The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester is a scifi classic, and most of those don’t work for me. This one was better than average, but I still felt like I was in a weird dream. I have a low tolerance for people behaving horribly and/or stupidly at the moment, which is certainly part of it. I enjoyed the exploration of what the power of personal teleportation at a whim would do to society, and I laughed at the outrageously absurd parts of the novel, but the middle part felt like a drag, not due to lack of action, but due to the characters being weird/horrible/stupid or alternating between those three in rapid succession.
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The Stars My Destination
| author: | Alfred Bester (1955) |
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| date added: | 2018-09-12 |
| date read: | 2019-05-05 |
| pages: | 258 |
| author: | gender:male, origin:us |
| genre: | scifi |
| lists: | marcs-must-reads |
| rating: | ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ |
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Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.
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