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Infernal Devices (Infernal Devices, #1)
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The book was fine.
The more I think about "Infernal Devices" and its protagonist the more I can come up with things to complain about, but in the end I still enjoyed the book. It reminded me a of other books like "The Crying of Lot 49" or "The hitchikers guide to the galaxy" in that the main character is supposed to be an affable every-man who keeps getting bounced from one madcap set piece to the other and is never not in way over his head. Or even really knowing what is happening. Now just because I compare it to those books you should not put it on their level. Its not that good. But its fine.
Our hero, George Dower, is basically the same at the end of the book as when he started. He doesn't go through anything like a hero's journey. He doesn't change or seem to learn anything or progress as a character.
The book's brevity is simultaneously its best and worst feature. We don't get a lot of time to explore the fun locales and insane circumstances the author has created. There are a lot of fanciful and fun ideas that only ever get half explored. I would like to have seen more of the Anti-Royal society explored, as I would have wished the same for wetwick/dampford and their residents, women's league for suppressing carnal vice (not their actual name, I have already forgotten it), or Mollie Maud/Mrs. Trabble. All of this seems to be sacrificed to keep up the manic pace and leave us as confused and in the dark as Dowser. Maybe not everything needs to be explained (or perhaps KW Jeter isn't capable enough to explain). But still, the book was fine.
The more I think about it the more I can find to pick at it. It reminds me of the book that Fry writes in Futurama to capture the Big Brain, riddled with plot holes and spelling errors. Truthfully I just wanted to bring that up because the revealed big bad just pulls a "NOW I AM LEAVING FOR ABSOLUTELY NO RAISIN" and jumps through a window.
The book was not without wit. It amused. I think it may have even been a good satire, I'm just not sure what the source of satire was.
Yeah. Its bad. But I still enjoyed it. That may say more about my tastes than anything.
It was fine.
The more I think about "Infernal Devices" and its protagonist the more I can come up with things to complain about, but in the end I still enjoyed the book. It reminded me a of other books like "The Crying of Lot 49" or "The hitchikers guide to the galaxy" in that the main character is supposed to be an affable every-man who keeps getting bounced from one madcap set piece to the other and is never not in way over his head. Or even really knowing what is happening. Now just because I compare it to those books you should not put it on their level. Its not that good. But its fine.
Our hero, George Dower, is basically the same at the end of the book as when he started. He doesn't go through anything like a hero's journey. He doesn't change or seem to learn anything or progress as a character.
The book's brevity is simultaneously its best and worst feature. We don't get a lot of time to explore the fun locales and insane circumstances the author has created. There are a lot of fanciful and fun ideas that only ever get half explored. I would like to have seen more of the Anti-Royal society explored, as I would have wished the same for wetwick/dampford and their residents, women's league for suppressing carnal vice (not their actual name, I have already forgotten it), or Mollie Maud/Mrs. Trabble. All of this seems to be sacrificed to keep up the manic pace and leave us as confused and in the dark as Dowser. Maybe not everything needs to be explained (or perhaps KW Jeter isn't capable enough to explain). But still, the book was fine.
The more I think about it the more I can find to pick at it. It reminds me of the book that Fry writes in Futurama to capture the Big Brain, riddled with plot holes and spelling errors. Truthfully I just wanted to bring that up because the revealed big bad just pulls a "NOW I AM LEAVING FOR ABSOLUTELY NO RAISIN" and jumps through a window.
The book was not without wit. It amused. I think it may have even been a good satire, I'm just not sure what the source of satire was.
Yeah. Its bad. But I still enjoyed it. That may say more about my tastes than anything.
It was fine.
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Reading Progress
November 21, 2017
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Started Reading
November 22, 2017
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Finished Reading
November 23, 2017
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