Sylvia Chi

There were many parts of this book that I found problematic (the absurdly flat, semi-misogynistically-written female characters; the incoherent critique of television) but could have chalked up to interesting ambiguities until I read the Afterword and Coda by the author, who turns out to have written this polemic/parable as an ill-considered response to criticism (you know, censorship by women's-libbers and homosexuals) and new media.

Otherwise, Bradbury is clearly a virtuosic writer in a showoffy way, but the story pacing and structure is pretty strained. Although Captain Beatty is a pretty terrifically villainous bad guy.

It's a classic and everything, but I felt that there was no need for such pussyfooting around killing the suitors, and the ending was real abrupt. I mean, I love Homer, but I would have ended it differently.

Not sure if I really need to read this, but Joan Acocella's review in the New Yorker was so irritating that I feel I ought to so that I can at least hypothetically form a rebuttal.

I'm very disturbed that Goodreads has capitalized the V. in the title.

ETA: They've fixed it!

I just spent some time reading the Wikipedia article on Venusberg.