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Space Opera
by Catherynne M. Valente
This is an absolutely delightful, wildly original and hilarious book. And let's be honest, there aren't a ton of consistently and deliberately funny books out there - and the world needs a bit more laughter.
I love the commitment to the idea of Eurovision in space down to the downright campiness and consistent absurdity of it all.
The imagination of what other forms of "sentience" could be and their motivators blew me away.
My only, but not insignificant, critique of the book is that the author sometimes just got carried away with the sidebar tangent descriptions of these other species - in many ways, this was where the book was the most Douglas Adams-esque. And I loved it at the beginning, but there were SO many of these that I kind of got overwhelmed/bored by them and started skimming to get back to the main plot of the story.
I love the commitment to the idea of Eurovision in space down to the downright campiness and consistent absurdity of it all.
The imagination of what other forms of "sentience" could be and their motivators blew me away.
My only, but not insignificant, critique of the book is that the author sometimes just got carried away with the sidebar tangent descriptions of these other species - in many ways, this was where the book was the most Douglas Adams-esque. And I loved it at the beginning, but there were SO many of these that I kind of got overwhelmed/bored by them and started skimming to get back to the main plot of the story.