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Contact
by Carl Sagan
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
We are not good enough for Carl Sagan. Seriously, when he wrote this, I feel like we were on track to make a planet that could have responded to the signal in the way that they did in his novel. Sadly, I kept reflecting, "Well, interesting that he thought we'd do x,y, or z... In our world, we'd..." It makes the past feel like an entirely different world. Did the US actually elect Jimmy Carter? Seriously? Jimmy? Can you imagine that in contemporary discourse?
Donald Trump would have been threatening to nuke anyone who tried to do anything with the aliens - not to mention the fact that he flat out would have been entirely unable to understand the time separation between us and them... Ugh... Alright, that's not about the book... clearly...
All that said, Sagan does create an everyone's-favorite-science-teacher-before-Neal deGrasse Tyson-was-around-tells-a-story type narrative, and he does it well. That said, Ellie sometimes feels too perfect. Even the book's ostensible villains feel like they're too good for the world we live in, too educated, too... well... good.
I liked the book. I'd recommend it to people who liked listening to their science teachers tell stories about graduate school.
Donald Trump would have been threatening to nuke anyone who tried to do anything with the aliens - not to mention the fact that he flat out would have been entirely unable to understand the time separation between us and them... Ugh... Alright, that's not about the book... clearly...
All that said, Sagan does create an everyone's-favorite-science-teacher-before-Neal deGrasse Tyson-was-around-tells-a-story type narrative, and he does it well. That said, Ellie sometimes feels too perfect. Even the book's ostensible villains feel like they're too good for the world we live in, too educated, too... well... good.
I liked the book. I'd recommend it to people who liked listening to their science teachers tell stories about graduate school.