Renee K. - reviewed How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel on + 14 more book reviews
This book is outstanding. The stories are fun and new and literary. This book made me read everything else he wrote and his newest just won the Natl. Book Award. This guy can write!
Leigh reviewed How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel on + 378 more book reviews
Automatically, this book receives a one-star rating for having a paradox. I hate that crap and when there are writers like Connie Willis out there doing it right, I don't need to waste my time with Charles Yu.
This is one of those books that makes sense only to the author; it reminded me of China Mieville's The City & The City in that none of it made sense.
Also irritating was the semi-stream-of-consciousness writing that appeared at random points throughout the novel. Obviously this main character was as clueless about what he was thinking as the author was. And considering they were one and the same, that's unsurprising. I can't stand it when an author puts him/herself as a character in a book. Ugh. Give me some Philip K. Dick to wash this nasty book from my mind.
This is one of those books that makes sense only to the author; it reminded me of China Mieville's The City & The City in that none of it made sense.
Also irritating was the semi-stream-of-consciousness writing that appeared at random points throughout the novel. Obviously this main character was as clueless about what he was thinking as the author was. And considering they were one and the same, that's unsurprising. I can't stand it when an author puts him/herself as a character in a book. Ugh. Give me some Philip K. Dick to wash this nasty book from my mind.
