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PHM is excellent. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is also a good read. Fast paced and interesting ideas.
by siquick 5y ago
PHM is excellent.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is also a good read. Fast paced and interesting ideas.
- ptsneves 5y agoLiked a lot. The physics of the device is laughable but the possibilities explored are really cool. Sometimes when I want some thoughts to linger on while falling asleep, I reconstruct one of the places and imagine what would it be like to stay in that world. Blake Crouch has really good imagination from my opinion and his books stay in your mind quite long. If you do not mind the week scientific background they are good rides.I liked very much the the wayward pines trilogy.
- feoren 5y agoDark Matter (by Blake Crouch, not "A Dark Matter" by Peter Straub that GP mentioned) was really terrible. Not only is the "physics" complete nonsense, the plot doesn't make any sense even if you accept his version of how physics works. Even if you suspend your disbelief and accept how the device works, the last 30 or so pages just completely ignore that and the final goal makes no sense at all. The scientists have cringey dialogue that sounds like it's straight out of a campy Hollywood action flick. The whole thing is driven by the cliche that you can either be successful and completely lonely, or have a family and be boring and unsuccessful. It's really quite bad.
- siquick 5y agoSorry you didn’t enjoy it . It sounds like you maybe wanted the book to be something it was never going to be.
- hombre_fatal 5y agoIt seems unnecessary to lay into some entertainment that someone just recommended. We are all surely aware of the fact that everything won’t appeal to everyone without someone weighing in every time they see a recommendation they didn’t enjoy. Dark Matter is a great lightweight hammock sci-fi book.