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Easy Travel to Other Planets
by
Ted Mooney (Goodreads Author)
Paperback, 278 pages
Published
December 31st 2003
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(first published 1981)
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Unless you really like post-modernism (for the record, I don't particularly, which will explain much of this review), Ted Mooney's debut novel is somewhat skippable. While Mooney is a capable writer and the plot of Easy Travel is more than alright, the novel is simply drenched in post-modern stylistic touches. From the abrupt and often disorienting changes of setting to the ridiculously in depth discussions of dolphin mythology and psychology, Easy Travel to Other Planets occasionally feels a ...more
I'd have given this book 4 stars, but the ending struck me as all wrong. Even though the book's dated in a lot of ways it was still lovely, interesting to read, well written, intriguing. I don't want to give anything away, but did anyone else find what happened at the end completely out of character for our heroine? Was she having a psychotic break? Did she think she was doing Peter a favor? I understand her emotions were heavily burdened but for gods sake, she's a scientist. What the hell? It w...more
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Maybe I'm just hopelessly unenlightened but ... this is not a hauntingly erotic story about a young woman and a dolphin, as a Time magazine reviewer claimed. It's just squicktastic. Well, that scene is. And other parts are just ... kind of depressing. The information sickness plotline seems like it's probably cool. But I couldn't wade through everything else to get to that.
This is a fascinating, though sometimes difficult book, to read. I was intrigued by the tone, texture, and mood of the society that Mooney created (the book was written quite a while ago, so it is somewhat dated, but if you get past that, it's great!). The ending, however, left me very depressed.
Well, it opens with a graphic scene of hot girl-dolphin sex. You don't get that in a lot of National Book Award winners.
But it goes on to discuss love, the way information swamps and shapes us, and what the core elements of human-ness are.
A strange and sad and lovely book.
But it goes on to discuss love, the way information swamps and shapes us, and what the core elements of human-ness are.
A strange and sad and lovely book.
This is a wacky, interesting book. Read it a long time ago, but still remember it fondly.
About the eighties in New York.
PATTY K.
Okay, I read this thirty years ago, but I still remember it fondly. It was prescient in that it was a futuristic book in which people suffered from 'information sickness.' I loved it so much that I remember it now. I know you can find it on amazon.
i learned to love and accept everything that happens deep in the subconscious.
Incredible.
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