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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Definitely the craziest thing I've read in a REALLY long time! So amazingly snarky and name dropping that it was hard to wrap your head around one thing before it was off to the next. i knew we'd win, though ;)
As a teaser, Clippy the paper clip from Microsoft office? Total scream as a character
As a teaser, Clippy the paper clip from Microsoft office? Total scream as a character
It was ok but there wasn’t much of a story and there wasn’t really much development of the main protagonists. The best character Capo only got a very short chapter.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
This was so brilliantly weird.
Originally posted on the book blog Creature From the Book Lagoon.
Wow. Uh…..wow. I’m…. not sure exactly what I just listened to over here…. This book really had me scratching my head and feeling pretty frustrated a majority of the time. Space Opera felt so…. convoluted and… really drawn out… and stuffed full of not a lot of anything….? I don’t even know, dude. Like……WTF?
Everything starts off well. The story pretty much jumps right in to a giant blue, 8ft tall flamingo fish alien telling humanity how they have to enter a galactic idol type contest. Ok, good… good… I’m with you….
Then things start going off the rails. Fast. I seriously don’t even know where to even BEGIN!
Ok, so, one of the biggest problems (although, to be fair, there are several big problems here!), are the sentences. Holy run-on sentence, Batman! So. Many. Commas. I mean, the sentences just went on and on and on. Eventually I would forget where we even were going with these sentences in the first place! As if the long ass sentences aren’t bad enough, they are all sprinkled with wonky words and convoluted phrases. Do I need a dictionary? A thesaurus? Half the time I felt like I only had a half vague idea of what we were even talking about anymore. :/
Ok, now bare with me here for a second… I’m a huge wrestling fan. Wrestling is scripted (OMG NUUU! ). The stories and matches are written by people called Bookers. They do the “booking”, right? Sometimes when a booker is doing a story, they start adding gimmicks to keep people on their toes and keep them interested in what we are watching. That’s a good thing, right? Yes. It’s what keeps us hooked (assuming the gimmicks they are working with are good.). But. Sometimes the booker gets a little out of control, or in over their head, or caught up in the excitement. They start adding more gimmicks. Then some more. And more. More. More. More. Soon the story has so many gimmicks that it over shadows the story and makes this huge mess of everything. Nobody even knows what is even going on anymore. And 9 times out of 10 we don’t even end up with a satisfactory ending because nobody even knows what’s going on now. It leaves the viewers confused and not happy. This…. is NOT good. When this happens, it is said that “this story / match is overbooked“.
Space Opera…. is overbooked. So. So….. OVERBOOKED. If I’m not explaining this properly………… WAY TOO MUCH SHIT IS GOING ON HERE …….all while simultaneously a lot of not much goes on. I’m not even sure HOW that can happen?? But it does. A lot.
First, soooo many characters. And ever character seems to have gimmicks followed by a chaser of more gimmicks. Hey! I am all for diversity in the cast. People of color, different cultures, sexual orientations, multiple genders, and aliens…but, in Space Opera, I don’t know, man… it comes off feeling like the author just shoehorned social commentary about humans being shitty to each other / gender / race for a token WOKE AF moment? And then repeated it to DEATH. It didn’t feel organic at all. :/ We GET IT the first few times you mention it… you don’t have to keep beating a dead horse. It came off feeling really forced. Or maybe trying way too hard? OR… All of the above. Yeah. I’m going with that one.
Honestly, the whole book has this… forced / trying too hard… feel to it. Ok, I’ve never read this author before. I don’t know if this is her typical style or not? But, Space Opera feels like the author had a long, LONG list of random ideas, and instead of culling the list down to a manageable amount to deal with, she’s like “Fuck it! They all go in!” and then just crams them in wherever. Instead of getting a cohesive, solid plot, we get this twisty-turny, winding, weaving, detailed to death book that has so many side steps that when we actually, FINALLY, get to the contest actually happening, it’s over in a flash. The contest is over in a matter of minutes, while I had to sit through long chapter after long chapter about the history of all these alien races- that I can’t even keep straight nor remember?? WTF? Dude, I can’t even tell you how the human race even placed in the contest because it was just like, oh they sang and it was a convoluted mess, *instert more gimmicks here* Now cue cheerful ending and goodbye.
