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Lädt ... Cowboys & Aliensvon Joan D. Vinge
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Science Fiction I obviously wasn't looking for a serious read when I picked this book up to listen to. I thought it might be silly and fun, and since I never saw the movie, I'd at least know the plot then. The problem is that I didn't realize that it is a novel based on the screenplay for the movie, as opposed to the book the screenplay is based on. Thus, it reads just as a movie would play out and any of the additional depth that makes a book preferable to the screen is missing. While I the occasional shadows of important themes pop up, not a single one is ever explored or expanded on. The book is action-packed, but not much else. All-in-all, there wasn't much to recommend it. At least the movie had some cool actors in it; all this had was an overly breathy, over-acted voice. (I had an audio edition.) Meh I read this, as i did "Return to Oz", because I like Vinge's writing and there's not enough of it! And while I'm not sorry I read these, They are not as good as her original works. As a novelization, I think this is the better of the two. It did read more like a novel than a novelization, and gave a lot of background and context that I think would have been impossible in the movie. (Note: I have not seen the movie, nor do I plan to.) If one is a fan of the movie, I think this would be an excellent read that would increase the appreciation. However, as a novel in and of itself, it's a bit heavy-handed, especially in terms of plot. Plus, I still cannot see how it makes sense for aliens to come all the way here for basic resources, when they can- with their advanced tech- just MAKE whatever they need. Most Earth lifeforms have a innate policy of doing as little as possible to get the results they want; I can see why this would be selected for; and I do not see why aliens would follow a wildly different, more complex, and far more fragile evolutionary path. But hey- it's most a plot in which Humans Triumph and Virtue Is Rewarded, not actual science fiction; more a morality play with sf garnishes. Comment I'm not sure why Vinge, a good writer, agreed to novelize this. It's an uphill slog. The history appears to be that there was a 1980's screenplay, which was turned into a graphic novel, and then again into a graphic novel, and then a screenplay and film (with multiple writers), and then a novelization. I haven't seen the graphic novels or the movie, so I only have the novel to go on, and that novel is formulaic and boring. This is not at all what I expect from Vinge, so I have to assume that a big part of the problem is that she's stuck with having to be true to the movie (and possibly to previous incarnations of the story) rather than getting to add her own changes and interpretations. Here's the thing: No good explanation is given for Jake's shackle/bracelet. The story as novelized is humorless and pretty boring. I assume Vinge was going for a "standard Western novel" feel, but instead created poor genre fiction. The fights are particularly badly rendered in wordy, non-urgent prose. In dialogue, what may be intended as laconic is instead flat. Again, she was probably stuck with the movie script's dialogue and action, which are not great even when read in a loud and pressured delivery by the audiobook's narrator. IMDB has identified a number of anachronisms in the film that also appear in the book. These include the use of cardboard matchboxes and the name of the town now called Puerto Vallarta. To this I add that Vinge's use of the word "actinic," which, while accurately descriptive, seems like a jump from a character-centered limited-omniscient narration to an authorial one. "Actinic" was in use at the time (1844, says the OED), but I doubt it would be in Jake's or most other characters' vocabulary or conceptual/educational experience. This criticism highlights a writing problem that belongs to Vinge: Point of view shifts inconsistently between characters, sometimes confusingly. This detracts from whatever capacity the reader has to remain at the level of the story rather than needing to back up to figure out when and where the perspective shifted. This story needs all the breaks it can get, so it is not served by jumps in narrative stance. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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