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A review by logarithms
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
3.0
Interesting book, and neatly written (not my favourite writing style...super too the point and factual, like a recount instead of a novel but you know, still nice and neat)
The constant pages long monologues were pretty dull....like was there no other way to relay the characters views besides pages of block dialogue?
Why choose to call them thought-shapes and think-togethers it just sounds so clunky...i get that they came up with it as kids but still
Hilarious how this is written from Davids POV when he does literally nothing. Rosalind and Sophie are out here killing people and David just sits there. i love Rosalind and Sophie but they miserably fell into the clutches of male author syndrome and we couldnt get by without overly detailed descriptions of their looks and having them be pitted against each other over a man.....le sigh...wyndam i trusted u....u only had 50 pages left to not screw up...
here's a quote i tabbed because im a fan of the extinctions concept:
"Sometime there will come a day when we ourselves shall have to give place to a new thing. Very certainly we shall struggle against the inevitable just as these remnants of the Old People do. We shall try with all our strength to grind it back into the earth from which it is emerging, for treachery to one's own species must always seem a crime. We shall force it to prove itself, and when it does, we shall go; as, by the same process, these are going. In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction."
"The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are a part of it." (these quotes are both punctuation nightmares)
it seriously confused me and muddied all the themes of the first half of the book when their sealand saviour society was shown to have a greater superiority complex/disregard for others than the people they left behind. killing people cause theyre (/their species) gonna die anyway/their 'inferior lives' are not worth living....yea that doesnt sit right. like great the telepaths couldnt live in their group because of their differences but now they found a new group that will not care for anyone different from them but its ok now cause they fit in to the 'superior' group that 'deserves to live'...
The constant pages long monologues were pretty dull....like was there no other way to relay the characters views besides pages of block dialogue?
Why choose to call them thought-shapes and think-togethers it just sounds so clunky...i get that they came up with it as kids but still
Hilarious how this is written from Davids POV when he does literally nothing. Rosalind and Sophie are out here killing people and David just sits there. i love Rosalind and Sophie but they miserably fell into the clutches of male author syndrome and we couldnt get by without overly detailed descriptions of their looks and having them be pitted against each other over a man.....le sigh...wyndam i trusted u....u only had 50 pages left to not screw up...
here's a quote i tabbed because im a fan of the extinctions concept:
"Sometime there will come a day when we ourselves shall have to give place to a new thing. Very certainly we shall struggle against the inevitable just as these remnants of the Old People do. We shall try with all our strength to grind it back into the earth from which it is emerging, for treachery to one's own species must always seem a crime. We shall force it to prove itself, and when it does, we shall go; as, by the same process, these are going. In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction."
"The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are a part of it." (these quotes are both punctuation nightmares)
it seriously confused me and muddied all the themes of the first half of the book when their sealand saviour society was shown to have a greater superiority complex/disregard for others than the people they left behind. killing people cause theyre (/their species) gonna die anyway/their 'inferior lives' are not worth living....yea that doesnt sit right. like great the telepaths couldnt live in their group because of their differences but now they found a new group that will not care for anyone different from them but its ok now cause they fit in to the 'superior' group that 'deserves to live'...