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I really liked the beginning. I highlighted a few passages (my kindle is at home) especially the way Birch describes the animals. The writing is interesting but the story itself isn't. I loved how Birch was saying the things she was saying...but I didn't feel compelled to read the stuff in between the passages of brilliant language. That "stuff" was filler to me, even though it was the plot. Oh well. I only made it halfway through. I assumed it was because between work, a new man, and summertime but reading these comments I guess we are all in the same boat.
I propose SciFi next. I'm still in my singularity/scifi mode from 99 days ago: http://hubski.com/pub?id=27349 I took b_b's advice and read The Man in the High Castle. Something along those lines.
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insomniasexx · 4287 days ago · link ·
I loved it. I want to read it again in a year or so. It has so many layers, I think I missed a lot of it the first time around.
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I'm glad. You always feel bad when you love something and recommend it, and the person hates it. Its hard not to take it personal. The good thing is that its short enough you can read it several times and not feel like you're wasting time. One thing I think that Dick was really good at presaging is the merger of corporatism with government. Obviously this was happening when he was writing, but its gotten out of hand in the last 30 years. He--and a lot of other SciFi writers, I suppose--saw this coming and tried to warn everyone. Sucks for us that we didn't listen.
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Hey, I read that one! It was some time ago and I didn't quite understand it much. I'm guessing, from my other FKD readings -- 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch' and 'Ubik' -- that it was about their reality fusing with ours? Something like that?
I remember enjoyed mainly the geopolitics of the book.