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drew1013 's review for:
The Crack in Space
by Philip K. Dick
Gave up at page 70, and this is my first DNF of 2018 with no plans to come back. Reasons:
* Poorly written. High school creative writing level exposition, characters, and line by line writing
* Way too many characters with few defining features
* Too many political machinations in a book about another dimension. Maybe the blurb was misleading. They got my money, I guess. While I see that PKD was going for racial and social commentary, it’s so poorly executed that page by page, I’m not engaged and it’s all just badly written political drama
* The first few pages are jam packed with abbreviations and jargon words, many of which are nonsensical and meant to make it sound “future-y.”
* Some scenes make no sense spatially (how did that just happen if they’re in a crowded place?)
* My edition had tons of punctuation missing. Not really a knock against the novel itself, I suppose. Unless it attests to the manuscript being hastily pushed out and given little to no editing attention
PKD must have had a deadline and stayed up for 3 days banging this one out, possibly under the influence of something. I’ve read several of his novels, even a couple beyond the standard greatest hits, and this one was by far the worst executed.
* Poorly written. High school creative writing level exposition, characters, and line by line writing
* Way too many characters with few defining features
* Too many political machinations in a book about another dimension. Maybe the blurb was misleading. They got my money, I guess. While I see that PKD was going for racial and social commentary, it’s so poorly executed that page by page, I’m not engaged and it’s all just badly written political drama
* The first few pages are jam packed with abbreviations and jargon words, many of which are nonsensical and meant to make it sound “future-y.”
* Some scenes make no sense spatially (how did that just happen if they’re in a crowded place?)
* My edition had tons of punctuation missing. Not really a knock against the novel itself, I suppose. Unless it attests to the manuscript being hastily pushed out and given little to no editing attention
PKD must have had a deadline and stayed up for 3 days banging this one out, possibly under the influence of something. I’ve read several of his novels, even a couple beyond the standard greatest hits, and this one was by far the worst executed.