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beccaelizabeth) wrote2023-05-01 03:41 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2023-05-01 03:41 pm
Torchwood: The Men Who Sold The World
So I sat down to read this and then got the this is familiar feeling and searched up my previous review
https://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/2982519.html
and yet I finished reading it anyway.
... bit of a waste of time I reckon.
It is a story that cares very much about showing us vehicles crashing and weapons in detail and gruesome child deaths, but not very much about... I don't know, painting a survivable world at the end of the day? It is an unrelieved pit of human misery.
Which is boring and pointless.
Also, usually I would complain because in 400 on my ereader pages there were... only three named women if you count a nickname? I think one survived the story. And you got more sentences about one man's silly name than you ever got sentences from all but one woman. Thing is though, adding anyone else would have just added to the body count, so they're better off out of it.
It did not strike me as a book featuring people, it was just a whole lot of murders strung together, with a dash of paradox.
Maybe this time I will remember having read it and not read it again.
https://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/2982519.html
and yet I finished reading it anyway.
... bit of a waste of time I reckon.
It is a story that cares very much about showing us vehicles crashing and weapons in detail and gruesome child deaths, but not very much about... I don't know, painting a survivable world at the end of the day? It is an unrelieved pit of human misery.
Which is boring and pointless.
Also, usually I would complain because in 400 on my ereader pages there were... only three named women if you count a nickname? I think one survived the story. And you got more sentences about one man's silly name than you ever got sentences from all but one woman. Thing is though, adding anyone else would have just added to the body count, so they're better off out of it.
It did not strike me as a book featuring people, it was just a whole lot of murders strung together, with a dash of paradox.
Maybe this time I will remember having read it and not read it again.