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"Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. …
dropped at 82%. this just never «clicked» for me.
i think i'll have to abandon this one too. started out pretty good, but fonally it's so overdone, overdramatic, constant internal monologue, so ya-ish it's boring. i'm at 82% but i must have slept through half of it :-(
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology …
could not continue, must abandon.
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology …
nope, this did not work for me: a) the story is stiched together from short micro-stories of different people, too short for me to develop any kind of connection; b) monologues presented as speech or letters sound unnatural, people don't talk like that, this kills the immersion; c) the detalization is insufficient at some places, excessive at others, in exactly the way that annoyed me the most; d) the robotic rebellion is… just too hollywood'ishly cliché and simplistic, devoid of life; not sure how to explain it.
must abandon.
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will …
i liked it. a bit underwhelming ending, but in general i have enjoyed «the terminal experiment» quite a lot.
a clever interesting explanation of how humor works.
another beautiful, beautiful scientific intro, this time into how mating in human societies works, to show how little choice we actually have, contrary to our distorted perception. love it.
this one is my kind of read. a mix of sci-fi and detective thriller, and a very readable one at that.
the decomposition of the classical «after death experience» is a thing of beauty, we need more of tge raw scientific explanations to our ignorances like that.
