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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 7070724" data-attributes="member: 46713"><p>I'm about halfway into 'Light' by M. John Harrison, first published in 2002. It's now considered the first part in the 'Kefahuchi tract trilogy'.</p><p></p><p>So far, I completely dislike it. I absolutely don't get why it received such praise. The 'science' part is effectively nothing but a bit of 'term-dropping', here and there.</p><p>It gives me some idea why there are people who dislike a novel based on the number of 'f'-words that are used in it; something that doesn't bother me in the least.</p><p>However, this novel features 'sexual intercourse' on about every other page (the author even invents an alien race that seems to find it difficult to engage in anything else for a prolonged time), and this does bother me a bit, mostly because I'd much rather read a novel about science or at least a somewhat coherent story.</p><p></p><p>There's three equally incomprehensible 'storylines': one set in the current time and two set in the (far?) future. Neither features any likeable characters (well, the protagonists are a paranoid serial-killer, an erratic casual killer, and an addict-turned-killer...).</p><p></p><p>About the only thing I found interesting was a discovery that is hinted at in the beginning of the modern-day storyline: while attempting to build a quantum computer, a scientist stumbles over something that looks like an explosion of fractals and incites an interesting reaction in their cats. Unfortunately, it takes half a novel until it's picked up again only to be dismissed as a 'glitch' (at least initially). Yeah, well, need I say more?</p><p></p><p>At this point I consider it highly unlikely I'll bother to read the other two installments in this 'trilogy'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 7070724, member: 46713"] I'm about halfway into 'Light' by M. John Harrison, first published in 2002. It's now considered the first part in the 'Kefahuchi tract trilogy'. So far, I completely dislike it. I absolutely don't get why it received such praise. The 'science' part is effectively nothing but a bit of 'term-dropping', here and there. It gives me some idea why there are people who dislike a novel based on the number of 'f'-words that are used in it; something that doesn't bother me in the least. However, this novel features 'sexual intercourse' on about every other page (the author even invents an alien race that seems to find it difficult to engage in anything else for a prolonged time), and this does bother me a bit, mostly because I'd much rather read a novel about science or at least a somewhat coherent story. There's three equally incomprehensible 'storylines': one set in the current time and two set in the (far?) future. Neither features any likeable characters (well, the protagonists are a paranoid serial-killer, an erratic casual killer, and an addict-turned-killer...). About the only thing I found interesting was a discovery that is hinted at in the beginning of the modern-day storyline: while attempting to build a quantum computer, a scientist stumbles over something that looks like an explosion of fractals and incites an interesting reaction in their cats. Unfortunately, it takes half a novel until it's picked up again only to be dismissed as a 'glitch' (at least initially). Yeah, well, need I say more? At this point I consider it highly unlikely I'll bother to read the other two installments in this 'trilogy'. [/QUOTE]
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