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Been switching between the audiobook and the paperback. I think I prefer the voice in my own head. But it’s fine.

It’s funny revisiting this franchise how I forgot how outright batshit insane it gets with movie gore and body horror.

Also how utterly useless David and John are as protagonists which is kind of the joke.

Listening to the audiobook.
It’s hard not to hear this in Jason Pargin’s voice

My first Tchaikovsky.

So far, it’s a lot of fun, but I’m surprised how… functional the writing is. It wouldn’t be fair to call it artless but it’s a lot of big ideas strung together with quite flat and basic prose and dialogue.

Picked this up again. It’s a slow book. A book to read on a holiday, out by the sea, somewhere cold with hearty food and gruff but cheerful people.

This book is pain. Depressing pain.

Still depressing

A curiously winding story, but the slim yet believable character work is what sells it.

Delightfully bad.

I do wish more of the segments that you hear in the show were present in context. But it is still a wonderfully silly book.

This is really good

The plot thickens, with subtle revelations.

I sense this is a story which will end with a quiet gasp of revelatory understanding.

I do find the Snowpiercer comics slightly thin at times. The stories are told so quickly and with the briefest setup and no nuance.

This is legitimately tedious and awful rambling self-indulgent rubbish.

This reads like a bad fan fiction writer’s knock-off of What We Do In the Shadows.

Dark, French and weird.

The stories aren’t quite tying together just yet, with only an hour of the audiobook left I’m slightly baffled.

Our Fair City, a story about a sentient whirlwind in a corrupt US metropolis is rather fun.

All you zombies is a classic, They isn’t a story so much as a random idea sketched thinly.

Ah this book has -All You Zombies- in it, the ultimate time travel story. Nice.

Elephants… and traveling salesmen

The final story seems hellbent on tossing in as many penosi euphemisms as can be stuffed in…

The titular story is not Heinlein’s best work.
It’s an interesting grab-bag of ideas with a mystery plot which resolves rather unsatisfactorily.

Not bad though.

The titular tale is an interesting story, but weirdly paced and padded in places.

Awkward dinners and introspection and yet, the simple normality of this book is sublime.

The third story is a comedy mash up of Candyman and Freddy Krueger, and a flasher. Brilliant.

But I do wonder how this will all tie together.

The irony of this book is that the middle tale is actually a great “bad” folk horror story.

Hopefully the final part pulls it all together.
Still having a giggle with it.

It's a fun story this, but making it effectively a three volume novel makes the audio-book version a slight chore.

That's not a quibble with the writing, the joke works, but it becomes a belaboured experience after a while, and the fact this is effectively 3 stories in one is getting on.

Very silly, funny but also it’s trying hard to do something a little smarter underneath.

I read somewhere recently that an Ishiguro plot is usually “an old man telling you slowly that everything is fine, while you realise more and more it is not.”

Accurate.