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Summary: simplistic, typical 60sh
Review: Simplistic, cartoonish, trivial, liberal novel that should be 1000 words story. All based on one assumption (teleportation) and as old as.... Degenerative book!
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Summary: INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
Review: The best scince fiction book ever written!!!!!!! It may have been a little poorly written at times, but the ideas and plot of the book are great!!!! An intense climax at the end of the book too!!!!!
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Summary: Much Ado About Nothing
Review: "The Demolished Man" and some of Bester's short fiction were brilliant. This one is not. A confusing hodgepodge of ideas that never ring true, "The Stars My Destination" illustrates what happens when a talented author becomes overly self-indulgent and neglects the requirement of a soundly plotted, clearly written story.
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Summary: the ideas are great; the execution is lacking
Review: Okay, I won't deny that Bester was absolutely overflowing with incredible ideas (second, perhaps, only to Philip K. Dick), but the implementation here is not as good as it should be. The book has kind of a choppy feel to it, as if Bester was incapable of implementing his ideas while retaining a smooth sense of narrative. This is occasionally jaw-dropping, but the presentation hurts it a bit, I think. I would recommend you pick up Virtual Realities instead--Bester is at his best (haha) when his genius is presented in small-but-powerful explosions than when he tries to stretch it over an entire novel.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN
Review: This is one of those books I will never forget. I must have read it 30 times over the course of my life. I bought it when I was 13, I am now 42, and I still have that worn copy. It is a masterpiece of pulp fiction. It is also a masterpiece of experimental prose and speculative fiction. It is one of the reasons I became a professional writer. The main character, Gully Foyle, is one of the most memorable and powerful fictional creations in the history of literature. The plot of this novel is so fast paced it makes MTV videos look slow, and it was written in the 1950s! It is overblown and cartoonish in places, but it is still ahead of our time and remains one of the classics. You MUST read this book!
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Summary: One of the few true genre classics.
Review: Bester's writing style (almost super-pulpy) combines striking images with vivid characters and scene after memorable scene. I've re-read both Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man over and over again... while a few details have gotten dated, they're still amazingly good reads. Possibly my personal favorite sci-fi author, certainly one of the greats...
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Summary: Outrageous adventure, technology, and undaunting survival.
Review: Through this remarkable book by Alfred Bester, you realize how mankind is taken over by madness and injustice toward each other. Gully Foley, the protagonist/antagonist of this story, has mastered the ability to "jaunte" or teleport. He is driven by a grudge and has a secret that could change history. Through the book Gulley Foley meets his wife and four other women. Gully falls in love, but not necessarily with his wife, but little does he know , the one he falls madly in love with in no more than a blood lusting , psychotic nut, like himself. I recommend this book to Science Fiction readers because it is considered by myself and many others to be one of the greatest single Science Fiction novels ever to exist. It is full of outrageous adventure, twisted technology and exhibits undaunting survival.
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Summary: 5 stars ain't "quant. suff." !!!!
Review: I first read this 35 years ago, when I was 13, and still have the copy bought at a booksale in a small town in NZ, for about 15 cents. I was the only kid in the school that read SF, and had to go about 30 miles to find another fan - that was a woman in her 50's who ran a second-hand bookshop, who introduced me to much of the Golden Age. I have always been fascinated by the pace, energy and atmosphere of the story. To be Scientific, I have to say that 5 stars is definitely not "quant. suff."!!!! How anyone can give it less is beyond me. One of the Bester-est ever.
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Summary: Starting Out at the Top
Review: This was my first science fiction book, and I LOVED it. Now I'm almost afraid to read any other science fiction! Surely most other books in this genre will be a step down.
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Summary: Insistent Book
Review: One of the reviews here called this cyber punk. Bang on the money!The book is preachy, obnoxious, crude, rude, and arrogant and blares out a morality play based on the power and self-righteousness of the free-will and confidence in self and the ability to achieve anything given enough motivation. Tyger Tyger indeed. I loved the book when I first read it when I was in my teens and I havent changed my opinion now in my 30s. It is about a man who changes drastically seeking to feed a rage that eats at him and drives him to madness. I find the same energy of anger and demand to be respected reflected in the modern cypber-punk novels of the 80s and the early 90s. Read the Hackers Manual. Sounds like a preamble to the book. The demand we all take responsiblity for our actions is a refrain across the centuries and this book does it well in the space opera genre, and boot out some funky ideas too.
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