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A review by ryan_dm
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
2.0
***This review contains hyperbole.***
This book might be worse (but almost certainly not better) than my rating suggests.
I zoned out from it frequently. Going back and listening to parts again was no help. It's as if some paragraphs and entire chapters had a stealth spell caste upon them that made me forget them immediately.
What I do recall from this book (that I've just finished reading in a single day with no actual distractions) is that if you tore a page out of every fantasy and science fiction novel that you and your local library own, then collated those pages into a book, you'd still have less ideas than the Many-Coloured Land manages to squeeze in and be only slightly less coherent. I'm all for authors being ambitious with their works but I also want them to give ideas time and room to grow. This book throws (what should be) unrelated and unoriginal ideas at you every couple of pages with the end result being disinterest and apathy.
I read this so you don't have to.
This book might be worse (but almost certainly not better) than my rating suggests.
I zoned out from it frequently. Going back and listening to parts again was no help. It's as if some paragraphs and entire chapters had a stealth spell caste upon them that made me forget them immediately.
What I do recall from this book (that I've just finished reading in a single day with no actual distractions) is that if you tore a page out of every fantasy and science fiction novel that you and your local library own, then collated those pages into a book, you'd still have less ideas than the Many-Coloured Land manages to squeeze in and be only slightly less coherent. I'm all for authors being ambitious with their works but I also want them to give ideas time and room to grow. This book throws (what should be) unrelated and unoriginal ideas at you every couple of pages with the end result being disinterest and apathy.
I read this so you don't have to.