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Alessandro Dante Petaccia

 
Helpful votes received on reviews: 72% (13 of 18)
 

Reviews

Top Reviewer Ranking: 878,356 - Total Helpful Votes: 13 of 18
Empty Space: A Haunting (Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy 3&hellip by M. John Harrison
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't quite get it., 26 Aug 2012
The good: it is exceptionally well-written. I mean, Harrison's prose is fantastic, and I found myself re-reading entire pages not because of the story, not because something was happening, but just for the sheer pleasure of it. The story itself is incredibly complex on one level and pretty straightforward on another - you could say that while there's a lot going on, in fact there's an almost... minimalist feel to the whole thing, which is also rather pleasant.

But this is where it becomes (for me, at least) difficult: after a little while I realised that I didn't care at all about the story. Or the characters. Or their entire bent universe, for that matter, because all the… Read more
The Departure (Owner Novel 1) by Neal Asher
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars No, but seriously..., 5 Jan 2012
OK, so it's -apparently- right-winged. But hey, Van Vogt was right-winged (and, if memory serves, a scientology buff as well) and I still enjoy reading his Non-A novels... whose main character is strangely similar to this Owner chap, come to think of it. But I digress.
It -again, apparently- portrays the EU of the future as a totalitarian regime blah blah, we've seen it all before, and for a strong EU supporter such as myself that might be slightly, I don't know... off-putting? But frankly no, it isn't; because if that were enough to put me off a book I might as well stop reading altogether - take Asher's Polity books, where there's a not-so-subtle pro-death penalty message; I still… Read more
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