tivasyk started reading I Shot the Buddha by Colin Cotterill

I Shot the Buddha by Colin Cotterill
"Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. …
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"Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. …
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 …