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A review by romankurys
Space Marine by Ian Watson
2.0
So I was extremely conflicted on the rating for this book and had I known more about Warhammer 40K universe maybe it would have been beneficial, but alas, I figured a good book should be able to tell ya own story.
And it did.
Problem was me looking up about 4-5 words in the dictionary every other page. It was so bad I had to check my own "stupid" level and send screenshots to some friends to see if it's just me.
Nope. Not just me.
Oddly enough, Ian Watson writing style reminds me of Ann Rice, although obviously a completely different genre. But what I remember most vividly about reading "Interview with the Vampire" is how frustrated I was to need a dictionary constantly near me, so I couldn't fully immerse myself into the story for long.
Same with Ian Watson.
Once you get past not being able to really fully immerse, story is decent, but very choppy. It reads almost like a video game. Space marines go on random missions and kill things, missions don't seem to be related at all and the only thing coherent and persistent through the entire book is three main characters oddly twisted friendship and authors love of rectums and poop.
I did like the grimness of the world, the terrorizing dark world where there doesn't seem to be a single ray of Hope, but people somehow survive. The world was great.
The rest of it, mediocre and boring at best, for me.
Roman
And it did.
Problem was me looking up about 4-5 words in the dictionary every other page. It was so bad I had to check my own "stupid" level and send screenshots to some friends to see if it's just me.
Nope. Not just me.
Oddly enough, Ian Watson writing style reminds me of Ann Rice, although obviously a completely different genre. But what I remember most vividly about reading "Interview with the Vampire" is how frustrated I was to need a dictionary constantly near me, so I couldn't fully immerse myself into the story for long.
Same with Ian Watson.
Once you get past not being able to really fully immerse, story is decent, but very choppy. It reads almost like a video game. Space marines go on random missions and kill things, missions don't seem to be related at all and the only thing coherent and persistent through the entire book is three main characters oddly twisted friendship and authors love of rectums and poop.
I did like the grimness of the world, the terrorizing dark world where there doesn't seem to be a single ray of Hope, but people somehow survive. The world was great.
The rest of it, mediocre and boring at best, for me.
Roman