Flatland was published in 1884 and the prejudices of the time shine through. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Classic
Book review: Woman on the Edge of Time
Connie gets trapped in a mental institution but has started to escape to the future with Luciente – however it’s important that Connie fights her real world battles so Luciente’s future can exist at all. Continue reading
Book review: The Female Man
Ummm So, I don’t think Joanna Russ’ book a normal novel. I don’t know what it is. Maybe a stream of consciousness feminist rant that takes place across multiple parallel universes? There are four women, who cross over into each other’s earths, all which have had a different history. Janet’s Earth has no men, they … Continue reading
Book review: Stranger in a Strange Land
I didn’t grok this book at all. That folks, is a hilarious joke about the most annoying literary device I’ve come across in all the books from the list. Grok, you see, is a Martian word for…something. Like knowing or understanding or something so deep we can’t possibly translate it with our pathetic language. AND … Continue reading
Book review: Conan the Barbarian
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. The grandfather of fantasy, Conan the Barbarian, sets the stage for all the ridiculous sexism that shows up in later fantasy novels. I wish I could say it was kind of a guilty pleasure like Starship Troopers but it’s not. It’s just…upsetting. There are a lot of stories, so … Continue reading
Book review: Starship Troopers
You know when you like something and you know you shouldn’t? This was kind of like that (a lot like the film actually). Surprisingly, it’s quite similar to the film – some people have been conflated they don’t have power-assisted suits in the film – but otherwise, it kind of follows the same trajectory. The … Continue reading
Book review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Right. So this is another bloody weird book. It follows some of the same plot as Bladerunner but it is significantly different in many ways. The world is a bit fucked, most of humanity has left for Mars while Earth slowly succumbs to ‘the dust’. The basic plot of having to track down and retire … Continue reading
Book review: The Last Unicorn
Okay, so maybe there’s some inverse law where a book is really good, the film has to be crap and if the film is good, the book is crap. This is how I feel about The Last Unicorn and The Princess Bride. Seriously, does anyone remember how weird the animation of The Last Unicorn was? … Continue reading
Book review: The Sword in the Stone
This was supposed to be about The Once and Future King but I can’t get into the next book. It feels entirely nonsensical but also just really dull. The Sword in the Stone was entertaining enough, though it did entirely have that feeling that the author didn’t even remotely entertain the idea that women or … Continue reading
Book review: 20,000 leagues under the sea
That was such a hard slog. We can probably cut ol’ Jules Verne some slack given he helped start the genre but holy crap that was quite tedious. So, first off, I don’t think there is one single woman in the book (there are crowds of people on a boat but there’s no single defined … Continue reading
