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Summary: Disappointed
Review: After reading all these raving reviews, I expected much more. It started out good but I lost interest quickly. I think it will hold your attention if you're about 12 years old. For really good science fiction, try reading Phillip Dick.
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Summary: Immersion
Review: This is one of those books that you quickly fall into and come out with a intellectual chill. It is easy to see why some call it the best science fiction ever written.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: what a great book , it grabs yuo in the begining and just wont let go. this book is truely a classic work of sifi fiction
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Summary: Ageless, timeless, beautiful yet ugly, sad yet joyous!
Review: What a shame this immortal story of Gully Foyle, the man shipwrecked and forever marked by the Maori tattoo on his face was never made into a movie! His rise from simpleton to cosmic Donald Trump (and then some!) is a classic of modern fiction, never mind "science" fiction! There is more richness of detail here than in many current "hard" sci-fi books. The whole aspect of "jaunting" has never been duplicated by anyone since. The characters are alive, sympathetic, ugly, real, weak, strong and demented. The story is rich with classic motifs and underpinnings. This is a Story (with a capital S) that deserves continued praise and a movie adaptation (and don't anyone say Leonardo DiCaprio)!
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Summary: One of the best science fiction novels ever written!
Review: _The Stars My Destination_ is one of the best novels I have ever read. It's so good that the first time I read it, I was overwhelmed by the number of amazing ideas and action-packed scenes filled in the book. Gully Foyle is one of the most wonderfully ruthless and tortured protagonists ever to be written. And the novel has no limits to its sense of depth and imagination; jaunting across Earth, Foyle's quest for revenge against Vorga, the number of interesting and unique characters Bester created, as well as his wonderful experiments in elaborate prose manipulation...this book is the very definition of compelling. About the only flaw I can say that the novel has is that some of the references are a bit dated from the 50's. But it's still so fresh and innovative that it makes a lot of today's SF novels seem dated. And it has influenced thousands of other writers, myself included. Along with this book, there's Bester's _The Demolished Man_. Another great book that shouldn't be missed.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: This is one of my favorite Sci-Fi classics. Also try "Demolished Man"
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Summary: hmmmm
Review: To, A reader from New York, USA , July 14, 1999 Suspense, Futuristic, but how does Revenge Drive a man? I am a girl. I liked this book. Perhaps your perspective on who would like this book is flawed. Read A Clockwork Orange too.
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Summary: One of the 10 gretest science fiction books ever written
Review: This book is a classic in that the ideas it expresses have not aged a single bit. Also, the book covers universal themse that will remain throughout eternity. Themes such as revenge, love hate draw us into the story, whose relentless pace never lets us go for a single moment. Few have heard of this story but this as well as Bester's other woks have inspired many of the science fiction writers of today. The cyberpunk sci-fi books share remarkable characteristics to Bester's books. Authors like Samuel Delany, Joe Haldeman and many others have named it as one of the top ten sci-fi books and have drawn inspiration from it, but we , the readers can also draw inspiration from Foyle's struggles to break free and his struggle to survive.
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Summary: One of the only books I have ever read more than once.
Review: Although I wasn't around to read this book when it first entered the world of sf I still beleive it is the best sf book my young life has yet to run across. The book still grips the reader, how ever old he or she may be, is an iron fist as one reads of the times and tribulations of the non-fairytale hero, Gully Foyle. I would recomend to anyone and everyone, Bester's best.
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Summary: Is it one of the best of all time?
Review: I have begun to read science fiction and fantasy books again after a couple year layoff. I have been attracked to the "classics" and recently I have read two books that were billed as "arguably the best science fiction books ever". The books were: 1. A Canticle for Leibowitz and 2. The Stars My Destination The Stars My Destination is one of the most imaginative stories I have ever read. It did not leave me with the haunting thoughts that "Canticle" did, but it did thoroughly entertain and capture my interest/enthusiasm. I will definately look for more "Bester" books. And for the answer to my question above... Yes, it is "one of the best science fiction books ever written".
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