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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
This book has the feeling of thinking you're waking up from a dream but instead you are plunging further and further into nightmares. And I mean that in the best way possible. VanderMeer has once again written a piece of fiction that will haunt me for a very long time.
This was a very confusing book and I'm still not really sure what happened but it was all worth it to learn about the genocide of humans at the hands (paws?) of an understandably angry blue fox.
challenging
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I'm only now realizing that this is the second book in a series...which perhaps explains some of why I couldn't tie it all together at the end. *facedesks* and hence, to reread.
I really enjoyed the way this story is written. I kept trying to tell my friends about it, but it is difficult to explain how it feels to read this. It is like nonsense that makes sense if that makes any sense. It was so much fun and I loved it! It is not that long, but it did take me a bit to read it as you have to be paying attention and it feels like there is so much packed into every sentence, every word that I really was in it. This will definitely be on my re-read list!
challenging
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
man, i dunno. this one required way more commitment than i had to give. layered, circular, feverish. i could see the shape of things sometimes. the fox's chapter was devastating. even without understanding, it was full of emotion.
I don't know if this book and I were ever going to get along. I'm a huge Jeff VanderMeer fan, but didn't initially realize this was set in the Borne universe. Borne wasn't bad, but I just didn't end up loving it. From what I read, the connections seem pretty loose -- same universe, different characters. There is just so MUCH going on here that at 27% in I had no idea what I was reading. The prose was gorgeous, but I struggled to follow the plot. This book is going to make you work, and I cautiously recommend it to those who are up for the challenge.
Dead Astronauts reads like a collection of fragments that didn’t make the cut for Jeff VanderMeer’s other books, flung together quickly in the face of a rapidly approaching deadline, actually padded at times by page upon page of the same repeated phrase. This really annoyed me, which is a shame, because I’ve loved his other books, warts and all.
Dead Astronauts describes a kind of distopian dream-state, a circle of hell in which cruelty is mechanically inflicted on all without discernible purpose. It could be an allegory for the zombie-capitalist state, but by the end, I didn’t care.
I did find things to like in the book - in amongst the horror the beautiful things stand out - but I’m not sure it’s worth your time reading the entire book to find them
Dead Astronauts describes a kind of distopian dream-state, a circle of hell in which cruelty is mechanically inflicted on all without discernible purpose. It could be an allegory for the zombie-capitalist state, but by the end, I didn’t care.
I did find things to like in the book - in amongst the horror the beautiful things stand out - but I’m not sure it’s worth your time reading the entire book to find them
Well written but like a lot of his work it's very surreal and difficult to read at times.
adventurous
challenging
dark
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes