3 1/2I did quite enjoy a lot of these but the collection took an unfortunate turn toward labored satire/farce toward the end. Sheckley has a PKD aspect to his stuff: I've often felt that Dick sometimes just stuck sci/fi elements into his books as a backdrop to his larger agenda (not that I'm co...
Chapter 32 and 33, the last two chapters, were superlative, resolving enough of the issues raised within the story to please a reader, but the book throughout featured so many missed-opportunities I have to give a mixed review. In reading other reviews and the blurbs on the book it seems a critic...
I am a big fan of both The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Neil Gaiman, so when I saw that this was one of Neil's recommended/produced audiobooks, and that it was very similar to HHGTTG (though it came first), I decided to give it a listen. And it was... interesting. It was quirky and differ...
Treading the thin line between wheels-within-wheels mystery and shaggy dog story, this is dated but still justifies the jacket quote from Douglas Adams. I had forgotten almost the whole book since first reading it (the few exceptions inevitably including one of the mucky bits, plus the scene wher...