I ripped through it yesterday in a few hours’ time. It was so… flimsy? Like more of a too-long short story or merely an outline of an idea? It was as if Mandel just had to get something, anything to the publisher to fulfill a contract real quick. The author character made me never ever want to write a book. The characters had no depth, the concepts weren’t fleshed out, and the vision of the future wasn’t credible to me. What did everyone else think?

  • aprettylittlebird@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I loved it! The writing is beautiful and I honestly liked the way the deeper themes were handled. Not everything has to be explained to death to be meaningful in my opinion. I can appreciate how that style wouldn’t work for everyone though!