Schnaucl's review
Mathematicians in Love
by Rudy Rucker
You know, I completely agree with your review of this novel, but I kept asking myself if there was some sort of higher math conceit that I was missing. Rucker can write like a ninja, and he loves his characters. It just seems to me that maybe he had some sort of pet equation that he was fond of, and he just let it go.
Schnaucl's review
Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
Schnaucl's review
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library,
read_2007,
science-fiction
Warning: review contains minor spoilers.
It turned out to be a different book than I'd expected. I get the impression this may be due to a lack of familiarity with Rudy Rucker's work. I had hoped it would be a more serious scifi novel instead of something closer to a novel by Christopher Moore (whom I love, but I go in expecting that kind of story).
There were some thinly veiled critiques of the Bush Administration as well as the Democratic party. Nothing really insightful, but okay.
The thing that really bothered me was how poorly the main female character was written. The two main male characters are supposed to be fighting over this woman and I have no idea why. It's mentioned a few times that she's beautiful, and she's willing to sleep with them, which is something, I guess. But she sleeps with Bela, then immediately wants to move in and expects him to g...more
It turned out to be a different book than I'd expected. I get the impression this may be due to a lack of familiarity with Rudy Rucker's work. I had hoped it would be a more serious scifi novel instead of something closer to a novel by Christopher Moore (whom I love, but I go in expecting that kind of story).
There were some thinly veiled critiques of the Bush Administration as well as the Democratic party. Nothing really insightful, but okay.
The thing that really bothered me was how poorly the main female character was written. The two main male characters are supposed to be fighting over this woman and I have no idea why. It's mentioned a few times that she's beautiful, and she's willing to sleep with them, which is something, I guess. But she sleeps with Bela, then immediately wants to move in and expects him to g...more
You know, I completely agree with your review of this novel, but I kept asking myself if there was some sort of higher math conceit that I was missing. Rucker can write like a ninja, and he loves his characters. It just seems to me that maybe he had some sort of pet equation that he was fond of, and he just let it go.