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I got halfway through & just didn't care if I read another page or not. I'm not sure if the writing wasn't up to snuff or it was the plot - maybe it was the characters. I think it was. I didn't like the hero much & there wasn't a single supporting character that was more than a caricature. The hero was a self absorbed bureaucrat. There were also some sex that just seemed to be put in there to add interest. They didn't. Everything about the book seemed slightly out of place & phase. Anyway, it di
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Exquisitely written, profound and perplexing "literary" science fiction novel.
I found it hard at times to tell which parts of the narrative were "real", which were drug-induced visions, and which were taking place in cyperspace. The author forces you to figure this out, just as he forces you to piece together the details of the far-future, space-based setting without much exposition (and even as the protagonists is forced to sort through his moral and psychological conundrums.)
A lot of effort, ...more
I found it hard at times to tell which parts of the narrative were "real", which were drug-induced visions, and which were taking place in cyperspace. The author forces you to figure this out, just as he forces you to piece together the details of the far-future, space-based setting without much exposition (and even as the protagonists is forced to sort through his moral and psychological conundrums.)
A lot of effort, ...more
I’m over hallucination sequences, drug sequences, dream sequences, etc.
Points for randomly doing taxidermy on a penis for the express purpose of seducing people, i guess?
Points for randomly doing taxidermy on a penis for the express purpose of seducing people, i guess?
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