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A review by root
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
This was awful. Singlehandedly got me to stop reading for a couple months and is also the first book I've DNF'd in years. I contemplated powering through it, but it had me dreading reading so much that I decided to finally put it down.
The pacing, the narration, the dialogue, the very weird racial comments...just truly bad. There are some sections of it that read like the author describing the wikiHow article for things like IV injections or reading about how HIPAA works but without ever having actually checked how hospitals talk about HIPAA to patients. I read a few excerpts out loud to a friend recently as a joke.
It also doesn't make any sense if you know anything about how research works, how science is generally conducted, how doctors work, etc...definitely not for anyone with laboratory experience, has been to the doctor for anything more serious than a cold at least once, ridden a taxi before, or any other life experiences that will just jar you right out of the story.
The pacing, the narration, the dialogue, the very weird racial comments...just truly bad. There are some sections of it that read like the author describing the wikiHow article for things like IV injections or reading about how HIPAA works but without ever having actually checked how hospitals talk about HIPAA to patients. I read a few excerpts out loud to a friend recently as a joke.
It also doesn't make any sense if you know anything about how research works, how science is generally conducted, how doctors work, etc...definitely not for anyone with laboratory experience, has been to the doctor for anything more serious than a cold at least once, ridden a taxi before, or any other life experiences that will just jar you right out of the story.