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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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  • This product had a total of 10,728 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 28 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I had been meaning to buy this book but the 2


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Deduct one star if you’ve never watched star trek


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    And thats where the brilliance comes in buried within layer after layer of this ubermeta novel


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Could probably been turn to a short run tv series


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The codas were splinters off of the main story

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