Jet Silver
DNF three and a half hours in because seriously, that is entirely enough rape. I'm done.
Was hoping the clunkiness caused by the translation might be overcome by audio, and indeed it is less flat. But the problems I had with it apparently go beyond the translation, and this world just isn't for me.
DNF three and a half hours in because seriously, that is entirely enough rape. I'm done.
Was hoping the clunkiness caused by the translation might be overcome by audio, and indeed it is less flat. But the problems I had with it apparently go beyond the translation, and this world just isn't for me.
Abandoned page 125 before I expired of toxic dudeliness.
Abandoned page 125 before I expired of toxic dudeliness.
Abandoned at page 50. The writing style grated for me, and not even the presence of a wolfhound could save it. Not a criticism, just a style mismatch.
Although, there did seem to be enough sneering at others' art tastes for one reason or another that if it hadn't been the voice that made me put it down, it might have been that.
Abandoned at page 50. The writing style grated for me, and not even the presence of a wolfhound could save it. Not a criticism, just a style mismatch.
Although, there did seem to be enough sneering at others' art tastes for one reason or another that if it hadn't been the voice that made me put it down, it might have been that.
Abandoned at page 106. Some of the writing is lovely but the loosely connected short stories thing very rarely works for me, and I'm bored.
Abandoned at page 106. Some of the writing is lovely but the loosely connected short stories thing very rarely works for me, and I'm bored.
Giving up on this for now. Too dystopic for the moment, which comes through a lot stronger in the book than it does in the film.
Giving up on this for now. Too dystopic for the moment, which comes through a lot stronger in the book than it does in the film.
Abandoned at 50%. I was looking for stories of one man living in the desert, and I liked those parts. The social commentary, thoughts on policy and infrastructure, and to be honest the gore got rather too much. I'm sure Mr Abbey was quite socially liberal for his time, but the attitudes to women and anyone else who isn't a white able bodied manly man were more than I wanted to spend any more time with.
I was working with the audio copy, and it's possible I would have pushed through if I had a physical copy - I could have skipped the chapters about how cars are evil, etc, (sure, but that battle is lost) and the chapter about how to fix the Navajos (just yikes all the way), and then perhaps the voice wouldn't have began to sound so smug and self satisfied after four or five hours of this.
This one's just not for me, but if anyone knows of desert stories without too much in the way of regressive politics, I'd love the rec.
Abandoned at 50%. I was looking for stories of one man living in the desert, and I liked those parts. The social commentary, thoughts on policy and infrastructure, and to be honest the gore got rather too much. I'm sure Mr Abbey was quite socially liberal for his time, but the attitudes to women and anyone else who isn't a white able bodied manly man were more than I wanted to spend any more time with.
I was working with the audio copy, and it's possible I would have pushed through if I had a physical copy - I could have skipped the chapters about how cars are evil, etc, (sure, but that battle is lost) and the chapter about how to fix the Navajos (just yikes all the way), and then perhaps the voice wouldn't have began to sound so smug and self satisfied after four or five hours of this.
This one's just not for me, but if anyone knows of desert stories without too much in the way of regressive politics, I'd love the rec.
DNF at page 64 in Dec 2018.
DNF. Just not the book for me.
Could probably get past the repetitive boring extremely detailed descriptions of every outfit glimpsed by one of our narrators, if the sociology and politics believably matched the world building.
DNF. Just not the book for me.
Could probably get past the repetitive boring extremely detailed descriptions of every outfit glimpsed by one of our narrators, if the sociology and politics believably matched the world building.
DNF at page 80ish.
Abandoned early in. Too close to home for me from an abelist perspective. This is not a critism of the book or author; I just don't want to read it.
Abandoned early in. Too close to home for me from an abelist perspective. This is not a critism of the book or author; I just don't want to read it.