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rcgrimes's review against another edition
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
anika_dawson's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
3.5
eric_conrad's review against another edition
3.0
A slow build and an awkward hasty conclusion. The political maneuvers made sense, but that did not make any of the characters more appealing.
david_agranoff's review against another edition
3.0
This PKD presents a multi-verse story long before that has become old hat. There is some clumsy outdated attempts to be progressive that 55 years later sound cringey. A few really good moments but not a stronger book in the PKD catalog.
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Dickheads Podcast episode:
https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast/episode-27-the-crack-in-space
storybookvisitor's review against another edition
I really didn’t like how the book approached race.
drew1013's review against another edition
1.0
Gave up at page 70, and this is my first DNF of 2018 with no plans to come back. Reasons:
* Poorly written. High school creative writing level exposition, characters, and line by line writing
* Way too many characters with few defining features
* Too many political machinations in a book about another dimension. Maybe the blurb was misleading. They got my money, I guess. While I see that PKD was going for racial and social commentary, it’s so poorly executed that page by page, I’m not engaged and it’s all just badly written political drama
* The first few pages are jam packed with abbreviations and jargon words, many of which are nonsensical and meant to make it sound “future-y.”
* Some scenes make no sense spatially (how did that just happen if they’re in a crowded place?)
* My edition had tons of punctuation missing. Not really a knock against the novel itself, I suppose. Unless it attests to the manuscript being hastily pushed out and given little to no editing attention
PKD must have had a deadline and stayed up for 3 days banging this one out, possibly under the influence of something. I’ve read several of his novels, even a couple beyond the standard greatest hits, and this one was by far the worst executed.
* Poorly written. High school creative writing level exposition, characters, and line by line writing
* Way too many characters with few defining features
* Too many political machinations in a book about another dimension. Maybe the blurb was misleading. They got my money, I guess. While I see that PKD was going for racial and social commentary, it’s so poorly executed that page by page, I’m not engaged and it’s all just badly written political drama
* The first few pages are jam packed with abbreviations and jargon words, many of which are nonsensical and meant to make it sound “future-y.”
* Some scenes make no sense spatially (how did that just happen if they’re in a crowded place?)
* My edition had tons of punctuation missing. Not really a knock against the novel itself, I suppose. Unless it attests to the manuscript being hastily pushed out and given little to no editing attention
PKD must have had a deadline and stayed up for 3 days banging this one out, possibly under the influence of something. I’ve read several of his novels, even a couple beyond the standard greatest hits, and this one was by far the worst executed.