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Doomsday Book
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I am very concerned. I read “The Doomsday Book� time travel saga, eagerly anticipating it based on the many ŷ reviews that highly praise this story. Many reviewers whom I trust rave about this book. I just didn’t see it at all, not a bit. Not only was it supremely boring, but annoying. The first 120 pages can be summarized: “something is wrong�. During the next 180 pages, the rest of the characters realize there is “something wrong�. Yawn! I felt like slapping virtually every character in the book at one point or three to stop whinging and get on with a rescue. I didn’t care for any except the village priest and, just barely, the main character, Kivrin. Willis made Britain and the British so depressing, not the Britain I have visited. This is a multiple award winner, including the Nebula Award and I can’t imagine why. There is nothing “amazing� in this story. The science is minimal and never explained. The technology of 2054 was not impressive at all. I at least expected some interesting adventure in medieval times but nada. So I come back to questioning, what am I missing here?
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Reading Progress
November 28, 2010
– Shelved
May 3, 2011
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Started Reading
May 3, 2011
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Finished Reading
May 21, 2011
– Shelved as:
scifi
January 20, 2012
– Shelved as:
xcharity-2011
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May 05, 2012 01:44AM
It's 2054 not 2024. One of the points you're missing is that the book is not about technological advances. It's about humanity.
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Isis wrote: "It's 2054 not 2024. One of the points you're missing is that the book is not about technological advances. It's about humanity."Thanks for the correction on dates. I expect an award winner to be amazing and just didn't get that here.
I loved the book - but I also enjoyed your review. You're not wrong: an award winner should knock it out of the park, and if it doesn't what might have been "okay" is . Expectations are bound to affect your rating.
Tracey wrote: "I loved the book - but I also enjoyed your review. You're not wrong: an award winner should knock it out of the park, and if it doesn't what might have been "okay" is . Expectations are bound to af..."Thanks Tracey, glad you enjoyed the book. I agree with you about expectations affecting the rating.
See, this is why I no longer pay any attention to ratings/reviews before finishing a book to completion. Expectations can and often do kill a book for me. One such example is that book "Wool" everyone is reading these days. I let myself get excited and was extremely disappointed. Sorry you didn't like this book. It's one of my favourites! Then again, I bought it years ago and knew nothing of it :)
I didn't really get this book's message...
Joanna wrote: "I didn't really get this book's message..."Neither did I.
Once you said "nebula award winner" it all became clear
Maybe you need to be smoking something to really understand it?
