I love this book review. I also appreciated hearing Herb Albert music with the TV test pattern. Funny. Your honesty and descriptions were great. Thank you for this review.
Finally someone said it! I didn't like that book at all. There are some elements interesting but I did not like the writing style ( when l was reading it was like reading a screenplay to me, and now what you just said everything makes sense )
Finally someone who knows that this book sucks. I thought it was so insane to only see good reviews from pretty much everyone on RUclips. I thought I had tho after I finished reading it though was, if the book would be better if the successful Jason who kidnaps him was the protagonist instead?
@scifibookery yeah it's about him being a successful physicist, having the life of fame and fortune but regrets not settling down and it's about him created the machine and sees the family he never had?? I just feel like there could be more to it but I might be wrong
So I’m one of those who liked this book but now you’re making me question myself haha. When I think back on what I did like about this, it pretty much was the fact that it fast paced and I liked the alternate realities plot. But I think it was also because it felt like something new/different for me, as my journey with sci-fi has been very small and usually falls in the realm of aliens and distant planets and such. I wasn’t a fan of Jason or his wife and I did hate how they talked about their son. And I do agree about the amount and approach of the sex/drugs in the book, there was a lot and I always felt it was stupidly placed and very cringe at times.
Got it on sale from audible after a quick check on goodreads for the review score. I should have checked the 1 star reviews. How on earth do these terrible books/authors rate so high?
Vintage scifi has complex characters? old scifi i read is mostly about an idea and the characters are solely used to explain that idea. Asimov is the best example.
I hung on a bit longer, but had to stop after the first meaningless, bland as hell chase scene. Why is he running? Why's he lying to all these people who can give him answers? WE DON'T KNOW, just fucking run! The action flick... sorry, book demands it!
Thank you for n honest review and I must agree that pretty much all of the modern Sci Fi I have tried to read has pretty well sucked...Some of my fav vintage Sci Fi books are Clifford D Simacks Way Station, loved it! Arthur C Clarks Childhoods End was a great book. I just started reading Phillip Jose Farmers To Your Scattered Bodies Go, I am really liking it as well. Just subbed by the way, have a great day!
I have to try Way Station. I like Simak but have never read that one and hear nothing but good things. Modern sci fi really needs to step it up and stop writing for Netflix.
Crouch is the kind of author who seems to think everyone except him are drooling idiots, so as a man of average intelligence and below-average insight, he shines. His characters can only be as intelligent as him, and the supposedly profound scenes he builds have the impact of cheap papiermache middle school plays. And his supposedly great theoretical physicist protagonist is completely ignorant of the alternate realities idea. I mean... at this point even my grandmother knows about it, come on. I didn't get the sense that he hated his family, per se. It's more like... that's the cards he was dealt, and being the sanctimonious cowardly halfwit he is, that was his only option and now he's trying to sell himself on the life he has. His spinelessness also stands out. Very early on, Jason is threatened by a masked kidnapper (ooh, I wonder who) and he just crumples like a paper towel. Just gets on his knees and starts begging in the most cringeworthy way possible. Because of the bad writing, it wasn't even entertaining. Just very tedious. I don't think every book you read needs to be really impactful, but if it's not, then it should be really entertaining. This had the entertainment value of an average MCU movie.
@@black-aliss If I'm not mistaken, he had another garbage book published shortly before this that got great reviews so the publishers probably just saw dollar signs and pushed it out. You mentioned MCU before. I think that's astute.
THANK YOU! Finally one guy who agrees Dark Matter sucks! I couldn't get past chapter 7. The guy was a whiny ass ALL THE TIME and dumb to boot! How can you be a physicist and not have reasoning skills? I can stand jerk characters just fine, it was that he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever! And the boring cliché of "what would happen if I made different choices" was just as banal as that horrid book cover.
I think Crouch was writing him to be a relatable character but he's just a whiney little brat. I couldn't connect with him at all. And how many times has It's a Wonderful Life/A Christmas Carole been done? Can we come up with something new? This is just as bad as all the movie/TV reboots and sequels.
I love this book review. I also appreciated hearing Herb Albert music with the TV test pattern. Funny. Your honesty and descriptions were great. Thank you for this review.
I appreciate that man!
Finally someone said it! I didn't like that book at all. There are some elements interesting but I did not like the writing style ( when l was reading it was like reading a screenplay to me, and now what you just said everything makes sense )
Finally someone who knows that this book sucks. I thought it was so insane to only see good reviews from pretty much everyone on RUclips. I thought I had tho after I finished reading it though was, if the book would be better if the successful Jason who kidnaps him was the protagonist instead?
