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Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Apr. 2nd, 2022 01:10 pmPerhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
4/5. Final volume in this series about, um. *checks notes*. *checks other notes*. *Checks horoscope*. *Does today's Semantle*. *Opens this review*. *Closes this review*. *Has feelings about this book*. *Fails to accurately identify many of those feelings*.
Look, either you know this series is what it is or you haven't tried it yet, and if you haven't tried it yet God knows I'm not going to be able to adequately describe it.
This took me many months to read. Did I enjoy the experience? Yes, for the most part. Did I snap ugh this entire argument is such bullshit at least once? Oh yeah. Did I think several times that a particular scene was sublimely perfectly uniquely itself, and no one else in the entire field is doing things in the same zip code as that because Palmer invented a few zip codes of her own? Yeah. Did, at other points, I wonder if Palmer is okay because genuinely, truly, from the bottom of my heart, what the fuck was that? …Yeah.
Is it brilliant and layered and simultaneously shamelessly indulgent and deeply thoughtful and also, fundamentally, unhinged? Yep. Do I recommend it? Boy, IDK man, I feel like I'd have to have an intimate friendship with someone for like twenty years before I would begin to know whether they would love or loathe this.
Am I going to say anything of actual substance about this book? No, because my options are either to *gestures up* or write 10,000 words about it, and I don't have time for 10,000 words, so. This is what you get.
Amiright?
4/5. Final volume in this series about, um. *checks notes*. *checks other notes*. *Checks horoscope*. *Does today's Semantle*. *Opens this review*. *Closes this review*. *Has feelings about this book*. *Fails to accurately identify many of those feelings*.
Look, either you know this series is what it is or you haven't tried it yet, and if you haven't tried it yet God knows I'm not going to be able to adequately describe it.
This took me many months to read. Did I enjoy the experience? Yes, for the most part. Did I snap ugh this entire argument is such bullshit at least once? Oh yeah. Did I think several times that a particular scene was sublimely perfectly uniquely itself, and no one else in the entire field is doing things in the same zip code as that because Palmer invented a few zip codes of her own? Yeah. Did, at other points, I wonder if Palmer is okay because genuinely, truly, from the bottom of my heart, what the fuck was that? …Yeah.
Is it brilliant and layered and simultaneously shamelessly indulgent and deeply thoughtful and also, fundamentally, unhinged? Yep. Do I recommend it? Boy, IDK man, I feel like I'd have to have an intimate friendship with someone for like twenty years before I would begin to know whether they would love or loathe this.
Am I going to say anything of actual substance about this book? No, because my options are either to *gestures up* or write 10,000 words about it, and I don't have time for 10,000 words, so. This is what you get.
Amiright?