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Pros
If you don't know what a coda is, you need to read this. Interesting concept for a book. There’s something ineffable about his writing. This is one of those rare reads that will also be a re-read someday soon.
Redshirts by john scalzi is a fun and clever book. Everyone has their role in the grand scifi narrative…even the lower ranks. Scalzi does a good job of getting us to empathize and care about them.
The premise is that the protagonists are ensigns onboard the starship intrepid. The only problem is that serving aboard the ship is incredibly hazardous…especially for the away teams. Andrew dahl is a former alien seminary student and duvalle is the o... Read More
Cons
It really irritates me when characters are constantly quipping back and forth in the middle of a conversation. The story literally stops at 75% on kindle and then the last 25% is the author inserting himself into the story and trying to be funny. We g... Read More
Give it a pass unless you're really starved for halfway decent scifi. Scalzi's ok with a plot but not much with hard science. The fact that this particular scalzi work won the hugo award seems baffling.
Don't hope it will get better and plow through; it gets worse. This one…is a meta too far.
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I neednt have worried however redshirts is a hilarious read one that deconstructs one of the biggest running jokes of star tre... Read More
Without trying to give anything away the author intentionally writes a somewhat sporadic and thin narrative that is compelling ... Read More
Because of this i will stay with generalities
Shipping
The only problem is that serving aboard the ship is incredibly hazardous…especially for the away teams
Competitiveness
But for me it changed from a 4star good book to a 5star excellent book through coda 13
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I had been meaning to buy this book but the 2
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Deduct one star if you’ve never watched star trek
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Without trying to give anything away the author intentionally writes a somewhat sporadic and thin narrative that is compelling only for the absurdity of it mixed with the compulsion of wanting to know what happens nextkind of like a bad scifi show
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And thats where the brilliance comes in buried within layer after layer of this ubermeta novel
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In a kind of baitandswitch approach you dont find out the full degree of craft the author put into the novel and how intentionally insubstantial his writing style is until the end
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You really get two novels in onea cottoncandy scifi genre piece lacking any depth of character or situation and a deeper more intimate undercoating of substance and depth
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Could probably been turn to a short run tv series
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The codas were splinters off of the main story
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