Hybrids (Tor Science Fiction)
by Robert J. Sawyer
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Author: Robert J. SawyerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN: 076534906X
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
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Book Review: 3rd Book: Unreadable
Summary: 1 Stars
I enjoyed Hominids.
I enjoyed Humans.
Both books made for some very intriguing and enjoyable reading. Not all ideas expressed in either Hominids or Humans are totally grounded, but by the nature of how such ideas are delivered, they can easily be accepted as the limited thinking of the character(s) presenting them.
I found Hybrids to be unreadable.
After fighting my way through the first 100 pages, I exhausted my stamina for bad fiction and had to finally put the book down.
The author has taken a distinct turn in this book, deciding to leave behind the core sci-fi work and instead embarking full bore into a self-centered, narrow-minded, middle aged woman's angst with her perceived world.
This tale of angst fuses together into a "hate the world" fantasy which not only takes over the book, but also enjoys a circus of events as the book's universe diligently binds such angst as "you go girl" fact.
There were some "new ideas" introduced as the sci-fi story foundations for this installment, but they all were REALLY BAD and left my mind cringing similar to watching Keanu performing Shakespeare or the character Jar Jar performing anything.
I'll give you one as an example of the quality of these new premises: if you castrate a man he will be initially somewhat agitated, however, he will quickly become pacified and unable to care as his new state (free of high levels of male hormones) will create in him a resonating feeling of peace and tranquility... and understanding.
Much like my experience with the once-upon-a-time-sporadically-amazing series Cerebus (a work of fiction intended to span decades in its telling, the author became uninterested in the assignment and instead resorted to nixing the existing story/universe in lieu of abstract and frequently unreadable literary experiments), the author seems bent on using this third book as an off-road vehicle to buck the tale of the previous books and do something different.
Maybe he wanted to use this soapbox to preach something, maybe he just wanted to muck around with some words while making a buck off the series, maybe he wanted to pull a "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" and kill off the book so that he wouldn't be coerced into having to spend his writing career mired in the series.
Whatever the reasons behind its creation, the book was definitely unreadable.
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