I keep meaning to give City of Brass a try—I’ll need to do that this year.
I really wanted to like Space Opera too! I do like both of those things, even! The feeling I had while reading was that it kept trying very hard to be Douglas Adams-y while mostly not...quite succeeding? The tangents weren’t quite as absurd or as biting or as funny as they could’ve been, imo, so they just felt unnecessary a lot of the time. I don’t know, it was a somewhat frustrating reading experience for me. I kept waiting for the book to click and it never did.
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Date: 2019-02-28 07:36 pm (UTC)I really wanted to like Space Opera too! I do like both of those things, even! The feeling I had while reading was that it kept trying very hard to be Douglas Adams-y while mostly not...quite succeeding? The tangents weren’t quite as absurd or as biting or as funny as they could’ve been, imo, so they just felt unnecessary a lot of the time. I don’t know, it was a somewhat frustrating reading experience for me. I kept waiting for the book to click and it never did.
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