Reviews and Comments

started reading this last night as i was scouring my ereader for a new book, and stumbled across it already on there, waiting

it's freely (and afaik legally, being authored 1920) available online from multiple sources, just give the title a search. i find the dialogue format excellent reading, it's probably one of my favourite devices next to the epistolary novel format

i liked how this started (right in the middle of the action! a very different world to the one i inhabit! that 2011 sci-fi novel feel) but around 2/5ths in it started going really crap with the plot

i'm not sure if i fooled myself by the promising start but i also feel like the writing worsened in the last half?

do not recommend lol, just dutifully finishing this rn

book 3 maintains the essence of the series but manages to stray away enough from what kept me captivated in 1 and 2 such that i feel satiated to stop here. for now, anyway (and thank the guidestars for that!)

finished reading kallocain during lunch, it has such luscious sentences

it feels like a poem wearing the guise of a novel. the first time i tried to read it, i read like i would any other novel. but for me, it only revealed itself, and was frankly only understandable, when taking the pace down a few notches

i don't know what translation keeps the dreamy poetry of its sentences intact; you could always learn swedish

Superb book, absolutely addictive, and wonderfully written. For other readers of a similar specious worry: it does not take place on a spacestation, but very much so on planet Earth.

started this a while back, bounced hard. saw rave reviews on bookwyrm and went "wait a minute... maybe it's Actually Good?" so i took another go at it. it was indeed actually good!!

read about half and felt "yup! i'm done with this book"

not bad, not great. very much wears its serializiation origins on its cuffs so to speak

felt like a re-read of this for some reason :~

absolute banger, hard to believe this was written before the first world war because god dang it describes many facets of modern society exceedingly well