Reviews

Body, Inc. by Alan Dean Foster

futuregazer's review against another edition

2.0

Hahahah! One sentence epilogues sure have impact; even if they concern something somewhat suspected and mundane. I would love to see more authors use those for their revelatory epilogues :D

elliottback's review against another edition

2.0

Not hard scifi by any means, [b:Body, Inc.|12228830|Body, Inc.|Alan Dean Foster|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320558098s/12228830.jpg|17202433] is a serious slog through B-movie fodder.

trike's review against another edition

1.0

The fact this is the second in a series wasn't immediately obvious when I picked up the book. I'm a big fan of Alan Dean Foster -- I probably own more books by him than by any other writer except Asimov or Bendis. I also recently visited South Africa, the setting of this novel. So this seemed right up my alley.

Boy was I wrong.

I'm wondering if this was written by Foster or by an intern finishing his thoughts. The first few pages are quite good and snap right along, but they start stumbling immediately with clumsy slang like "credcard." I can't imagine anyone saying that. Words tend to get shorter over time, and we already say "Put it on the card." Hard to believe people would add a syllable back into it.

After that it feels like one long series of infodumps that I eventually just started skimming. I didn't hate the book, but I just thought it was terribly dull.

dhalia's review against another edition

1.0

It didn't get very far, and it took a long time to do so