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elturko64 's review for:
Dead Astronauts
by Jeff VanderMeer
As I'm typing this I'm still not sure if this book deserves 2 stars or 3. I have no idea what I just read and I don't mean that in a good way. The book started off strong with three astronauts fighting against an evil corporation. Awesome, but as the book pushes on the writing becomes more and more difficult to process. Near the end of the book I wondered what was the point of the story. There's so much in this book that feels incomprehensible. I felt like Vandermeer's book was either too smart for my brain to process or that he was on too much drugs when he was writing this.
Speaking of VanderMeer's writing I have to admit it can be incredible at times throughout the book. There were certain chapters where I constantly reread them because of how beautiful they were. VanderMeer has a special way of creating amazing imagery in my head when I was reading this book. But the prose and the narrative are all over the place to the point where I had more questions than answers as the book went on. Some folks may enjoy that in a story. I know I do in other books but with 'Dead Astronauts' I felt more annoyed than pleased when I finished it.
Speaking of VanderMeer's writing I have to admit it can be incredible at times throughout the book. There were certain chapters where I constantly reread them because of how beautiful they were. VanderMeer has a special way of creating amazing imagery in my head when I was reading this book. But the prose and the narrative are all over the place to the point where I had more questions than answers as the book went on. Some folks may enjoy that in a story. I know I do in other books but with 'Dead Astronauts' I felt more annoyed than pleased when I finished it.