This book won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and has been a big influence on many other writers and people. Please don't be tempted to wikipedia it or otherwise ruin the story for yourselves. Enjoy :)
This book won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and has been a big influence on many other writers and people. Please don't be tempted to wikipedia it or otherwise ruin the story for yourselves. Enjoy :)
This book won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and has been a big influence on many other writers and people. Please don't be tempted to wikipedia it or otherwise ruin the story for yourselves. Enjoy :)
I thought it was only an ‘ok’ read really, I felt like giving up about half way through when the story didn't seem to be getting anywhere interesting and they weren't developing as characters but I am glad I finished it, I don't often give up on books but it has been known.
As a whole I found the book a loosely bundled selection of stories that only came together once in a while. The characters didn't seem to have much attachment to each other and I didn’t form any particular affection for them. Some of it seemed quite pointless, for instance, the inclusion of the 'warriors'... what purpose did that serve? How did it add to the story? I got a bit tired of the different fragmented settings.
The characters.... I didn't mind them. It was a bit odd the way the voices kept changing but I went with it. I didn't really like the fact that the person we started with, Yola, and the person we ended with, Emmanuel... neither of them was the 'I' in the story, nor did I like the way Yola just disappeared. Maybe the author was trying to convey the 'come and go'-ness of the population but it seemed a bit thoughtless to me. I didn’t mind the corruption of the English language… there wasn’t much that amused me but the ‘making a possibility with’ did because it seemed so suggestive.
I didn't receive it as a comedy at all.I was creeped out by the Vulk sections, appalled by what might’ve happened to Irina and also horrified by the 'chicken' sections. Sick birds are a phobia of mine. The only character I found vaguely amusing was the dog, actually, once I realised what those capitalised bits were about.
The romances..... not that gripping really.
The coincidences..... is the world, or was the world, of immigrant labour so small that you'd keep bumping into the same people .. even as places as far distant as Sheffield? I didn't believe in that little chain of events and how it all ended.
it was ok, not funny though.... and not a book I'd follow on by rushing to get another by the same author. I did enjoy it well enough for a quick unchallenging read but I'd only recommend it with a shrug.
This book won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and has been a big influence on many other writers and people. Please don't be tempted to wikipedia it or otherwise ruin the story for yourselves. Enjoy :)
