Written: Wednesday. April 15, 2020.
Books:
- The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke = 8 Pesos.
- Slipt by Alan Dean Foster = 8 Pesos.
- Quozl by Alan Dean Foster = 8 Pesos.
Date of Purchase: April 12, 2019.
This was the time when I think I started trying to find more Alan Dean Foster books. Or just retro sci-fi novels in general. Cause there were a lot of those being sold for 8-45 pesos in Chapters & Pages (Fishermall). So, these were moments when I still thought they were good to read. They're an acquired taste, for sure. But most times, it's difficult to appreciate old sci-fi novels, cause of various reasons: writing-style, outdated theories, one-dimensional characters, too much focus on the idea or the plot, too much preaching of the author who's writing it, often sounding like they're just venting out their ideologies or beliefs, which makes for a hard story to read without always seeing the or hearing the voice of the writer, rather than the characters of the story.
The Songs of Distant Earth was something I picked up, cause I wanted to read more from Arthur C. Clarke. Which turned out to be a mistake, cause the writing style for this was just too bland, and there were too much going on which required a little bit too much of thinking to understand what was happening.
I bought Slipt cause it was an Alan Dean Foster novel. Also because it was about telekinesis. I've read it, and it was okay. Definitely a more serious story than Glory Lane, which was the book I read from Alan Dean Foster before reading Slipt, which had a very John Hughes coming-of-age sci-fi story that had a lot of comedic moments to it. So going from that to reading Slipt was a jump of genres, almost. Both were sci-fi, but it felt like I was reading two different writers...
Quozl, didn't attempt to read after not understanding anything of the first chapter. It felt hard to read because of the weird names of the Quozl people. So I put it down...
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