Fiction – Page 12 – Failures in Polymathy

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers

If you try to make a book of characters alone, surely something will be missing. Notably, story.

Octavia Butler was a master of showing us the worst of all possible outcomes, but not letting us lose our faith on the way.

Oryx and Crake lingers around in your head like a bad house guest. That’s actually a pretty nice thing to say about it.

Sometimes things are not as you expect them to be. Pleasantly so.

I keep reading Stephen King and expecting bigger and better things. You would think I would learn my lesson by now?

A decent vision polluted by very poor execution.

Some books are just so good you want to start reading them a new right as you finish.

Sometimes persistence pays off in the form of a series you didn’t really like starting to be enjoyable finally.

Sometimes giving an author a second chance really pays off.

If nothing else, this book wins all the internet points for putting in a “Leroy Jenkins” reference.