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dustydigger
Posted 2015-02-07 12:52 PM (#9550 - in reply to #9549)
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Location: UK		Jim,you are so right about satire. There has to be something beyond it,either character or plot to make it viable,and . Player Piano seemed to have some what was meant to be humour,but it seemed heavy handed to me. As for Slaughterhouse 5,I may have gone into it with wrong impressions. Someone had said it was a time travel novel and so it was not at all what I was expecting. I felt as if I were being manoeuvred into sympathy for the characters one minute,then there was off the wall sections about the space zoo and those aliens,and I found the mix not very smooth or enjoyable. And the characters were not very well delineated either To me it was really just literary fiction using SF motifs for other purposes. I felt disconnected from it,and as I said,felt a bit manipulated. I could feel no connection at all with Player Piano,even though we are much nearer the state of machines taking over today than was the case back then. I never take much to such books (thinking of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale,as just one example),its just me being a philistine as usual! In my old age and want some nice straightforward exciting stuff,my days with litearry fiction are long gone!

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