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Terrible the first time through, amazing on re-read

Blindsight by Peter Watts

February 19, 2024 by genericwhitegirl 2 Comments

This book was so good, I read it twice. And I don’t mean, I read it years ago and wanted to read it again, like LittlePlat mentioned in their review (which is what got me to pick up this book!). No, I read it (or rather, listened to it) about a week ago, finished it feeling I hadn’t retained much, and then immediately re-read it. On the first go, I was constantly confused about what was going on and who the various characters were. I […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Blindsight, peter watts, scootchyknees

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Blindsight, peter watts, scootchyknees ·
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Best Re-Read to Date! Re-Read with Friends!

Blindsight by Peter Watts

December 23, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Dear God, there are many days left in the year as there are books I need to review to complete a half cannonball… Let’s see how I go. Blindsight This is hard, depressing science fiction at its best, and one that certainly left a mark on me when I first came across it about 10 years ago. I hadn’t really thought about giving a re-read until recently when I was sitting at Book Club one evening and it was time to play the game of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Blightsight, conciousness, FireFall, peter watts, unless you are cynical sod like me where instead everything will be terribly funny, we will all cry

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Blightsight, conciousness, FireFall, peter watts, unless you are cynical sod like me where instead everything will be terribly funny, we will all cry ·
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Staging a space mutiny, one day at a time.

December 2, 2018 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

For some reason, my 2018 books have not been page-turners, and I am not sure why.  I’ve picked up a lot of books that are enjoyable but not dying-to-see-what-happens good.  This was one of the few exceptions, recommended to me by my avid sci-fi reader husband. The best way to go about this book is to just dive in with no expectations.  It is…a bit confusing.  There are whole sentences that I couldn’t really parse, but got the gist of, enough to keep reading and […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: freeze-frame revolution, peter watts, you should probably read this

Fiat.Luxury's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: freeze-frame revolution, peter watts, you should probably read this ·
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