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목소리를 드릴게요
- GenresShort Stories
272 pages, Audiobook
Published March 23, 2020
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Chung Serang
20 books32 followersAssociated Names:
* 정세랑 (Korean)
* Chung Serang (English)
* ชองเซรัง (Thai)
* チョン・セラン (Japan)
Chung Serang (정세랑) is a South Korean science fiction and fantasy writer.
* 정세랑 (Korean)
* Chung Serang (English)
* ชองเซรัง (Thai)
* チョン・セラン (Japan)
Chung Serang (정세랑) is a South Korean science fiction and fantasy writer.
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August 20, 2021A short story collection by Cung Serang. The colorful cover tricked me into thinking it would be a collection of romcoms, but it turned out to be sci-fi of various intensity levels. The stories are very different quality-wise, I liked half of them and wasn't sure why the other half was even there.
The good stories, ranked from best to worst:
목소리를 드릴게요 / I'll give you my voice
The story which gave the name to the collection happens to be the best one in the book. An asylum-setting story which is equally tender and absurd. The title played out in the most beautiful way possible.
메달리스트의 좀비 시대 / The medalist's zombie era
Standing on the rooftop and stepping on the bowstring with her foot, she aimed at her chin. Damn... I should have chosen gun shooting? That was the first time Jung Yun contemplated her choice
Goosebumps.
11분의1 / One eleventh
How can you describe a person as "made from straight lines, as if he was drawn by a small child who could draw only straight lines" and still make it feel romantic? A romance with cryonics and fossils. Yes please. Now I know what adenoviruses and viral vectors are.
The ending though was way too ridiculous and I just couldn't believe it...
리셋 / Reset
Post-ap with giant worm. Trigger warning, I guess. It seems that the author has done her research on worm types, which I appreciate. I generally like people with obscure hobbies, and the mc with her worm obsession is definitely someone I'd want to hang out with.
However, it's basically impossible to bring anything new to the post-apocalypse subgenre. Even giant worms didn't make the story feel fresh. And the message that humanity should care more about environment, while being important, was anything but subtle, especially after the time skip. The utopic part was incredibly boring, I skipped the last few pages entirely.
Stories I didn't like, in no particular order:
미싱 핑거와 점핑 걸의 대모험 / The big adventure of the Missing Finger and the Jumping Girl
Uh, okay. The shortest story in the collection (just three pages in me pdf file). Also, the most pointless one. Absurdism by itself is not cool.
모조 지구 혁명기 / The revolution on the fake Earth
As pointless as the previous one, but longer. Again, out-of-context absurdism is not interesting, it's just confusing.
I liked the opening line though: It's like two 15cm-long teeth growing out at once. That's what the angel answered with a dark face expression when I asked how it felt when the wings were growing out.
리틀 베이비블루 필 / Little baby blue pill
"What if..." speculative story which feels like a description of a sci-fi book setting - no characters, no human interactions, no storytelling, just an essay on how the future might look like.
7교시 / Lesson 7
It's like "Reset" but without the worm part. Just future people talking about how bad the 21st century was.
P.S. Language remarks
Chung Serang's vocabulary is intense. Everything from scientific vocab to very particular cultural references. Each story comes with a new vocab pack. At times I couldn't read more than 2-3 pages at once because I got tired from constant dictionary consulting. Compared to other books I've read in Korean, it's on a whole new difficulty level. (It was so much fun deciphering the text of the stories I liked, but not so much on of those I didn't like)
The good stories, ranked from best to worst:
목소리를 드릴게요 / I'll give you my voice
The story which gave the name to the collection happens to be the best one in the book. An asylum-setting story which is equally tender and absurd. The title played out in the most beautiful way possible.
메달리스트의 좀비 시대 / The medalist's zombie era
Standing on the rooftop and stepping on the bowstring with her foot, she aimed at her chin. Damn... I should have chosen gun shooting? That was the first time Jung Yun contemplated her choice
Goosebumps.
11분의1 / One eleventh
How can you describe a person as "made from straight lines, as if he was drawn by a small child who could draw only straight lines" and still make it feel romantic? A romance with cryonics and fossils. Yes please. Now I know what adenoviruses and viral vectors are.
The ending though was way too ridiculous and I just couldn't believe it...
리셋 / Reset
Post-ap with giant worm. Trigger warning, I guess. It seems that the author has done her research on worm types, which I appreciate. I generally like people with obscure hobbies, and the mc with her worm obsession is definitely someone I'd want to hang out with.
However, it's basically impossible to bring anything new to the post-apocalypse subgenre. Even giant worms didn't make the story feel fresh. And the message that humanity should care more about environment, while being important, was anything but subtle, especially after the time skip. The utopic part was incredibly boring, I skipped the last few pages entirely.
Stories I didn't like, in no particular order:
미싱 핑거와 점핑 걸의 대모험 / The big adventure of the Missing Finger and the Jumping Girl
Uh, okay. The shortest story in the collection (just three pages in me pdf file). Also, the most pointless one. Absurdism by itself is not cool.
모조 지구 혁명기 / The revolution on the fake Earth
As pointless as the previous one, but longer. Again, out-of-context absurdism is not interesting, it's just confusing.
I liked the opening line though: It's like two 15cm-long teeth growing out at once. That's what the angel answered with a dark face expression when I asked how it felt when the wings were growing out.
리틀 베이비블루 필 / Little baby blue pill
"What if..." speculative story which feels like a description of a sci-fi book setting - no characters, no human interactions, no storytelling, just an essay on how the future might look like.
7교시 / Lesson 7
It's like "Reset" but without the worm part. Just future people talking about how bad the 21st century was.
P.S. Language remarks
Chung Serang's vocabulary is intense. Everything from scientific vocab to very particular cultural references. Each story comes with a new vocab pack. At times I couldn't read more than 2-3 pages at once because I got tired from constant dictionary consulting. Compared to other books I've read in Korean, it's on a whole new difficulty level. (It was so much fun deciphering the text of the stories I liked, but not so much on of those I didn't like)
February 21, 2022
Favorite: 리틀 베이비블루 필, 목소리를 드릴게요
June 16, 2024
ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE
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