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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.

I’m quite enjoying this, now I’ve settled into the groove and tempo of the narration. The old man’s wandering mind as he recounts what occurred is fascinating as is the offhand depiction of Japanese post war culture and mentality.

I have an inkling where this is going, but not sure yet.

A gentle story so far. An old Japanese man’s recounting of events and moments, slow, distracted but richly observed.

This is fun, but there’s an arduousness to the plot that while indicative of the sort of bad writing he’s parodying doesn’t feel conducive to cracking on with it. Something. I also felt with the parts of Terrortome I read.

This is a slog, but it’s a quickly readable slog.
As much as I think Passarella was on a hiding to
nothing with this job, he could have injected something into it, other than redundant descriptions and filler.

It’s hard to explain how basic and functional this book is.
I’ve read many novelisations of films in my time, and this is the most “describe the set and the actor’s movements without adding any form of poetic, literary or artistic flair whatsoever”

Yikes. The film wasn’t great but this is somehow worse.

Very fun, very silly