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Title: Oh, please
Review: A huge disappointment. Another "serious" sci-fi novel that makes everything opaque and tedious and intentionally baffling so no one will mistake it for "kid-stuff". This book says "I'm literature, dammit!" and attempts to prove it with lots of smoke and mirrors. Divided into three parts, each of which offers its own irritating aspects. Part one is the least annoying (that's not saying much). Part two is narrated in pseudo hippy-dippy Native American Cosmic-Speak. Part 3 is set mostly in a cartoonish, unintentional parody of a hellish prison, run by the evillest of evil evil-guys (including imperious slave owners who are often French- Haw!). Is this one guy actually an alien? Or is that guy? Have they themselves forgotten? Is this a meditation on identity? Oh, who gives a...
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