5/19/2023 0 Comments Holy fire sterling![]() ![]() Second, there’s just no there there (by which I mean, it doesn’t teach me anything about the human condition).įrom essentially page one I just didn’t buy the premise. But my problem with it boils down to two things. I agreed with most of those: that Sterling’s characters don’t face any consequences for their actions that his description of the oddity of the future world he envisions appears to be what he really cares about but it ends up being just distracting that in the socialist society he portrays (where the characters don’t appear to be reasonably or philosophically opposed to the status quo) there is little to motivate their behavior, etc. ![]() I’ve read a few reviews of this book (which I don’t tend to do unless I really love or really hate a book) and most were glowing but a few were more grounded. It’s possible that I didn’t read far enough to see what makes this book something that deserves what appears to be almost universal approval, but I’m going to tell you what I thought of it anyway. I put down Holy Fire (about five sevenths of the way through). I very rarely put down a book before I finish it, but when I do it’s usually a book that I’ve been reading for more than a month at a rate of just a few pages a day only at times when I have a choice between reading the book or doing absolutely nothing. ![]()
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