The 5 Worst Books I've Read This Year

it's just kind of two depressed priests sitting around talking about redemption in a way that's uninteresting in the exact way that every priests in space story is uninteresting with the one exception of case of conscience JB the only one to ever do it

I also read Feast Unknown by him which also was bad and annoying and a different way

The Iron Dream which is a piece of satire of genre fiction and of fascism that I have praised to the High Heavens in fact I praised it even in the patreon review for this as being untouchably good

I have little gripes with it of the plot is kind of clunky there's a ton of suspension of disbelief the exposition is overwhelming and ubiquitous and also hinges on this plot device that is way too convenient to Andy we's I will go so far as to say lazy writing style the thing that is killer to me is the sense of humor in the book this squee epic redditor sense of humor so this just happened Anchor Man Deadpool and it is an overpowering factor in Andy wear's writing in its guts and its inner mechanics under the hood it's still an okay science fiction story I just think there's so much more that's out there that's so much better

they're a varyan quality the first two I actually think are good mother and daughter those I think are worth reading and they set my expectations up really high then we get into Father which is a Nolla that takes up a full third of the book that I thought was completely like disrespectfully lazily written

the book itself is only interesting for its backstory and the fact that it was one of the first big bestselling New Age books also because it reminds me of other New Age books that I've read I haven't read a ton of them just here and there in that I think a good way to describe them is genre fiction without plot so it's sort of funny sort of amusing But ultimately just a really bad book

I will preface by saying about a quarter to a third of the stories are serviceable there's one story Outward Bound that I think is good but the ones that are bad are bad in ways that may have taken spinrad just entirely off the table for me

the book itself also just kind of circles the drain it loses all of its forward momentum and it devolves into this weird like Adventure mystery about South America to do with lovecraftian Gods by that point I was just completely uninterested