A review by baffi
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.

The writing is cold, sterile, overly technical. The characters felt flat and hollow to me, the world building didn't have much going for it either. Chiang's fiction seems based pretty much entirely in ideas which, as I've always suspected, is not my cup of tea.
The two stories I read didn't touch me in any way, and after reading several reviews stating similar issues with the remaining stories, I decided to let it go. It's just going to be one of those super popular, highly acclaimed books that did nothing for me. Wasn't the first, won't be the last. Shit happens.