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An interesting contrast to the misogynistic nonsense that was Vox

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

November 8, 2021 by Bothari43 1 Comment

Usually I prefer a heaping helping of escapism in my media (as Murderbot would say), but this Bloggess-recommended book was CHEWY, and I think I will be pondering it for quite some time. I’m not sure how far to go into the synopsis, because it’s going to get spoilery real fast, but here goes: Evelyn is a brilliant scientist who specializes in clones, mapping the brain to make a clone more or less like their progenitor. Her husband is a less-brilliant scientist, jealous of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cheating husbands, cloning, Sarah Gailey, science ethics, unlikeable protagonists

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cheating husbands, cloning, Sarah Gailey, science ethics, unlikeable protagonists ·
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Classic book, award-winning movie…BAH.

Children of Men by P.D. James

August 27, 2021 by Bothari43 3 Comments

I remember very little about the movie except a vague impression of not liking it, so I wasn’t real excited when this came up on my library book club list. I was justified in my crankiness; this book was uuuuunpleasant. The story could have been interesting, and the thought-experiment side of things was: how the world’s population would react if there were no more children, how the end of the world can come in with a whimper instead of an apocalyptic bang, how society would […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: books made into movies, Dystopian, P.D. James, unlikeable protagonists

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: books made into movies, Dystopian, P.D. James, unlikeable protagonists ·
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meddling with merfolk

Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet

June 28, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

“One thing. I’ve got experience with explosives. Another thing. I’ve got explosives.” I do not know why this book has such a low rating on GR – 2.8 as of the time of this posting – as it’s a fluffy little environmental thriller, but I suppose you can’t make everyone happy! Not that there is too much in Mermaids in Paradise to be happy with, what with the incredibly privileged narrator and her cavalcade of side characters who oscillate wildly between do-gooders and backstabbers. Mermaids in Paradise – […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: environmental protection, honeymoom, Lydia Millet, magical realism, priveledge, tropical vacation, unlikeable protagonists, wealth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: environmental protection, honeymoom, Lydia Millet, magical realism, priveledge, tropical vacation, unlikeable protagonists, wealth ·
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Don’t you hate it when you’ve hit the ripe old age of 29 and have experienced all the world has to offer, so you rip a hole in reality so you can cavort with pain demons just for a change of pace?

Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

February 19, 2021 by Bothari43 2 Comments

(Trigger warnings for various unsavoriness.) I like my horror with a heaping helping of cheese (Slither, Night of the Comet, Cabin in the Woods), so I have never read any Clive Barker, and I’ve never seen Hellraiser. So when my sci-fi library book club picked Hellbound Heart, the book the movie Hellraiser is based on, I was not sure what to expect. I mean, I was expecting gross stuff and a guy with pins in his face, but I was not expecting such unlikeable characters. […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Cenobites, Clive Barker, Hellraiser, novella, unlikeable protagonists

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Cenobites, Clive Barker, Hellraiser, novella, unlikeable protagonists ·
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