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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
Provocative, challenging, with a deep sense of world building. Books like this don't come around often. Do yourself a favor & read it.
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The book suffers from the fact that it is a stitch together of many short stories that are based on the same world.
It has a lot of interesting content but it has little focus and I never connected with the characters or the story itself.
It has a lot of interesting content but it has little focus and I never connected with the characters or the story itself.
A very different take on sci fi, concentrating not on the shiny and new, but rather on what daily life might be like and what would change and what would not, even in the face of complex and not altogether positive advances. A difficult thing to do, but done well.
It was an interesting premise but I became bored. There were too many characters with very little action. It would have been better with less explanation of the world and character back grounds.
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not a writing style that I'm used to--it's written like the author is painting a picture of a future Earth one piece at a time and slowly fitting the pieces together. Not a page turner, but had some really cool ideas and concepts incorporated into the narrative.
Most of Central Station was previously published as a number of disparate short stories, and it shows. Tidhar's descriptions of a future Tel Aviv are well-crafted and imaginative, but the book doesn't hang together as a coherent novel.
A lovely tapestry of future ideas that mesh together in "Central Station", but the characters are thin, and there's not much of plot...