Hey man, really enjoyed the review. I will say that I think you should give Station Eleven (the novel anyway) another chance. I think she handled the different timelines very well in that one, it never got too jarring. As for this, I am not sure if I will try it. Time travel is not one of my favored SF tropes, because as you say it can get complicated really fast. Of course I make exceptions with stuff like Primer, 12 Monkeys, Terminator, and the like. Appreciate the Primer and Timecrimes shoutouts. I love both of those movies.
I was thinking about trying the novel again, but another commenter said that the book had worse character development than the show. I'd been waiting to talk to someone who has both read the book and watched the show to see if the shortcomings were solved, but it sounds like they're worse.
I had to finish this book at 2.5 speed from the 50% mark. If u didn't like station eleven but u liked this book, I'm wondering if I should just trash my station eleven without even opening it. (Was $1 from half price books) struggling to find a good post apocalyptic cozy ish book
One of these days I'll read one of the books you review... nevermind, I guess I did read The Road back in the day, and I agree with you, it deserves a 10/10. Anyways, congratulations on the 1K subscribers! Here's to many K more, just not that triple K, that stuff is really yucky. A random question: For the books you quit and didn't give a score, would those be like a 3 on the scoring level or less? I remember the lowest you've scored a book was a 2, but I was just curious about the books you quit.
Thanks! It's been a long road, but it's great to finally hit that milestone. For the books I don't finish, I hesitate to give them a score since I didn't finish them so don't feel I can judge them fairly. But, hypothetically, if I did score one, it would be in the sub 5 range. 5 is average in my scale. Murderbot was the lowest score I've ever given, and I still can't believe how much love that book gets. Sometimes I can understand how someone would like a book, and it's just not to my tastes, but that book, I can't conceive how anyone could like it haha.
Hey man, really enjoyed the review. I will say that I think you should give Station Eleven (the novel anyway) another chance. I think she handled the different timelines very well in that one, it never got too jarring. As for this, I am not sure if I will try it. Time travel is not one of my favored SF tropes, because as you say it can get complicated really fast. Of course I make exceptions with stuff like Primer, 12 Monkeys, Terminator, and the like.
Appreciate the Primer and Timecrimes shoutouts. I love both of those movies.
I was thinking about trying the novel again, but another commenter said that the book had worse character development than the show. I'd been waiting to talk to someone who has both read the book and watched the show to see if the shortcomings were solved, but it sounds like they're worse.
I had to finish this book at 2.5 speed from the 50% mark. If u didn't like station eleven but u liked this book, I'm wondering if I should just trash my station eleven without even opening it. (Was $1 from half price books) struggling to find a good post apocalyptic cozy ish book
I wouldn't say I liked this book. I was able to finish it, and I think part of it was because it was so short. To me it was underdeveloped.
One of these days I'll read one of the books you review... nevermind, I guess I did read The Road back in the day, and I agree with you, it deserves a 10/10. Anyways, congratulations on the 1K subscribers! Here's to many K more, just not that triple K, that stuff is really yucky.
A random question: For the books you quit and didn't give a score, would those be like a 3 on the scoring level or less? I remember the lowest you've scored a book was a 2, but I was just curious about the books you quit.
Thanks! It's been a long road, but it's great to finally hit that milestone.
For the books I don't finish, I hesitate to give them a score since I didn't finish them so don't feel I can judge them fairly. But, hypothetically, if I did score one, it would be in the sub 5 range. 5 is average in my scale.
Murderbot was the lowest score I've ever given, and I still can't believe how much love that book gets. Sometimes I can understand how someone would like a book, and it's just not to my tastes, but that book, I can't conceive how anyone could like it haha.
And yet it was published…
That is the mystery.