Alyse

Jo Firestone for poet laureate

I have never read anything remotely like this book

Alternates between clever and silly. Lacks the awe and wonder I'm drawn to in sci-fi, and the world building stalls out pretty early on. But it mostly kept my attention.

This was better than I thought it would be based on the silly title, but the cutesy tone was not for me.

I also don't understand the moralizing. If slasher movies were based on real life events, they would be gross movies. But slasher movies are very fictional. This book is not horror, but it certainly is meant to appeal to fans of horror. It's weird to me that a story would try to appeal to a fan group then preach to them about the wrongness of what they like while also fundamentally misrepresenting what they like.

Horror certainly has its issues, especially when it comes to the treatment of women. But one of those issues is not that Pamela Voorhees' pride and joy, her unstoppable killing machine of a son, who visits New York and outer space, and fights a telekinetic Carrie-knock off, is based on a real person.

This was unpleasant

Good book about a terrible thing. Glad I'm not alone

Good fun

This is silly. And why is there a concrete slab on the second floor of a residential building?!?!

I'm not entirely sure what I just read. But large parts of it revolved around solving equations and scientists bickering with each other about the merits of research vs applied sciences. And that's everything I could ever hope for in a book.

Well written, but very slow. I also personally found the constantly switching character perspectives distracting and gimmicky

Evolution as plot device

The first book used science and exploration to solve a horror mystery. This one uses HR management to get some paperwork straightened out.

I'm a sucker for a story where the characters don't have names and are only identified by their scientific field of expertise

I usually love a story about a skeptical, stoic medical professional woman who sets out to disprove paranormal phenomenon, but this was boring as all get-out

Jon Ronson doing what he does best–interacting with crazy people and then writing charming, quirky essays about the encounter

The continuing adventures of Jon Ronson and Alex Jones, professional crazy person

I don't know why I read this. It is very silly

It's insane how good this

People are terrible

The afterward describes the mathematical proofs and Kurt Vonnegut quotes that inspired the stories. I think this book is my soul mate

One of those sci-fi books that thinks it's deep and philosophical, but in reality Futurama (and Farscape) have already done it, and done it better

Also absurdly predictable and bland. Just once, I'd like a story about someone who stumbles into an alternate universe and discovers that their boring suburban life is not the best of all possible worlds.

This book (much like Scandinavia) is a bit monotonous and dull at times. But also pleasant and inoffensive. (Except for Sweden. Sweden is terrifying.)

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Less obnoxious than most books of similar persuasions, but still an exercise in spotting the logical fallacies

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