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Venus on the Half-Shell
by Philip José Farmer, Kilgore Trout
This book fulfills requirement #8~ Science Fiction set in space for the 2015 eclectic reader challenge.
I will be generous and say that it gets 1.5 stars. I struggled quite a bit to finish this one. First, I was highly disappointed that it wasn't by Kurt Vonnegut (Kilgore Trout is one of Vonnegut's characters, so I was hoping it would be one of his stories since Kilgore Trout is the name on the book). Then I started reading it and the insane amount of sex turned me off. I don't generally read a lot of sci-fi, so the technical stuff, though tough to read, didn't bother me too much. The book did improve somewhat toward the end, but by then the experience had already been ruined for me. This book was totally not my cup of tea... and I was disappointed in the ending, so for me there was no payoff for finishing it.
I will be generous and say that it gets 1.5 stars. I struggled quite a bit to finish this one. First, I was highly disappointed that it wasn't by Kurt Vonnegut (Kilgore Trout is one of Vonnegut's characters, so I was hoping it would be one of his stories since Kilgore Trout is the name on the book). Then I started reading it and the insane amount of sex turned me off. I don't generally read a lot of sci-fi, so the technical stuff, though tough to read, didn't bother me too much. The book did improve somewhat toward the end, but by then the experience had already been ruined for me. This book was totally not my cup of tea... and I was disappointed in the ending, so for me there was no payoff for finishing it.