I enjoy trippy, alternate-universe texts, and I was looking forward to my library book club discussing Dark Matter for our February meeting. I had heard good things about this novel, and I wanted to see how it would play out. Jason Dessen is a professor at a community college living in Chicago. He goes out to celebrate his friend’s winning a prestigious award—one he had wanted to win in the years before he met his wife, got her pregnant, and then raised their child—and is […]
Are you happy with your life?
Jason Dessen is living a good life. He has a decent job, a wife he loves, and a son in a little brownstone in Chicago. Sure there’s choices that he made in the past, choices that he wonders about, but for the most part he is happy. “As long as I’m with you, I know exactly who I am.” One day, coming home from a bar he’s almost hit by a car. And then he’s kidnapped. He doesn’t know why or where, he’s knocked out […]
Dark Matter feels like a slightly deceptive title
The title Dark Matter feels a little bit deceptive as “dark matter” is only brought up once. However something more accurate like, “Putting humans in a quantum state of superposition and the consequences” is a little awkward as a title. Regardless, Dark Matter is a taut science fiction thriller, with dashes of mystery and true love. Jason Dessen lives an ordinary life. Married to the love of his life, Daniela, raising their son Charlie together, and working as a college professor. Every once in a while, […]
Stepford Town, but not as clever.
I recently got off work a bit early (one of the many down sides of being a Fry Minion, you get sent home because of “labor costs.”) and having nothing to do but surf my phone, downloaded a reader (how did I live without one?) and started perusing my to-be-read pile, which is quite large. Wayward was one of the first books in the stack, (it was ahead of its prequel, even, which I have not read.) I’m used to starting series in the middle […]
Twin Peaksy Thrilling Suspense!
“There was darkness everywhere humans gathered. The way of the world.” This throwaway line in the first book of Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy could also serve as the series’ thesis: No matter where people commune, no matter their intentions or desires, enmity lurks. It’s just how we are as a species. Pines explores this concept in a dream-like setting that will be familiar to anyone who has seen more than two minutes of Twin Peaks. In fact, Crouch has been very forward about Twin Peaks‘ influence on his own book […]
Pseudoscience and Nonsense
Man, this book was not good. Maybe not terrible (although, maybe terrible), but really not good. The premise was okay, but the writing was almost painfully bad. No, it wasn’t as bad as the dumpster fire that is Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards (I’m linking to it not so you’ll read it, but so you can see the cover & know to never, ever pick it up). And it was marginally better than the very poorly written America Pacifica (again, please don’t read, just be aware […]
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