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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cowboys & Aliensdi Joan D. Vinge
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |   ) Preston.Kringle | Nov 23, 2018 | While I the occasional shadows of important themes pop up, not a single one is ever explored or expanded on. The book is action-packed, but not much else. All-in-all, there wasn't much to recommend it. At least the movie had some cool actors in it; all this had was an overly breathy, over-acted voice. (I had an audio edition.) Meh ( ) SadieSForsythe | Feb 24, 2016 | As a novelization, I think this is the better of the two. It did read more like a novel than a novelization, and gave a lot of background and context that I think would have been impossible in the movie. (Note: I have not seen the movie, nor do I plan to.) If one is a fan of the movie, I think this would be an excellent read that would increase the appreciation. However, as a novel in and of itself, it's a bit heavy-handed, especially in terms of plot. Plus, I still cannot see how it makes sense for aliens to come all the way here for basic resources, when they can- with their advanced tech- just MAKE whatever they need. Most Earth lifeforms have a innate policy of doing as little as possible to get the results they want; I can see why this would be selected for; and I do not see why aliens would follow a wildly different, more complex, and far more fragile evolutionary path. But hey- it's most a plot in which Humans Triumph and Virtue Is Rewarded, not actual science fiction; more a morality play with sf garnishes. Comment (  ) cissa | Feb 15, 2014 | Here's the thing: No good explanation is given for Jake's shackle/bracelet. The story as novelized is humorless and pretty boring. I assume Vinge was going for a "standard Western novel" feel, but instead created poor genre fiction. The fights are particularly badly rendered in wordy, non-urgent prose. In dialogue, what may be intended as laconic is instead flat. Again, she was probably stuck with the movie script's dialogue and action, which are not great even when read in a loud and pressured delivery by the audiobook's narrator. IMDB has identified a number of anachronisms in the film that also appear in the book. These include the use of cardboard matchboxes and the name of the town now called Puerto Vallarta. To this I add that Vinge's use of the word "actinic," which, while accurately descriptive, seems like a jump from a character-centered limited-omniscient narration to an authorial one. "Actinic" was in use at the time (1844, says the OED), but I doubt it would be in Jake's or most other characters' vocabulary or conceptual/educational experience. This criticism highlights a writing problem that belongs to Vinge: Point of view shifts inconsistently between characters, sometimes confusingly. This detracts from whatever capacity the reader has to remain at the level of the story rather than needing to back up to figure out when and where the perspective shifted. This story needs all the breaks it can get, so it is not served by jumps in narrative stance. ( ) OshoOsho | Mar 30, 2013 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
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