Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really wanted to like this book. The story is great at first, funny and confusing at the same time. But once the female characters are introduced and the whole Journalist-Lucy-Dan triangle starts, it lost me. I have never been as mad at a book as the author suggesting that women were attracted to possible murderers, cheated and gaslighted for no reasons, and the way Nettie is treated through it all not just by the people but the author himself. You can tell the writer wrote this book naked and that sexism was the main spice of a sci-fi book about a messed up spaceship. The whole main plot is about how corners were cut when building a spaceship, and how a whole civilization was damaged because of it, but this book ends up being just a joke about 4 people and their unreal connections.
A highly enjoyable light read based off the video game of the same name.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
An entertaining book very much written in the Douglas Adams vein. But the extreme levels of sexism were off-putting to me and almost caused me to not finish.
a good collaboration between the former Monty Python and the author of the HHGTTG; it plays off the nonsensical, British humor of both of them where cause and effect have no correlation what so ever; if you're a big fan of Monty Python, but haven't read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy yet, then you certainly would have a good time with this one. While funny I felt that it was far too similar to Adam's previous works and felt more like a rehash than anything else.
I had an all right time reading this. Jones' python stylings combined with Adams' quirky concepts is a good match, and it's pretty funny. The characters feel pretty dated (especially the women), and the whole crisis at the end doesn't make much sense, but it was still a fun little story.
Apparently I read this is 2010 and rated it 3 stars. 10 years later I started (re)reading it but I remember absolutely nothing about it, and nothing so far has jogged my memory, which probably tells you more about this novel than how I'm about to review it.
This time around, I'm DNFing it almost exactly halfway through. I was holding out some hope for it because I like silly bits of satire that revolve around hyper-intelligent spaceships, but this isn't that. It's a poorly devised sitcom romance that happens to take place upon a spaceship. Circa p. 126, sub-plot B involves an alien trying to convince a woman that he has whatever the alien equivalent of blueballs is, and pressuring her to have sex (again) before continuing on with the adventure. It would be offensive and tacky even if it weren't just lazy, and the entire book feels like a poor shadow of Adams's writing.
This time around, I'm DNFing it almost exactly halfway through. I was holding out some hope for it because I like silly bits of satire that revolve around hyper-intelligent spaceships, but this isn't that. It's a poorly devised sitcom romance that happens to take place upon a spaceship. Circa p. 126, sub-plot B involves an alien trying to convince a woman that he has whatever the alien equivalent of blueballs is, and pressuring her to have sex (again) before continuing on with the adventure. It would be offensive and tacky even if it weren't just lazy, and the entire book feels like a poor shadow of Adams's writing.