That would've been an interesting twist. Like one of the replicates was chasing the original the whole book. Hey man, anything would be better 🤣
@scifibookery yeah it's about him being a successful physicist, having the life of fame and fortune but regrets not settling down and it's about him created the machine and sees the family he never had?? I just feel like there could be more to it but I might be wrong
So I’m one of those who liked this book but now you’re making me question myself haha.
When I think back on what I did like about this, it pretty much was the fact that it fast paced and I liked the alternate realities plot. But I think it was also because it felt like something new/different for me, as my journey with sci-fi has been very small and usually falls in the realm of aliens and distant planets and such.
I wasn’t a fan of Jason or his wife and I did hate how they talked about their son. And I do agree about the amount and approach of the sex/drugs in the book, there was a lot and I always felt it was stupidly placed and very cringe at times.
Cringe is the word! I really did like the pacing but, for me, that wasn’t enough to redeem the rest.
Got it on sale from audible after a quick check on goodreads for the review score. I should have checked the 1 star reviews. How on earth do these terrible books/authors rate so high?
It’s gotta be fake bot reviews. That’s the only thing I can think of.
Vintage scifi has complex characters? old scifi i read is mostly about an idea and the characters are solely used to explain that idea. Asimov is the best example.
Maybe you’re not reading the right books. I always find deeper character development in vintage works.
I couldn' t get past the fake treacle of the first family scene. Therefore I put it down for good. No more Crouch for me.
That was so bad. I didn’t once believe they were a real family.
I hung on a bit longer, but had to stop after the first meaningless, bland as hell chase scene. Why is he running? Why's he lying to all these people who can give him answers? WE DON'T KNOW, just fucking run! The action flick... sorry, book demands it!
@@black-aliss 😂😂😂
Thank you for n honest review and I must agree that pretty much all of the modern Sci Fi I have tried to read has pretty well sucked...Some of my fav vintage Sci Fi books are Clifford D Simacks Way Station, loved it! Arthur C Clarks Childhoods End was a great book. I just started reading Phillip Jose Farmers To Your Scattered Bodies Go, I am really liking it as well. Just subbed by the way, have a great day!
I have to try Way Station. I like Simak but have never read that one and hear nothing but good things. Modern sci fi really needs to step it up and stop writing for Netflix.
The sience in this book is ridiculsly wrong. I refuse to believe the author researched quantum physics at all. Other than that, I liked the book lol
Right?? I’d believe he read half of a buzzfeed article on quantum physics and got bored 🤣
@@scifibookery That's exactly how the book reads 😅
Crouch is the kind of author who seems to think everyone except him are drooling idiots, so as a man of average intelligence and below-average insight, he shines. His characters can only be as intelligent as him, and the supposedly profound scenes he builds have the impact of cheap papiermache middle school plays. And his supposedly great theoretical physicist protagonist is completely ignorant of the alternate realities idea. I mean... at this point even my grandmother knows about it, come on.
I didn't get the sense that he hated his family, per se. It's more like... that's the cards he was dealt, and being the sanctimonious cowardly halfwit he is, that was his only option and now he's trying to sell himself on the life he has. His spinelessness also stands out. Very early on, Jason is threatened by a masked kidnapper (ooh, I wonder who) and he just crumples like a paper towel. Just gets on his knees and starts begging in the most cringeworthy way possible.
Because of the bad writing, it wasn't even entertaining. Just very tedious. I don't think every book you read needs to be really impactful, but if it's not, then it should be really entertaining. This had the entertainment value of an average MCU movie.
Yes! You nailed it. The cowardliness is so cringey. Crouch really thinks he’s smart which is also cringey.
The worst kind of author. The weirdest thing is that all his editors and publishers didn't take any notice of it either.
@@black-aliss If I'm not mistaken, he had another garbage book published shortly before this that got great reviews so the publishers probably just saw dollar signs and pushed it out. You mentioned MCU before. I think that's astute.
I loved this book so much maybe because it was the first sci/fi book i've ever read.
Have you continued to read sci fi since? If so, then it did a great job.
I think I found my favorite youtuber, you love golden age and didn't like Dark Matter.
You'd think there'd be more of us haha
When you get a chance read World War Z. That's another book I think sucks but everyone says is good
I will thanks!
THANK YOU! Finally one guy who agrees Dark Matter sucks! I couldn't get past chapter 7. The guy was a whiny ass ALL THE TIME and dumb to boot! How can you be a physicist and not have reasoning skills? I can stand jerk characters just fine, it was that he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever! And the boring cliché of "what would happen if I made different choices" was just as banal as that horrid book cover.
I think Crouch was writing him to be a relatable character but he's just a whiney little brat. I couldn't connect with him at all. And how many times has It's a Wonderful Life/A Christmas Carole been done? Can we come up with something new? This is just as bad as all the movie/TV reboots and sequels.