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System Collapse de Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
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Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
It's quite long, but I enjoy the pure serial-ness of the writing. It was published in a newspaper, so you had to keep the readers coming for more, I guess. Will anything will ever be resolved? I still have more than half the book to find out.
Samit Basu doesn’t lack humour and imagination, which make this story very enjoyable. His previous books have mixed cultural and political elements of Indian life with fantasy and science fiction, enriching old westerner tropes and bringing new life to genres that have for too long been only explored by white dudes.
The heart of the story is the question: if you were living in a world menaced by sea rise and dominated by ultra rich factions, and if you found a magic lamp with a genie, what would you ask them? Of course you’d have first to find said magic lamp, and fight your way to keep it when the whole power structure wants it too. Luckily in this scenario you’d be a mischievous monkey robot with delusions of grandeur…
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Le style de ce deuxième volume est plus supportable que celui du premier, quoique j’aie quand même eu des problèmes de ponctuation et d’espaces. C’est une sorte de Rashōmon : on redécouvre la même histoire que le précédent volume, depuis le point de vue de Benvenuto, le héros de Gagner la Guerre. Comme le narrateur est différent, le style est différent. Pas plus mal, mais au final je reste un peu sur ma faim—trop peu de choses sont racontées qui font avancer l’intrigue. Tout la complique en revanche, c’est intéressant mais… je veux aller plus loin :)
Bref, on verra l’an prochain pour la suite, j’imagine ?
Comme mentionné dans mon commentaire sur le même titre, j’ai trouvé que le style péchait par trop de fioritures et le rythme par trop d’irrégularité. Et les cliffhangers, ça fait quand même passé. En plus de ça ma copie du livre avait des problèmes typographiques/SR (espaces avant/après les ponctuations)
En revanche le propos est vivant, l’histoire tient en haleine si on passe outre les défauts.
A very good work of fantasy playing with deeper concepts than “magical secret orphan prince” tropes. The long time I spent reading it is unrelated to its quality (but more related to my brain's bandwidth capacity these last 6 months). The characters are compelling, the Aragorn-type is way more human than Tolkien’s Aragorn and the bad guys are well rounded and have interesting motivations. On the other hand I don’t remember if the book passes the Bechdel Test and the women roles could have been bigger.
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