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Satellite
by Nick Lake
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Actually I'm gonna need more than one sentence for this one. Most of the negative reviews of this book cite the abbreviated text-speak, and I was eager to defend this writing choice as the organic evolution of written English language. The REAL problem with this book is I couldn't suspend my disbelief for even a minute. The narration never sounds like the perspective of a 15-year-old who has spent his entire life on a sterile space station; it sounds like a grown man, raised on Earth, using Earth frames of reference to tell us about a hero boy who is smarter than all the adults and never does anything wrong. This failure of imagination can be entirely captured in this quote from page 91: "my eyes [...] feel like they have sand in them, not that i know what sand feels like"
Actually I'm gonna need more than one sentence for this one. Most of the negative reviews of this book cite the abbreviated text-speak, and I was eager to defend this writing choice as the organic evolution of written English language. The REAL problem with this book is I couldn't suspend my disbelief for even a minute. The narration never sounds like the perspective of a 15-year-old who has spent his entire life on a sterile space station; it sounds like a grown man, raised on Earth, using Earth frames of reference to tell us about a hero boy who is smarter than all the adults and never does anything wrong. This failure of imagination can be entirely captured in this quote from page 91: "my eyes [...] feel like they have sand in them, not that i know what sand feels like"