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The Book of Elsewhere
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China Mieville is an author I can take or leave. It took me until about the 10% mark to decide this collaboration with Keanu Reeves was the latter and a further 10% before it was clear there were better things I could be reading and I DNFed.
Terrible prose, a confusing narrative and characters dropped en masse with little or no explanation are just a few of The Book of Elsewhere's problems. A lot of the time it reads more like a script than a novel. I mean...
'A room, full of violence to come. Then with the nasty white light of LEDs. Then a man came in and sat between the metal lockers. He took a machine from his pack and ran protocols on it. Alone awhile, he stared at its screen. His comrades followed him in at last. The man kept on with his preparations.'
That's just the first paragraph, but there's more like it and worse.
Sorry. This one wasn't for me, but thanks anyway to NetGalley, Del Rey and the authors for an advance copy.
Terrible prose, a confusing narrative and characters dropped en masse with little or no explanation are just a few of The Book of Elsewhere's problems. A lot of the time it reads more like a script than a novel. I mean...
'A room, full of violence to come. Then with the nasty white light of LEDs. Then a man came in and sat between the metal lockers. He took a machine from his pack and ran protocols on it. Alone awhile, he stared at its screen. His comrades followed him in at last. The man kept on with his preparations.'
That's just the first paragraph, but there's more like it and worse.
Sorry. This one wasn't for me, but thanks anyway to NetGalley, Del Rey and the authors for an advance copy.
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Jul 28, 2024 01:34PM
This makes me feel better about myself. I got a sample. The first few paragraphs I felt like I just learned how to read and didn’t understand anything. Will not purchase.
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