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zeert 's review for:
Blindsight
by Peter Watts
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
wow. this was a real slog for me, i won’t lie! respect to watts and what he’s going for, but i found the writing to be off-putting stylistically and the narrative to be off-puttingly masochistic and pessimistic. from a scientific perspective, inane junk is introduced just as quickly as plausible, theory-based ideas, and neither are given enough time to breathe. the novel is hard to follow at times, and the dialogue is tough — fractionated and more than a little cringey at times. the narrator is also a laughably bad person, which i realize is part of the point (and contributed to an eventual twist in the novel), but wow. hard to stick with this guy for 300 pages when he makes you wish he’d been bullied harder in school every page 😭 cool aliens though. vampires rock. just a little too pretentious and overwrought in both thought and language for my tastes! but i can understand why people would be drawn to it, and we are all different after all.
to me? more a vehicle for the author’s cynical musings than a novel. who cares if consciousness is real or not. it is all we have.
to me? more a vehicle for the author’s cynical musings than a novel. who cares if consciousness is real or not. it is all we have.