‘Good Ol’ Murderbot Adventure’ Score: 5/5 Back to the Murderbot series. This is a longer story, but it’s still the same ol’ Murderbot, still pining for daytime TV dramas. The story length means there’s more going on and it takes longer, but I still managed to romp through the pages. Very enjoyable.
‘What Was That About?’ Score: 3/5 I’ve really no idea what to make of this book. It’s said to ‘defy categorisation’ and it does. And it certainly pokes fun at 1930s-era Soviet life. But is it any good? I honestly don’t know. The dialogue seemed awful, but maybe that’s a cultural thing? Maybe people really spoke like that in the 1930s? And I felt like much of the point of the book, much of the sa…
‘I Didn’t Enjoy This’ Score: 1/5 I really didn’t enjoy this book. It felt like the author was using his vocabulary to bludgeon me into accepting his superior intelligence. For example: The episcopate of this pop-reference movement were the post-Nabokovian Black Humorists, the Metaficitonsists and assorted franc- and latinophiles only later comprised by…
‘More Westerns In Space’ Score: 4/5 I think I like these Murderbot stories because they’re just so like old westerns, but set in space. With an anxiety-ridden Murderbot instead of a ‘drifter’, planets/stations instead of settlements, and a constant feed of soap operas instead of... Well, OK, it’s maybe not a perfect simile.
‘Loving These Murderbot Stories’ Score: 5/5 I may be becoming addicted to this murderbot and his love of soaps. It now bothers me that there aren’t dozens more of these available.
