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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu

Start date: January 31, 2012

Finish date: February 8, 2012

Why we're reading this: Trying to remedy the severe lack of science fiction in my reading life.
[close] Trying to remedy the severe lack of science fiction in my reading life.

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Jul 20, 2011 Kevin Xu rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book was kind of intresting, not being the typical fiction, having the author as a the main character as he is trying to find his father. Along with that this is a big satire book in the manner of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy style. Overal, this is a book that is not for everybody. ...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Nina rated it liked it

It was just odd. I liked it because it was so odd. I liked it in spite of the main story arc being a son looking for a lost father, a storyline that I can't say I find particularly moving. There were some amusing jokes sporadically through the book though from time to time the sarcastic and depressed narrator gets tiresome. ...more

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