Helpful votes received on reviews:
58% (7 of 12)
In My Own Words:
sci-fi nut, astronomy junkie, fashion whore, and writer wannabe.
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Oh the irreverent humor! Oh those nasty Peackeepers. Luxans, Delvians, Hynerians - oh my! So much more than the bumpy heads of Star Trek. Gone is stick up the butt prime directive. Gone are the sterile environments of starships. Gone are the impeccable makeup and hair. Welcome to the rough and tumble jungle of the Uncharted territories. Farscape is pure space opera - a tale of a lost human astronaut who's tossed out of a wormhole right into the thick of a Peacekeeper battle. He gets picked up by a straggling crew of prisoners in a living ship called Moya. They get dirty. They get shot at, sliced, and tortured. They don't always do the right thing but they are survivors and fighters. Now… Read more
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I am sure that I am not the only one that suspects that Card wrote Ender's Shadow to take one final squeeze out of the cash cow that is Ender's Game. How fitting the book is called Ender's Shadow, because it IS the same story, the same characters, only paler in comparison. Bean is an interesting character and perhaps Card should have expounded more on the other battle school kids earlier, but to retrofit the story this way is just plain unnecessary. It lacks the newness, uniqueness, and ultimately - the surprise ending of the original. Most of the book is rehashing the same events of EG, but with a seething, gnashing jealous, yet superior, Bean in the background. With the help of Sister… Read more
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Perdido Street Station is a boiling, festering, rotten, dilapidated, steamy mess. No not the city - the book. As impressive as the New Crobozun and its citizens are, the plot is as palatable as the city itself. Yes, yes, this carnival of horrors boasts: a de-winged birdmen/poet, walking cacti living in a greenhouse village, Shelob on acid, a sentient cleaning-bot, and a bland scientist who releases a terrible moth like beast upon its queer alien inhabitants. Hmmm...all components of a dark fantasy indeed. I had gotten the impression that this was a dystopia. No such philosophical ramifications here. It's just another horror story. It lacks that overall "Oomph" to make it a purportedly… Read more
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