Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don’t get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.
It happens sometimes.
I really enjoyed the movie Arrival, so I picked up the story collection it’s based on. My, what a load of genre fiction in the worst possible meaning of the word.
oh no, Ted Chiang is a delight!
Ted Chiang is one of my favourite authors.
Seriously ? I loved Tower of Babel, hate arrival the movie 😅
Even worse take. Arrival is ass!