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A review by cebolla
The Ballad of Beta 2 by Samuel R. Delany
3.0
Samuel Delany would probably be one of my first choices of people to lock myself in a room with and drop a bunch of acid. Hogg and Dhalgren messed with my mind so hard that I wasn't able to think clearly for months afterwords. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue opened up new pathways in my mind. The Ballad of Beta 2 though, wasn't quite as life altering.
I like the premise of the book, I like the trip it took me on, and I like that it made my use my imagination--this book was quite obviously written by a genius. However, it seems to me like he tried to hard, like maybe he was trying to see how many novels he could write in a single month and just banged this one out.
To be fair, if almost anyone else in the world had written this book, I would have probably given it four stars, but I hold Chip to a higher standard.
I like the premise of the book, I like the trip it took me on, and I like that it made my use my imagination--this book was quite obviously written by a genius. However, it seems to me like he tried to hard, like maybe he was trying to see how many novels he could write in a single month and just banged this one out.
To be fair, if almost anyone else in the world had written this book, I would have probably given it four stars, but I hold Chip to a higher standard.