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tudlio 's review for:
The Water Thief
by Nicholas Lamar Soutter
If I knew before reading this book that it was a polemic against neoliberalism for people who have never given much thought to the topic, I wouldn’t have bothered. If that’s your thing, go for it.
But as a work of fiction it’s almost indigestible. The characters are tissue thin, the plot is mostly irrelevant, and the dialog is one big, unrealistic exposition after another. The author had a sledgehammer and damned if he wasn’t going to use it every chance he got.
It’s too bad, because I am in complete agreement with the political and philosophical arguments the author makes. But they’re handled so clumsily, and so didactically, that it makes me want to run into the arms of Jeff Bezos out of spite.
If you thought this book looked interesting go read Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow or William Gibson instead. (Or for that matter any of a hundred lesser known science fiction writers who can tell a story and talk about issues of corporatism at the same time.)
But as a work of fiction it’s almost indigestible. The characters are tissue thin, the plot is mostly irrelevant, and the dialog is one big, unrealistic exposition after another. The author had a sledgehammer and damned if he wasn’t going to use it every chance he got.
It’s too bad, because I am in complete agreement with the political and philosophical arguments the author makes. But they’re handled so clumsily, and so didactically, that it makes me want to run into the arms of Jeff Bezos out of spite.
If you thought this book looked interesting go read Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow or William Gibson instead. (Or for that matter any of a hundred lesser known science fiction writers who can tell a story and talk about issues of corporatism at the same time.)