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A review by kris_mccracken
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
1.0
There is a few hours that I'll never get back.
I'll be honest, I'm at a bit of a loss to see why this is rated so highly. There are certainly many, ah, words here. And, ah, the whole "time war" things is very, um, 'interesting'.
Who am I kidding? It strikes me as full of highfalutin guff. Utterly pretentious in its incoherence and desire to overwhelm the reader with (what is the right expression...?) "poetic obfuscation".
Yeah, the 'twist' wasn't much of a twist and I found myself frustrated at wading through all of the gibberish (both conceptual and linguistic), only to find that that was it.
Better to not waste your time.
I'll be honest, I'm at a bit of a loss to see why this is rated so highly. There are certainly many, ah, words here. And, ah, the whole "time war" things is very, um, 'interesting'.
Who am I kidding? It strikes me as full of highfalutin guff. Utterly pretentious in its incoherence and desire to overwhelm the reader with (what is the right expression...?) "poetic obfuscation".
Yeah, the 'twist' wasn't much of a twist and I found myself frustrated at wading through all of the gibberish (both conceptual and linguistic), only to find that that was it.
Better to not waste your time.