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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.75
Normally I don't go for futurespeak style narration, but somehow this one made it charming and I was along for the ride. I loved the heist style narration in the beginning and was just enjoying the technobabble and barely understandable slang.
Also a big fan of the world building in terms of luna society, marriage, etc.
My only gripes are that sometimes it's too hard to follow the futurespeak and I didn't like the mysterious death of Mike as an ending. I wanted him to go rogue.
Also a big fan of the world building in terms of luna society, marriage, etc.
My only gripes are that sometimes it's too hard to follow the futurespeak and I didn't like the mysterious death of Mike as an ending. I wanted him to go rogue.
William Golding, Lord of the flies Penguin Study Notes by Gillian E. Hanscombe
3.75
A compelling story told confusingly. At times it was harder to understand than books twice as old, and part of that is slang and dated language, but it's also written vaguely in a lot of places, and I had to reread things to figure out what I was supposed to infer from some obscure passage.
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
4.25
I was quite invested in the characters. The deaths were emotional
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
4.0
I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt, including some leeway for misogyny and assuming some of the cringe cliches were original for their time. I was not a fan of all the plot being delivered via dialogue. I preferred the first half, with the cool world building and unique psychology of Martian culture and language, to the second half's sex cult.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
5.0
I loved following the character in his journey toward knowledge, kinda a reverse flowers for algernon that was utterly immersive. The mystery and nature of the worldbuilding was awesome, and the reveal of the horrifying origin of the narrator is shocking and fits perfectly. I am usually not a fan of ambiguous endings, but this one works; I was a huge fan of getting inside the narrator's head and the various identities residing there. Beautiful but not ostentatious prose.