A page-long paragraph describing what isn't in Zuckermann's lab. Great long lists of what something is or is not like. (Page numbers according to ADE, which gives total count as 355 pages.)ġ00 pages in and we've wasted pages and pages on things that I seriously doubt this book is going to revisit or otherwise allude to further on. Stephen Fry is undoubtedly clever and articulate, and some of the lines he comes up with are wonderful, but in a work of fiction - like Making History - I find myself begging: will you please just get out of the way and get on with it! (Or is he so lacking in confidence that he has to keep repeating or elaborating on himself?) In his autobiographical books I am content to accept this excess verbiage, you expect that a writer is likely to be self-indulgent in such work. But as an author I find him often too fond of his own voice. I like Stephen Fry as a comedian, as an actor, as a presenter. And if it wasn't for the book club wouldn't have finished it this time the second half did not make up for the mess of a first half to me. Overall, I enjoyed this but won't read it again. I would have liked to get a better idea of why they had stagnated so much in a some areas while progressing so far in others. The alternate "contemporary" world was interesting. The premise didn't feel particularly new, the "what if" that turns out worse than the alternative (one of Stephen King's semi-recent works comes to mind, and yes I know this was before that), but it was a different take on it than what I have read before and appreciated that. I'm glad I pushed through and finished it, the second half was much better than the first and I enjoyed it quite a bit. If it wasn't for the book club that would have been the end of it. No idea what was going on and I didn't care at all for ANY of the characters. And the first couple chapters especially were just a mess. i should read MH, but I don't want to.Īny book that starts out with a graphic (enough) depiction of someone getting felt up, even in a dream and especially without knowing it, is not going to be my cup-o-tea. On Wednesday I even found a new book and completed it prior to going back to this one. Instead of reading for the first 1/2 of my commute I would instead read the news on my phone, something that normally takes me 5 minutes I stretched out to 30 minutes. I started this almost a week ago and expected it to take 3-4 days to finish.I finished this late last night. I am using this for the "Book I wanted to DNF" in the Bingo challenge.
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