lnklnx reviewed The Titan's Ghost by Andrew M F Grafton
In a future where AI dominates and human ambition wanes, Alex Renner dares to defy …
Boring beyond belief
1 star
In the first three chapters, all I learned was that the author loves the sound of his own voice. They used an absolute avalanche of words to describe the smallest thing.
A concrete example - the protagonist is departing on a shuttle; for reasons that escape me, it took three pages for them to get on board the shuttle from the tarmac. Then three more pages for them to contemplate this choice. Then six more pages describing the travel from surface to station (which was uneventful, normal and without incident).
Picture someone using twelve pages to describe going to the airport and flying a commuter plane to a destination, during which nothing abnormal happened, and you have a sense of it.
I tried to hang in there for this to taper to a sane level, but after a few more chapters I gave up. Some may like this style, but …
In the first three chapters, all I learned was that the author loves the sound of his own voice. They used an absolute avalanche of words to describe the smallest thing.
A concrete example - the protagonist is departing on a shuttle; for reasons that escape me, it took three pages for them to get on board the shuttle from the tarmac. Then three more pages for them to contemplate this choice. Then six more pages describing the travel from surface to station (which was uneventful, normal and without incident).
Picture someone using twelve pages to describe going to the airport and flying a commuter plane to a destination, during which nothing abnormal happened, and you have a sense of it.
I tried to hang in there for this to taper to a sane level, but after a few more chapters I gave up. Some may like this style, but I was bored to tears.
