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"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he is plunged through the cracks of reality into a world of shadows and darkness—the Neverwhere. Learn more | See related books
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Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan is just outside the fringes of what I normally like to read, and I found myself walking away from the book with a slightly muddled sense of satisfaction. The book left me with plenty of things to think about: human nature and certain philosophies being chief among them. Vonnegut does an excellent job building and shaping his characters. Malachi Constant, Beatrice Rumfoord and Winston Niles Rumfoord all felt very real to me and evoked a wide range of emotions over the course of the book.
The story is interesting and compelling as well; however, I did find the beginning of the book to be very bland and a bit off putting (I did later come to see the necessity of the beginning, but that did not make it anymore interesting to read while I was reading it.) Ultimately, I enjoyed the book and I would encourage people to read it, but I would only actively recommend this book to specific readers. If you want to explore human nature, follow one man on his quest for the meaning of life, or experience a small taste of just how indifferent and large the galaxy really is, I would highly recommend this book. If you’re looking for space battles, high action, or physical conflicts, I’d suggest you look elsewhere.
The Bad:
1. I felt the beginning of the book was weak. Vonnegut's writing struck me as somewhat circular and sometimes a bit wordy (this problem cleared up later. I’m not sure if I just got used to the style, or it slowly evaporated). I also had very little interest in the characters and found the story itself slow. The reasoning for this is revealed later in the book, but that doesn’t excuse having a blunt hook at the start of the story.
Vonnegut is not for everybody! There might be enough people that take him literally and might get offended by his remarks on religious zealotry, "righteous wars" and politics in general. But if you have a strong sense of humor and got disappointed at least once in life with the way history gets written by the victors and the truth gets distorted by the people in power, you will be delighted with this! It is the most thought-provoking book, and at any given point it might read as a non sci-fi with its deep observations on human relations: man-woman, rich-poor, religious/non-believer, war. At the same time it is the most satisfying sci-fi book ever, blows the esoteric Strugatsky or Lem away!!! I loved the quirkyness of the Chrono-synchlastic infundibulum concept, the sarcasm on the futility of what we bravely call Space exploration ( frustratingly slow and dangerous so far- with questionable results), humanity's typical behavior once they get there( start a war! ), some fascinatingly strange imaginings of Mercury and Titan... Just about when I thought it can't get any better, it suddenly does: Contact. The cherished Alien contact! There is a lot there and I will leave it to the reader to discover where The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got its inspiration! I just have to add that the landscapes of Titan ( when the 3 main characters plus the dog finally make it there), are some of the most hauntingly beautiful pages in sci-fi ever written! This book is written in 1959, way before Cassini sent the astounding images from the vicinity of Saturn... Vonnegut did his homework right! And yes, the philosophy that we are at our most happy when we stop worrying and enjoy the simple pleasures in life! This is a book for the eons, it's depths wrapped in humor, slowly, hauntingly sinking in...
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It is hard to believe this novel was published fifty six years ago. There is nothing dated in it. It could have been issued this year. While it entails space and time travel, it is not a conventional science fiction story -- it is simply another of Vonnegut's takes on the human condition that is cast as a fantasy. Considering the story was published just two years after the launching of Sputnik, you never have a sense that you often get from older science fiction tales that the author's prognostications on developments in science were a bit off target. Vonnegut's story makes no attempt to predict technological developments seriously. He has Martians invading earth in spaceships -- and of course, with a twinkle in his eye, he describes them as flying saucers. These kinds of touches kept me smiling throughout my reading of the book. As with all of Vonnegut's novels, you are filled with a sense of wistfulness after completing the last page. Vonnegut was a genius at capturing what Unamuno called "the tragic sense of life." ... And so it goes.
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A clever satire on the absurdity of meaning of life, universe and religion under the disguise of SF.
"The little machine from Tralfamadore, having delivered this message .... over a distance of one hundred and fifty thousand light years, bounded abruptly out of the courtyard and onto the beach outside. He killed himself out there. He took himself apart and threw his parts in all directions."
By the way, I did not see the typos in the Kindle edition about which there are so many complains! (Perhaps this a newer/ edited edition or I was too absorbed to notice!?
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