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dili's review
5.0
It's a wonderful read. It's a very Clarkian short story in it's structure IMO. Circa the middle of Clarke's career when he started to really find a balance between the soft narrative/philosophy and the hard science in his stories. If you know me at all, you know it's a big deal for me to be comparing anyone to Arthur C. Clarke.
The science is good. The plot is good. While I'm sure Interstellar gave it some direction, what Rohan is going through is a very original crisis to me and it was quite the experience to connect with that. And you can connect because the writing is excellent. If there's any criticism to be had, a little more exploration of this would have been nice, but I suppose then this would have been 16000 words instead of 8000.
I loved the hell out of this. It's one of the best things I've read in Sri Lankan English literature. Ever. It's definitely one of the best science fiction short stories I've read from anywhere. That's a big statement and an almost knee-jerk reaction but hell Im'ma say it anyway.
The science is good. The plot is good. While I'm sure Interstellar gave it some direction, what Rohan is going through is a very original crisis to me and it was quite the experience to connect with that. And you can connect because the writing is excellent. If there's any criticism to be had, a little more exploration of this would have been nice, but I suppose then this would have been 16000 words instead of 8000.
I loved the hell out of this. It's one of the best things I've read in Sri Lankan English literature. Ever. It's definitely one of the best science fiction short stories I've read from anywhere. That's a big statement and an almost knee-jerk reaction but hell Im'ma say it anyway.
lina_djihane's review
1.0
I disliked this book on so many levels:
▪︎ The story's premise, centered around the physics of black holes which was poorly leveraged, failing to reach its full potential.
▪︎ The incomprehensible writing where paragraphs flow into each other without any clear transition. A jumbled mess.
▪︎ The rather misleading title. Suicide there was. Slow and sad? Not quite. Or maybe it was. I couldn't tell, really, with that awful writing.
▪︎ The flat, one-dimensional protagonist and the empty, irrelevant secondary characters.
▪︎ The predictable, lackluster ending. So painfully dull and obvious that you could see it coming from a mile away.
▪︎ The unnecessary, utterly useless religious elements that didn't serve any purpose in the story except for making it lousy.
▪︎ The story's premise, centered around the physics of black holes which was poorly leveraged, failing to reach its full potential.
▪︎ The incomprehensible writing where paragraphs flow into each other without any clear transition. A jumbled mess.
▪︎ The rather misleading title. Suicide there was. Slow and sad? Not quite. Or maybe it was. I couldn't tell, really, with that awful writing.
▪︎ The flat, one-dimensional protagonist and the empty, irrelevant secondary characters.
▪︎ The predictable, lackluster ending. So painfully dull and obvious that you could see it coming from a mile away.
▪︎ The unnecessary, utterly useless religious elements that didn't serve any purpose in the story except for making it lousy.
iniye's review
adventurous
informative
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
anna_hepworth's review
3.0
I feel I'm not the target market for this rambling slightly incoherent story of an trust fund baby grown up to be an alcoholic who ends up on a one way trip to investigate a black hole. I kind of enjoyed it. Content notes: drug abuse, suicide.
thirdnewscaster's review
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
sarah984's review
3.0
There were parts of this story that were brilliant and beautiful, but I found it hard to connect to any of the characters and the lack of inverted commas made it a bit hard to read.
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