Reading "The Dark Side of the Sun" (shortened to "DSS") reminded me of why I sworn off sci-fi in the first place. I have no patience following plotlines that revolve around different species of life form, some whose intelligence is off the charts and some who are rated sub-par.
Add a bumbling hero whose destiny was determined by p-maths (read: probability maths) but actually bucked the trend by not dying on the anointed day as calculated by his dear father, and you have a convoluted mess that's terribly hard to follow (or maybe I just refused to follow because as G likes to point out, after all I am the one who said I liked TH's Snow White & the 7 Dwarves, whose convoluteness is off the charts!), even when the book is actually not thick to begin with.
Still, it was a Terry Pratchett book, so for the parts that I managed to understand, I did find myself chuckling at Isaac, Dom (the hero)'s super-intelligent robot's smart mouth.
I checked out the book thinking that it was one of the DiscWorld series, but finished it just because it was there. For that, it comes as no surprise that my rating for this book is only 2.5 out of 5 stars.
3 comments:
Haven't read this one...but hope you're not entirely turned off Terry Pratchett yet. As tempting as it is to start off from his earlier works, or the beginning of Discworld, I find his more recent books a whole lot more funnier. Maybe you should give those a go?
By the way LS, you seem to be missing the pictures of your recent books. Hmmhmmhmmm....
Hehe. Caught again. I think I was in too much of a rush and didn't try to locate the image :P
On yr earlier remark, I wanted to start from the beginning (i.e. Discworld) cos I kept reading raves that series. And it seemed somehow wrong to read an author's latest works when he was so raved about for his earlier tomes as well.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna give up on TP so easily. I will stay on track with Discworld!
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