeh, it's an odd book

Tales a bit to get into, but then a gripping read. I can see why it's a classic, but I wish the author had been less of an anthropologist, and less bioessentialist at a bunch of points. The main narrator is unfortunately misogynistic, and his narrative decisions and views get rarely challenged by the other narrators even tho it could very well have been