RE: Books to Avoid
March 23, 2014 at 12:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2014 at 12:52 am by Alex K.)
The eye of Argon...
No, but seriously: The Last Theorem by fucking Arthur C Clarke and some guy named Pohl. It's such a mess. Ok, there's the story of a young guy who discovers his homorotic tendencies and has a run in with his father. That's a relatively pointless, somewhat tedious, but at least readable plotline. The remainder? It must be the most climsily shoehorned in space alien plot line I've ever seen, and that includes my attempts at writing SF when I was 15. There is supposed to be big excitement about space elevators in the protagonist, but there is nothing there, no substance. There is supposed to be this deep connection of the main character with maths, and in particular fermats last theorem, but the maths explanations in between were partly trite, trivial, or even wrong! The only explanatian I have is that ACC was too decrepid to notice that someone stole his lettethead to send in their homoerotic fermat space alien fanfic under his name. Unbefuckinglievable. Gave up when the aliens were mentioned the third time round or so. I was like: WTF??? Life is too short!
No, but seriously: The Last Theorem by fucking Arthur C Clarke and some guy named Pohl. It's such a mess. Ok, there's the story of a young guy who discovers his homorotic tendencies and has a run in with his father. That's a relatively pointless, somewhat tedious, but at least readable plotline. The remainder? It must be the most climsily shoehorned in space alien plot line I've ever seen, and that includes my attempts at writing SF when I was 15. There is supposed to be big excitement about space elevators in the protagonist, but there is nothing there, no substance. There is supposed to be this deep connection of the main character with maths, and in particular fermats last theorem, but the maths explanations in between were partly trite, trivial, or even wrong! The only explanatian I have is that ACC was too decrepid to notice that someone stole his lettethead to send in their homoerotic fermat space alien fanfic under his name. Unbefuckinglievable. Gave up when the aliens were mentioned the third time round or so. I was like: WTF??? Life is too short!
