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I usually stay away from anything too "speculative." I glaze over too quickly when I cannot anchor myself in a concrete understanding of stakes or at least the rules of the realm/why any of it matters.
I’m okay with speculative fiction and SF (less so fantasy with dragons etc) as long as it’s recognisably human. That’s not really the problem with this book for me. It’s more that the stakes are intentionally vague. The book is more like a fable or Kafkaesque setting, with modern day reference points like cell phones, but the allegory is unclear.
Yeah, and that would make it hard for me to want to keep going with it. I almost picked this book up, but it was reviews like yours that made me think I'd probably not be interested.
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Oct 26, 2026 11:30AM
I usually stay away from anything too "speculative." I glaze over too quickly when I cannot anchor myself in a concrete understanding of stakes or at least the rules of the realm/why any of it matters.
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I’m okay with speculative fiction and SF (less so fantasy with dragons etc) as long as it’s recognisably human. That’s not really the problem with this book for me. It’s more that the stakes are intentionally vague. The book is more like a fable or Kafkaesque setting, with modern day reference points like cell phones, but the allegory is unclear.
Yeah, and that would make it hard for me to want to keep going with it. I almost picked this book up, but it was reviews like yours that made me think I'd probably not be interested.