Wow. Uh…..wow. I’m…. not sure exactly what I just listened to over here…. This book really had me scratching my head and feeling pretty frustrated a majority of the time. Space Opera felt so…. convoluted and… really drawn out… and stuffed full of not a lot of anything….? I don’t even know, dude. Like……WTF?
Everything starts off well. The story pretty much jumps right in to a giant blue, 8ft tall flamingo fish alien telling humanity how they have to enter a galactic idol type contest. Ok, good… good… I’m with you….
Then things start going off the rails. Fast. I seriously don’t even know where to even BEGIN!
Ok, so, one of the biggest problems (although, to be fair, there are several big problems here!), are the sentences. Holy run-on sentence, Batman! So. Many. Commas. I mean, the sentences just went on and on and on. Eventually I would forget where we even were going with these sentences in the first place! As if the long ass sentences aren’t bad enough, they are all sprinkled with wonky words and convoluted phrases. Do I need a dictionary? A thesaurus? Half the time I felt like I only had a half vague idea of what we were even talking about anymore. :/
Ok, now bare with me here for a second… I’m a huge wrestling fan. Wrestling is scripted (OMG NUUU! ). The stories and matches are written by people called Bookers. They do the “booking”, right? Sometimes when a booker is doing a story, they start adding gimmicks to keep people on their toes and keep them interested in what we are watching. That’s a good thing, right? Yes. It’s what keeps us hooked (assuming the gimmicks they are working with are good.). But. Sometimes the booker gets a little out of control, or in over their head, or caught up in the excitement. They start adding more gimmicks. Then some more. And more. More. More. More. Soon the story has so many gimmicks that it over shadows the story and makes this huge mess of everything. Nobody even knows what is even going on anymore. And 9 times out of 10 we don’t even end up with a satisfactory ending because nobody even knows what’s going on now. It leaves the viewers confused and not happy. This…. is NOT good. When this happens, it is said that “this story / match is overbooked“.
Space Opera…. is overbooked. So. So….. OVERBOOKED. If I’m not explaining this properly………… WAY TOO MUCH SHIT IS GOING ON HERE …….all while simultaneously a lot of not much goes on. I’m not even sure HOW that can happen?? But it does. A lot.
First, soooo many characters. And ever character seems to have gimmicks followed by a chaser of more gimmicks. Hey! I am all for diversity in the cast. People of color, different cultures, sexual orientations, multiple genders, and aliens…but, in Space Opera, I don’t know, man… it comes off feeling like the author just shoehorned social commentary about humans being shitty to each other / gender / race for a token WOKE AF moment? And then repeated it to DEATH. It didn’t feel organic at all. :/ We GET IT the first few times you mention it… you don’t have to keep beating a dead horse. It came off feeling really forced. Or maybe trying way too hard? OR… All of the above. Yeah. I’m going with that one.
Honestly, the whole book has this… forced / trying too hard… feel to it. Ok, I’ve never read this author before. I don’t know if this is her typical style or not? But, Space Opera feels like the author had a long, LONG list of random ideas, and instead of culling the list down to a manageable amount to deal with, she’s like “Fuck it! They all go in!” and then just crams them in wherever. Instead of getting a cohesive, solid plot, we get this twisty-turny, winding, weaving, detailed to death book that has so many side steps that when we actually, FINALLY, get to the contest actually happening, it’s over in a flash. The contest is over in a matter of minutes, while I had to sit through long chapter after long chapter about the history of all these alien races- that I can’t even keep straight nor remember?? WTF? Dude, I can’t even tell you how the human race even placed in the contest because it was just like, oh they sang and it was a convoluted mess, *instert more gimmicks here* Now cue cheerful ending and goodbye.
adventurous
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
No pude encontrar una única línea argumental, pero sí hay una buena crítica a cómo somos como especie.Habla de la riqueza que hay en el arte y en la diversidad, y lo importante que es valorar esas diversidades, más allá de eso, no entendí mucho.
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
slow-paced
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
This is the closest thing to Douglas Adams that I've read since, well, Douglas Adams. But it's a Hitchhiker's Guide where Arthur Dent has been replaced by a human Zaphod Beeblebrox - sure, Decibel Jones is new and confused, but he's still far too glam to serve as a good foil or straight man for a parade of hypergalactic witty bits. I wanted a break from the zaniness, or possibly from the "I admire your ability to get this shit past a professional editor because my high school teachers were having none of it" sentences.